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... surmounted the great iron gateway; but they had vanished, either with the family, or at the indications of an approach- ing rust. Rust defiled its ba... ...ut whole pages of a book called the ‘Field of Mars,’ which was next to the family Bible in size among the volumes of the farmer’s small library. The d... ...nces, were assimilated in their minds; and as they looked around them upon millers’, farmers’, maltsters’, and tradesmen’s sons, the thought of what m... ...ung man, calling himself Robert Armstrong, underwent a presentation to the family. He paid the stipulated sum, and was soon enrolled as one of them. H... ...erceive how they resembled bent old beggar-men. The two stone-pines in the miller’s grounds were likened by them to Adam and Eve turning away from the... ...om the abstract. The farmer saw round figures among the possessions of the family, and he assisted mentally in this money-turning of Anthony’s, counte... ...rother-in- law to reflect on it, and to think of him as of a friend of the family, now and in the time to come. Anthony spoke of the seductions of Lon... ...ld trees I used to speak of,” she said, point- ing to the two pines in the miller’s grounds. “They always look like Adam and Eve turning away.” “They ...

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...id, cheerless, and utterly void of elevating in- spirations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had ... ...d work was his early lot. When a mere boy he had to help in supporting the family, either on his father’s clearing, or hired out to other farmers to p... ...ry printed page that fell into his hands he would greedily devour, and his family and friends watched him with wonder, as the un- couth boy, after his... ...al campaign twenty-eight years later. Having come of age, Lincoln left the family, and “struck out for himself.” He had to “take jobs whenever he coul... ...had been entered by one Dixon, deeded by Dixon to Thomas, by Thomas to one Miller, and by Miller to Gen. Adams. The oldest of these three deeds was ab... ...en it was founded in fraud. I discov- ered that in the deed from Thomas to Miller, although Miller’s name stood in a sort of marginal note on the reco... ...mes Adams, the judgment being in favor of said Anderson against one Joseph Miller. Knowing that this judgment had some connection with the land affair... ...er for letter and cross for cross as follows: “Joseph Anderson, vs. Joseph Miller. Judgment in Sangamon Circuit Court against Joseph Miller obtained o... ...Thomas sold it to Anderson; but before he gave a deed, Anderson sold it to Miller, and took Miller’s note for the purchase money. When this note becam...

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...he vouched with particular confidence, alleging indeed that one of her own family had been an eye-witness of the incidents recorded in it. “I tell the... ...ing only that which attends their entrance into the world. We were a large family, of very different disposi- tions and constitutions. Some were dull ... ...lect that this little range of pasturage once belonged to my father (whose family was of some consideration in the world), and was sold by patches to ... ...use of the Earl’s Closes, we still retain a slight hold upon; for, in some family ar- rangements, it had been settled upon Aunt Margaret during the te... ...Upon this frail tenure depends, in a great measure, the last shadow of the family of Bothwell of Earl’s Closes, and their last slight connection with ... ...uld have borne out so ugly a story as that of Pretty Peggy Grindstone, the miller’s daughter at Sillermills—it had well-nigh made work for the Lord Ad...

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...assachusetts, thirty years before this time, he had been a farmer, and the miller Dearborn used to grind his grain regularly. The two had been boys to... ...of those to leave an “abandoned” New England farm behind him, and with his family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in I... ... her two nieces. Pending the installation Laura and Page lived at a little family hotel in the same neighbourhood. The Cresslers’ invitation to join t... ... trunk and putting her clothes away. Her fox terrier, whom the 44 The Pit family, for obscure reasons, called the Pig, arrived in the middle of the a... ...t the Dearborns’ home, she sent her footman in to tell the “girl” that the family would not be home that night. The Cresslers lived hard by on the sam... ...’ve known Curtis Jadwin now for fifteen years—nobody better. He’s as old a family friend as Charlie and I have. I know him like a book. And I tell you... ...ike this right here on the floor. Remember that time when the Northwestern millers sold a hundred and fifty thousand barrels at one lick? The floor wa... ... of note paper. “And,” observed Jadwin after a while, “and you see how the millers up here in the Northwest have been grinding up all the grain in sig...

