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...s her; how had he offended her? If he had introduced him- self to her, had forced himself upon her, she could not be more lofty, more reserved. “I tho... ...a fraction of a month too long, and when the time came that the three were forced to take profits, they found that they were unable to close out their... ...urhood as the carriage turned north from out Jackson Street into La Salle, forced itself upon her attention. She uttered an exclamation. The office bu... ...e- pressed emotion and long-restrained anger, that like an actual physical force had swept them out of the house. At the same moment Laura, thrown acr... ..., fine-fibred young boy so earnestly in love with her, very sweet that the lifting of her finger, the mere tremble of her eyelid should so perturb him... ...stence and vehemence of veritable attack. Landry she could manage with the lifting of a finger, Corthell dis- turbed her only upon those rare occasion... ...nt to be married, after all. I thought when love came it was to be—oh, up- lifting, something glorious like Juliet’s love or Marguerite’s. Something t... ...into the eyes of a woman who really under- stands.’” “Did he?” said Laura, lifting her eyebrows. “Yes, and he seemed so fine and earnest. Laura, wh—” ... ...mething keeps it from going below a certain point, and it is left to us to lift it higher and higher. No, the type can’t be bad. Of course the type is...

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...named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the formidable power tha... ...ainst the enter- prising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his rein- forcements, with an army but little superior in numbers. But under the infl... ...hat I have told you our guide is now a Mohawk, and that he serves with our forces as a friend.” “And I tell you that he who is born a Mingo will die a... ...an be no enemy to dread.” The scout regarded Heyward in surprise, and then lifting his cap, he answered, in a tone less confident than before—though s... ... was fore- ordained to become a prey to ravenous beasts!” Then, sud- denly lifting up his voice, amid the eternal din of the waters, he sang aloud: “F... ...nd determined, though wild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself on their notice. They felt it might be a being partially be- ... ...d them, with the assurance it was only their attendant, Chingachgook, who, lifting another blanket, discovered that the cavern had two outlets. Then, ... ... be quick.” By this time Duncan was thoroughly awake, and he immedi- ately lifted the shawl from the sleeping females. The motion caused Cora to raise... ...se! or the hair will be off your crown in the turning of a knife!” Heyward lifted his head from the cover, and beheld what he justly considered a prod...

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...n bringing him home with him, and old Mrs. Meadows and her daughter almost forced him to accept the invitation.’ ‘They little guessed what the Colonel... ... Gilbert’s countenance—Sophy must have something deep and noble in her. He lifted his head to look at her bright face, and said, ‘They are very much o... ...ould you like to hear all about it, mamma?’ It was Albinia’s great wish to lift that dark veil, and Lucy began, with as much seriousness and sadness a... ...cause, and sat perplexing herself whether it were worse to give way, or to force the girls to read Holy Scripture in such a mood. 30 Yo n g e Lucy ca... ...ttle and slight, a mere doll in proportion to her great husband, who could lift her as easily and tenderly as a baby, paying her a sort of rev- erenti... ... unresisting victim. Mel- ancholy was in his nature, his indolence gave it force, and his habits were almost ineffaceable, and they were habits of qui... ...s chilled hands before she spoke. ‘Yes, Gilbert, I don’t wonder you cannot lift up your head while so much is on your mind.’ Gilbert started and hid h... ...tter to confess it yourself.’ For this, however, Gilbert seemed to have no force; he cried piteously, bewailed himself, vowed incoherently that he wou... ... to interpose her arm between Maurice’s head and the sharp corner. She was lifted up at once, in the horror of seeing him neither cry nor move, for, i...