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...d forward, and knocked down all the animal creation. Consider Noah and his family, like idiotic tobacco-stoppers; and how the leopard stuck to warm li... ... with paste and glue, and gum, and water colours, in the getting-up of The Miller and his Men, and Eliza- beth, or the Exile of Siberia. In spite of a... ...all comes out. He was false to a young housekeeper once at- tached to that family, and famous for her beauty, who drowned herself in a pond, and whose... ...-clock, which, at the midnight hour, strikes thirteen when the head of the family is go- ing to die; or a shadowy, immovable black carriage which at s... ...breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death. And so... ... the real truth is this—because it is, in fact, a story be- longing to our family—and she was a connexion of our family. When she was about forty year...

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... friend must please to look at baby. ‘Ah! You will know the friend of your family better, T ootleums,’ says Mr V eneering, nodding emotionally at that... ...loomy Eugene, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a barrister in the family. We have got a precious one.’ ‘It was forced upon me,’ said Mortimer... ...aid Mortimer, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a solicitor in the family. And we have got a precious one.’ ‘There are four of us, with our na... ...f slack water it got out to sea and drifted away . Chapter 4 THE R. WILFER FAMILY REGINALD WILFER IS A NAME with rather a grand sound, sug- gesting on... ... no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. But, the Reginald Wilfer family were of such common- place extraction and pursuits that their forefa... ...he village cottage by the mill; severely reproved and morally squashed the miller, when she was five and he was fifty; divided her porridge with singi... ...he dealer’s fore-court, nobody seemed to know or to want to know. Like the Miller of questionable jollity in the song, They cared for Nobody, no not t... ... were slack- ening sail, or had left off grinding for the day. The master- millers had already departed, and the journeymen were de- parting. There wa... ...mself leisurely going towards the gate and looking over. ‘No jealous paper-miller? No plea- sures of the chase in this part of the country? Mostly fis...

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...et the cruel preoccupations caused by hidden want, by the daily needs of a family and the daily drudgery of a 5 Balzac printer’s business, which requ... ... her despair. Y oung M. de Rastignac had come to spend a few days with his family. He had spoken of Lucien in terms that set Paris gossip circulating ... ... the child at her breast. So hard is it to give up illusions sanctioned by family feeling, illusions that have grown with our growth, that Eve had dou... ...h! he is my cross, that fellow is, look you! And, unluckily, he is all the family I have, for there is never like to be a later edition. And when he m... ..., always supposing that my husband has no objection.—Hey! little man!” The miller came up, gave Lucien a look over, and took his pipe out of his mouth... ...ks board? You might as well pay nothing at all.” “Perhaps I shall end as a miller’s man,” thought the poet, as his eyes wandered over the lovely count... ... thought the poet, as his eyes wandered over the lovely country . Then the miller’s wife made a bed ready for him, and Lucien lay down and slept so lo... ...g man is dead or alive; he has been lying there these fourteen hours.” The miller was busy spreading out his fishing-nets and lines. “It is my belief,... ...it is very strange that he does not feel hungry and wake up,” retorted the miller’s wife; she had just prepared breakfast for yesterday’s chance guest...

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...ddles reech- oed by the pines, and a glow on black sliding waters. Carol’s family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with Christmas a rite ... ... Her father re- tired from the judiciary when she was eleven, and took the family to Minneapolis. There he died, two years after. Her sister, a busy p... ...akeet in a cage. Two facing seats, overflowing with a Slovene iron-miner’s family, are littered with shoes, dolls, whisky bottles, bundles wrapped in ... ...starched cheap lace revealing a pink marble table with a conch shell and a Family Bible. “You’ll find it old-fashioned—what do you call it?— Mid-Victo... ...“Why did I ever—” She remembered that Kennicott’s mother had brought these family relics from the old home in Lac-qui-Meurt. “Stop it! They’re perfect... ... hated him. He was the one democrat in town. He called both Lyman Cass the miller and the Finn home- steader from Lost Lake by their first names. He w... ...rove about the chain of garden-circled lakes, and viewed the houses of the millers and lumbermen and real estate peers— the potentates of the expandin... ...own you I don’t like to think about fussing with dress-designing. But as a miller, I’d have the means—books, piano, travel.” “I’m going to be frank an... ... bought or sold or mortgaged, the townsmen invited themselves to the feast—millers, real-estate men, lawyers, merchants, and Dr. Will Kennicott. They ...

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...genuity and fine jovial humor. A father, possessor of an enormous nose and family, is surrounded by the latter, who are, some of them, embracing the f... ...he smiling mother 6 George Cruikshank reconciles one with all the hideous family: they have all some- thing of the mother in them—something kind, and... ...We should like to go through every one of these prints. There is the jolly miller, who, returning home at night, calls upon his wife to get him a supp... ...and falls to upon rashers of bacon and ale. How he gormandizes, that jolly miller! rasher after rasher, how they pass away frizzling and, smoking from... ...he next page, and you will see the ferocious, bacon-devouring ruffian of a miller is actually causing this garment to be carried through the village a... ... by the town-crier. And we blush to be obliged to say that the demoralized miller never offered to return the banknotes, al- though he was so mighty s... ... greatest good- will. Let any one look at the noble head of Nelson in the “Family Library,” and they will, we are sure, think with us that the de- sig... .... At the end of these three volumes Mr. Cruikshank’s contributions to the “Family Library” seem sud- denly to have ceased. We are not at all disposed ... ...y figure better than himself; nay, or a portrait of an alderman’s lady and family of children. But look down the list of the paint- ers and tell us wh...

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... very life was a reproach? Put to nurse in the country and forgotten by my family for over three years, I was treated with such indifference on my ret... ...inspired in my schoolmates the same repul- sion that was felt for me by my family, I sank into a horrible distrust of myself. A second fall of snow ch... ...hat I was gloomy, disliked by my comrades, and always alone, confirmed the family ver- 9 Balzac dict as to my sulky temper. As soon as I could read a... ... brains were apt to linger. There I remained eight years without seeing my family; liv- ing the life of a pariah,—partly for the following reason. I r... ...s pronounced worthy of the third class. The sufferings I had endured in my family and in school were continued under another form during my stay at th... ...e “jard,”—a name given to the coarse sand which the Loire brings down; the millers, with their caps over one ear, busily loading their mules,—all thes... ... be clothed, mothers succored in their need, sacks of flour brought to the millers in winter for helpless old men, a cow sent to some poor home,—deeds...

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...pect to study, like every- thing else. He had known in Dresden an American family in which there were three daughters who used to skate with the offic... ... altogether—who completed the group and who was presumably the head of the family. These reflexions would indicate that Count Vogelstein read his volu... ...cited, when she had such a name as that. This young lady managed the whole family, even a little the small beflounced sister, who, with bold pretty in... ...ity, set- tling on the spot most of the questions that could come up for a family from the interior. The voyage was remarkably fine, and day after day... ...n of a young man of the upper class, and that her sister should be a Daisy Miller en herbe. Repeat- edly admonished by Mrs. Dangerfield, the young dip... ... he would be committing himself to some American girl with an im- possible family. In America, when one committed one’s self, there was nothing to do ...

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..., had married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros,... ...shore on the south coast of Aros, in Sandag Bay, where so many dismal things befell our family, as I propose to tell. The thought of all these dangers... ...s ringed adven- turer, but for Mary and myself, and for the good, old, hon- est, kindly family of the Darnaways. CHAPTER III: LAND AND SEA IN SANDAG B... ...im, while all else were posting downward to the unknown world. One evening he asked the miller where the river went. ‘It goes down the valley,’ answer... ...ver our weir, bless its heart!’ ‘And what is the sea?’ asked Will. ‘The sea!’ cried the miller. ‘Lord help us all, it is the greatest thing God made! ... ...he world that lay away down the river, with all its perils and mar- vels, until the old miller became quite interested himself, and at last took him b... ...ll covered his face with his hands, and burst into a violent fit of tears; and the poor miller, sadly disappointed and perplexed, saw nothing better f... ...ething of a superstitious feeling. A time came at last when this was to be changed. The miller, who was a greedy man in his way, and never forewent an... ...e on memories of the past, and now startingly recalled from that tender exercise; happy family parties struck into silence round the table, the mother...