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...use, during which the sheets rustled spasmodi- cally between his hands, he lifted his head to say abruptly, “Have you any idea how long?” Mary had sun... ...notion of an authority on hot-house boilers. The new-comer, on seeing her, lifted his hat, and paused with the air of a gentleman—perhaps a traveler—d... ...u now. Will you give me a message, or come back later?” The visitor, again lifting his hat, briefly replied that he would come back later, and walked ... ...she asked. Trimmle seemed to surrender herself to a last struggle with the forces of chaos. “No, Madam. He just went out with the gentleman.” “The gen... ...ight, yet don’t say it was straight. It was business.” Mary, at the words, lifted her head with a start, and looked intently at the speaker. When, hal... ...d tension. “But if you knew all this,” she began at length, hardly able to force her voice above a whisper, “how is it that when I wrote you at the ti... ...er eyes, shrinking from the glar- ing head-lines, “Widow of Boyne’s Victim Forced to Appeal for Aid,” ran down the column of text to two portraits ins... ...nd it was the portrait of the man who had spoken to her in the garden. She lifted her head and looked slowly about the library. The library could have... ...is soul more clearly than his face) drew her toward him with an invincible force. “Are you really he?” she murmured. “I am he,” he answered. She laid ...

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...d royally utter commands that were good stuff to laugh at, he was very entertaining; but when weari- ness finally forced him to be silent, he was no l... ...l upon his ear, his face blanched, and he dropped as instantly upon his knees as if a shot had brought him there. Lifting up his hands, he exclaimed— ... ...proper and unprincely thing. At that moment the muscles of his nose began to twitch, and the end of that organ to lift and wrinkle. This con- tinued, ... ...ng nose was pleading more urgently than ever for relief. At last nature broke down the barriers of etiquette: Tom lifted up an inward prayer for pardo... ...ey humbly wait his majesty’s further pleasure in the matter.” The King’s face lit up with a fierce joy. Said he— “Lift me up! In mine own person will ... ...orgot it. Name thy name. Who art thou?” The insulted blood mounted to the little prince’s cheek once more, and he lifted a steady and indignant gaze t... ...ught more to say.” “We will see, as to that!” exclaimed John Canty, strid- ing past Hendon to get at the boy; “by force shall he—” “If thou do but tou... ...e circumstance that solemn weight which is its due, see- ing it was foretold.” This was an argument of tremendous force in that superstitious day. Tom... ...red— “London is better than the country, and safer, these late years, the laws be so bitter and so diligently en- forced. An’ I had not had that accid...

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... pass the cup to your friend that he may do so also. I doubt not that he too lifts his hands in prayer, for man cannot live without God in the world. ... ... after all, and pay these scoundrels in full, either single handed or with a force of Achaeans behind him? If Minerva were to take as great a liking t... ...ice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with de light. Then they lifted the heifer’s head from off the ground, and Pisistratus cut her thr... ...g of sheer home sickness; for he had got tired of Calypso, and though he was forced to sleep with her in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that w... ..., and he was car ried overboard a long way off. He let go the helm, and the force of the hurricane was so great that it broke the mast half way up, a... ... I cannot climb out for want of foot hold. I am afraid some great wave will lift me off my legs and dash me against the rocks as I leave the water—wh... ...me.” While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him and took him with such force against the rocks that he would have been smashed and torn to piece... ...row , and entrails, without leaving anything uneaten. As for us, we wept and lifted up our hands to heaven on seeing such a horrid sight, for we did n... ... told the men to cast lots which of them should venture along with myself to lift it and bore it into the monster’s eye while he was asleep. The lot f...

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...reign salve to do a goddess good: Being so enrag’d, desire doth lend her force Courageously to pluck him from his horse. Over one arm the lusty co... ...ty in his angry eyes; Rain added to a river that is rank Perforce will force it overflow the bank. Still she entreets, and prettily entreats, For ... ...ight, and will aspire. 8 "Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me; T wo strengthless doves wil... ...n his ears a heavy tale, As if they heard the woeful words she told; She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes, Where, lo! two lamps, burnt ou...

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...till alive, and between the bar- ber-surgeon and the porter’s wife she was lifted up, and car- ried to a bed, the Countess Alice keeping close to her,... ...t them, madam,” said Lady Whitburn. “Now, the least that can be done is to force yonder malapert lad and his father into keeping his contract to her, ... ..., madam,” quietly said Salisbury. “But you are in your own Castle, and can force him to keep faith. No contract, forsooth! I hate your mincing South C... ...Lady Salisbury, with the Mother of the Maids, did their best to lessen the force of the jolts as by six stout horses it was dragged over the chalk roa... ...lain Mother Anne than the very beautiful young Sister Isabel, who had been forced into the convent by her tyrannical brother, and wore out her life in... ...do with the maid?” “Send her away, the loathly thing,” reiterated the boy, lifting up his head from his father’s shoulder for another glimpse, which p... ...was shown the little imp, and next time, when he was not so distraught, he lifted up his hands and said he wotted nought of the matter. Hap what hap, ... ...n Durham County.” He dragged rather than led his daughter to the door, and lifted her passively to the pillion seat behind Cuthbert Rid- ley. A fine h... ... his heavy eyes at the stranger, who felt his pulse, and asked to have him lifted up for better examination. There was at first a dismal little whine ...

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...-children, and had been so audacious and uncontrollable, that she had been forced to return him to his uncle and aunt in the “Bush.” Eustace had been ... ...ran between Harold’s knees, and there tossed her head and glared at me. He lifted her on his lap, and she drew his arm round her in defence. Eustace s... ...e woman fan- cied she had offended him and apologised, so that he had been forced to look back again and say, “Never mind,” and “No harm done,” with a... ...s fit for neither. Harold, I believe, now en- 31 Charlotte M. Yonge forced the threat, and when he went away, left her a black silk necktie to ... ...ll but strength and stature, and ungovernable in proportion to the growing forces within him. Of course she accepted him, with his grand physical ad- ... ...awn out. He revived as the night air blew on his face, looked up as Harold lifted him, said, “I have it,” and fainted the next moment. They had taken ... ...a stone round Eustace’s neck.” “Why should you feel so? You are a lever to lift him.” “Am I? The longer I live with you, the more true it seems to me ... ... It must be all a calumny. I wish we had never believed it. He could never lift a hand against anyone. We will contradict all rumours. Report is so sc... ...int, or mentioned the increase of her rent, and on her hesitation actually lifting his large heavy stick. We both cried out and sprang forward, though...

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...f the readers of planets.’ Now, when Shibli Bagarag had so deliberated, he lifted his sight, and lo, the old woman was no longer before him! He stared... ...tted beside him, and said, ‘O youth, thou hast been thwacked!’ He groaned, lifting not his face, nor saying aught. Then said she, ‘Art thou truly in s... ...f the Lake; old, wise, powerful; of the brood of the sacred mountain, that lifteth by day a peak of gold, and by night a point of solitary silver. In ... ...mare. Then she stooped to the body of her betrothed, and toiled with it to lift it across the crimson saddle-cloth that was on the back of Zoora; and ... ... answered nothing he dismounted, and thrust his arm softly beneath her and lifted her gently; and her swoon had the whiteness of death, so that he tho... ...arce had she called Almeryl to her, when the outer door of their house was forced, and she shrieked to him, ‘’Tis thou they come for: fly, O my Prince... ...as the dark Vizier Aswarak, and certain officers of the night watch with a force. The Vi- zier cried when he saw them, ‘I accuse thee, Prince Almeryl,... ...fell upon the King en- camped in the Desert, with the loose remnant of his forces. Mashalleed, when he had looked on her, forgot his afflic- tion, and... ...g trav- elled across her countenance, withering its beauty: she cried in a forced voice, ‘Aha! it is well, O youth, for thee and for me that thou love...

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... a broad blue-flecked trail. Dr. Spencer was asleep, hat off, and the wind lifting his snowy locks, and she wished the others were; but Aubrey lamente... ...so inad- equately perched, and made so forlorn a spectacle, that they were forced to put him indoors out of the glare of sea and sky, and hoping that ... ...nctilio broke down the next morning; and in the midst of breakfast, he was forced to lie down, and allow Ethel to bathe his face with vinegar and wate... ...d of the waves, but they are pretty and endearing while they last in their force and sin- cerity. “Just at the age ‘twixt boy and youth, ... ...er, his education had not been of the same order, and he had not the manly force of character that makes up for everything in a 85 Yo n g e woman’s e... ...t a huge chest appeared out of the darkness, bearing the same letters, and lifted on a truck by the joint strength of a green porter, and a pair of br... ...mid anxious figure that alone was allowed to appear in the hall, ‘Come and lift him out, Mary.’ The drawing-room was a goodly sight that evening; and ... ...re, not necessarily from him. As long as he is what he is now, I would not lift a finger to keep you from him. Have I ever done so, Aubrey?’ ‘No, papa... ...of Axworthy was unceasingly fixed on an inkstand upon the table, and never lifted, his expression never varied; and Leonard’s glance flashed inquiring...

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...d the book, ‘O noble heart who, being strait-besieged By this wild king to force her to his wish, Nor bent, nor broke, nor shunned a soldier’s death, ... ...med as lost— Her stature more than mortal in the burst Of sunrise, her arm lifted, eyes on fire— Brake with a blast of trumpets from the gate, And, fa... ...e forms Makes noble through the sensuous organism That which is higher. O lift your natures up: Embrace our aims: work out your freedom. Girls, Kno... ... Cyril, and yawning ‘O hard task,’ he cried; ‘No fighting shadows here! I forced a way Through opposition crabbed and gnarled. Better to clear prime ... ... self, nor shun to do it, Being other—since we learnt our meaning here, To lift the woman’s fallen divinity Upon an even pedestal with man.’ She pause... ...one that loved us.’ ‘Y ea,’ She answered, ‘or with fair philosophies That lift the fancy; for indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysia... ... have dashed The passion of the prophetess; for song Is duer unto freedom, force and growth Of spirit than to junketing and love. Love is it? Would t... ...length The garden portals. Two great statues, Art And Science, Caryatids, lifted up A weight of emblem, and betwixt were valves Of open-work in which... ...at prated peace, when first I heard War-music, felt the blind wildbeast of force, Whose home is in the sinews of a man, Stir in me as to strike: then...

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...ning her footing she cried out: “Oh, dear, oh, dear! It’s in ribbons!” Her lifted face, fresh and flushed in the driving rain, woke in him a memory of... ...in the past tense.” She seemed to droop a little at the allusion; then she lifted her chin with a jerk of defiance. “Y es. All is at an end between us... ...e’s glass, after all!” She launched the closing words at him on a cry that lifted them above the petulance of vanity; but his sense of her words was l... ...hat he guessed to be a confused and tormented mood, rose from his seat and lifted her jacket from the chair- back on which she had hung it to dry. As ... ...mpartment, broke Miss Viner’s sleep, and without changing her position she lifted her lids and looked at Darrow. There was neither surprise nor bewild... ...e had marvelled at was like the unnatural whiteness of 21 Wharton flowers forced in the dark. As he looked back at their few days together he saw tha... ...on something.” Darrow saw that the reality of the situation had sud- denly forced itself upon her. “I must decide on some- thing,” she repeated. He wo... ...d by being thought over; and by the perversity of circumstance he had been forced into the unwill- ing contemplation of its every aspect... His cigar ... ...g room. He sat motionless, without opening his eyes; but now another sight forced itself under his lowered lids. It was the precise photographic pictu...

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...ribed with a minuteness for which the author has no other apology than the force of his own recollections. Otsego is said to be a word compounded of O... ...which he took a small piece of greased leather and, wrapping a bail in it, forced them down by main strength on the powder, where he con- tinued to po... ...tim, Natty drew his trigger, and the partridge fell from its height with a force that buried it in the snow. “Lie down, you old villain,” exclaimed Le... ...recaution to remove the whole of his effects beyond the reach of the royal forces, including the papers of his friend also. There he con- tinued servi... ...o pay to five-and-forty . Monsieur Le Quoi, I am your servant. Mr. Grant,” lifting his cap, “I feel indebted to your attention. Gentlemen, I make you ... ...n supplying with fuel. They paused only to gaze at the passing sleighs, to lift their caps to Marmaduke, to exchange familiar nods with Richard, and e... ...ind in the youth himself. On entering the apart- ment, be had mechanically lifted his cap, and exposed a head covered with hair that rivalled, in colo... ...ort induced his com- panion to follow. Drawing her arm through his own, he lifted his cap from his head, allowing the dark locks to flow in rich curls... ...knees and pray, like Moses of old, with a flanker to the right and left to lift his hands to heaven,” returned her husband, who com- posedly performed...

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...Hand bearing the sword. The granite steps are now disjointed, grasses have forced their way with little flow- ers and mosses through the fissures betw... ...gratitude to the king, the baron sustained a siege at Guerande against the forces of Gen- eral T ravot. He refused to surrender the fortress, and when... ... ber of games and when the hour grew late, these excellent people would be forced to separate without either loss or gain, but not without emotion. On... ...velop- ment of their sons into superior men, true mothers do not like this forced abdication; they would rather keep their chil- dren small and still ... ...sand francs a year to invest. At twenty- one years of age a girl with such force of will is the equal of a man of thirty. Her mind had taken a wide ra... ...to despair, and he dares not commit some debauch in this house which might lift for a moment the burden of his ennui. Alas! my love is not real enough... ...f thirty who is obliged to cover hers. 126 Balzac Look, dear,” she added, lifting her curls, “see what that jour- ney to Italy has cost me.” Her temp... ...em; it begins an abnegation which ends by either plunging them to hell, or lifting them to heaven. During breakfast, which Calyste was invited to shar...

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...e exact opposite of themselves in an identi- cally similar situation, that forced a resemblance. T ouching the old game, Cuper’s fold was a healthy sc... ...p to the moment of her nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a thro... ...some- thing like the tight band—call it corset—over the chest, try- ing to lift and stretch for draughts of air. But Browny’s feel- ing naturally was,... ...rticularly good an example. Lawyers hear next to everything. I am told she lifted her horsewhip on a gentleman once, and then put her horse at him and... ...w ambitions to become a schoolmaster, was behind the screen unlikely to be lifted again by a woman valu- ing her pride of youth, though he had—behold ... ... from his chair, paced some steps, with bent head, came back thoughtfully, lifted the manuscript sheets for an- other examination. Then he stooped to ... ... brought it to this crisis, he magnanimously proposed to the Fair Enemy he forced her to be, and liked to picture her as being, a month in Paris. Amin... ... if the civilians. I have heard Mr. Morsfield tell that he is ‘de premiere force.’ Be on your guard. You are to know that I never forget a service, an... ...o be a good girl, for a change, if Lady de Culme will do the chaperon, and force Lord Ormont’s hand. My brother shrugs. There’ll be a nice explosion o...

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...ns, will infallibly react on Parisian manners and morals. We shall soon be forced to live more without than within. Our sacred private life, the freed... ...ity of a position formerly his lowest hope, when the events of July, 1830, forced him to resign it. He calcu- lated, shrewdly enough, that his pension... ...moving spirit of her brother’s household; she was not without decision and force of character, as the following history will show. This superiority ov... ...generation which occupies the middle of the nineteenth century. Thuillier, forced to make himself noticeable by other charms than those of mind, learn... ...of Olivier Vinet, raised his voice eagerly, in a political discussion, and forced the young magistrate to follow his example in the vivacious ar- gume... .... But this wine, you know, ought to be im- proved; by infusing these” (and lifting one of the covers of the basket he slipped in the poppies) “you’ll ... ...n; and, without the robust assistance of Mere Cardinal he could never have lifted what might almost be called the corpse of the former drum-major. Com... ...succeed he must have the courage to make sacrifices. Once married, you can lift your head.” “Ah, yes!” said la Peyrade with a sigh, “I’ll lift it; for... ...oon.” Hearing that name, and remembering the promise Felix had made her to lift her to the skies, which, as he said it, she had fancied a sign of madn...

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...s they followed. In- deed, this was a new T urkey—a haughty, angular, nose-lifted Turkey—whom they accompanied through a shrubbery on to a lawn, where... ...rgeant,” shouted King. Evidently the Sergeant had surrendered to the major force. Beetle lay at full length on the turf behind the Lodge, liter- ally ... ... sir?” said McT urk to his house-master, dis- regarding King. This at once lifted the situation to its loftiest plane. Moreover, it meant no work, for... ...hanging in the balance. I see! Ah, I see! The old gang of criminals—allied forces of disorder—Corkran”—the Slave of the Lamp smiled po- litely—”McT ur... ...n it. Beetle never knew he had a watch. Oh, I say, Rabbits-Eggs gave me a lift into Bideford this afternoon.” Rabbits-Eggs was the local carrier—an o... ... in the door than the lid of the coal-box, which was also the window-seat, lifted cau- tiously. It had been a tight fit, even for the lithe Stalky, hi... ... a cat. Then did Beetle see the inner meaning of what had gone before, and lifted up his voice in thanksgiving for that the world held warriors so wis... ... “Ha! I said it would come to that,” murmured the Rever- end John. “—I was forced to send them back. Their moral influence was unspeakable—simply unsp... ...ond me.” “If you asked me I should say seek not to propitiate. When one is forced to take crammers’ pups—” “He was perfectly well at extra-tuition—wit...

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...es of Satan to come on, and it was hard to tell which he really meant, the forces of sin, or the armies of men whom he believed to be fighting on the ... ...eved he was teaching the only way of righteousness, and so his words had a force that went home to people’s hearts as earnestness always does, and Jep... ...ple of big slaty stones bent towards one another over it as a break to the force of the rain. The chil- dren might have been worse off though there wa... ... mat made of the bulrushes 38 Under the Storm that stood up in the brook, lifting their tall, black heads. Straw must serve for their beds till they ... ...trying to gather to- 41 Yo n g e gether his live stock, which he had been forced to leave to take care of themselves. Horse, donkey, and cows were al... ...he winter’s fare, laid up in bran in two great crocks which Stead had been forced to purchase, and which with planks from the half-burnt house laid ov... ...a wild passion of grief, anger, and despair, and when Steadfast would have lifted her up and comforted her, she kicked and fought him away. Pres- entl... ... come over him now and then, was it all for nothing? Would the Church ever lift up her head again? or would Mr. Woodley be always in possession at Elm...

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...quets for the tables of favoured ladies. Why, the very daisies never durst lift their heads on his little lawn, which even bore a French looking- glas... ...me on the evi- dence of your marriage, and, remembering you as he does, he forced the confession of it from the captain, and of his own accord set for... ...er mother. It was well that Mrs. Egremont’s invariable custom was never to lift her eyes from her book or her harmonium, or she surely must have been ... ...she encountered a warn- ing and alarmed glance from her mother, so she was forced to content herself with uttering silent vows of perpetual rec- ollec... ... forgiveness and affection and humility, only I doubt whether there is any force or resolution to hold her own. You smile! Well, perhaps the less of t... ...it was an absolute amazement to Nuttie to find that the same plans were in force as had prevailed when her uncle had come to the living and built that... ...nds were safe, but that they could not be extricated till the carriage was lifted from the hole into which it had sunk amid bricks, stones, and broken... ... the broken bridge. ‘Poor May, you are awfully tired! Shouldn’t you like a lift in their cart?’ ‘Or I could put you up on Robin Hood,’ said Mark. ‘Tha... ...lethwayte,’ said Alice, going towards him; ‘dear old Mrs. Nugent,’ and she lifted up her tear-stained face, which he caressed a little and said, ‘Poor...