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...poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more ... ...te of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coa... ...sted that Miss Sharp’s stay in Russell Square may not exceed ten days. The family of distinction with whom she is engaged, desire to avail themselves ... ...od parent, child, wife, or husband; who actually does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occ... ...lluded to, but used to state subsequently that the Entrechats were a noble family of Gascony, and took 14 V anity Fair – V olume One great pride in h... ...ore all impudent matches.—What I like best, is for a noble- man to marry a miller’s daughter, as Lord Flowerdale did—it makes all the women so angry —...

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...on, no occasion. All right, Mr. Bintrey. And one and all forming a kind of family! Y ou see, Mr. Bintrey, I was 13 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins... ... two ‘prentices, and the odd men?” “Y es. I hope we shall all be an united family, Joey.” “Ah!” said Joey. “I hope they may be.” “They? Rather say we,... ...dstraw. Mrs. Goldstraw. My husband has been dead many years, and we had no family.” Half-a-dozen questions had scarcely extracted as much to the purpo... ...o live with all the persons in my employment as if they were members of my family. Until that time comes, you will only have me, and the new partner w... ...Wilding. Name and condition of the person adopting the child—Mrs. Jane Ann Miller, widow. Address—Lime-Tree Lodge, Groombridge Wells. References—the R... ... all?” asked the wine-merchant. “Had you no after- communication with Mrs. Miller?” “None—or some reference to it must have appeared in this book.” “M... ... suppose,” said Wilding, looking sadly at the copy, “is to inquire at Mrs. Miller’s residence, and to try if her references can help me?” “That is the... ...examine the ledger marked with the initial letter “M.” The account of Mrs. Miller, widow, of Groombridge Wells, was found. Two long lines, in faded in... ...s place in the train, and started for the second stage on the journey—Mrs. Miller’s residence at Groombridge Wells. Mothers and children travelled wit...

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.................................................................... 26 Julia Miller ....................................................................... ...os Of these quiet fields And read these words. 27 Edgar Lee Masters Julia Miller WE quarreled that morning, For he was sixty—five, and I was thirty, ... ...urt two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he had got her in a family And to let the child be born Would not do. Well, how about me with e... ...: A cliff—swallow Made her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank There near Miller’s Ford. But no sooner were the young hatched Than a snake crawled up... ... to ride it for a purpose, To use great feelings and passions of the human family For base designs, for cunning ends, To wear a mask like the Greek ac... ...girl. Then like a bolt old Rhodes accused me, And promised me mercy for my family’s sake If I confessed, and so I confessed, And begged him to keep it... ...king politics, Or sat at home reading Grant’s Memoirs; And I supported the family by washing, Learning the secrets of all the people From their curtai... ...logy Oaks Tutt MY mother was for woman’s rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to ... ...r food. And if you have ever lost your way at night, In the deep wood near Miller’s Ford, And dodged this way and now that, Wherever the light of the ...

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..., a causeway and trees, linen laid out to dry, the thatched cottage of the miller, his fish- ing-nets, and the tank where the fish are kept,—not to sp... ... fish- ing-nets, and the tank where the fish are kept,—not to speak of the miller’s boy, who was already watching me. No matter where you are in the c... ...rches and poplars and all the quivering trees palpitated,—an intel- ligent family with graceful branches and elegant bearing, the trees of a love as f... ... been killed on the third day) was the sole compensation ever given to the family, he said, in a tone of deep sadness: “It was a time of great misery,... ...ly morning. Between the hours of waking and breakfasting, the women of the family are sleeping or dressing, and therefore unapproachable; the master o... ...rty. The original founder of Les Aigues was a younger son of the Soulanges family, enriched by marriage, whose chief am- bition was to make his elder ... ...ow to play the clarionet, and he went about with his friend Vermichel, the miller of Soulanges, to village weddings and the grand balls given at the T... ...yes always stopped at the Grand-I-Vert, if only to refresh themselves. The miller of Les Aigues, who was also assistant-mayor, and his men came there.... ... others do,—he keeps them for his own consumption. Monsieur Langlume, your miller, grinds his flour gratis at my request, and my servant bakes his bre...

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...ir 4 An Historical Mystery was so pure, the atmosphere so tempered that a family was sitting out of doors as if it were summer. A man dressed in a hu... ... meadows. This almost regal property belonged before the Revolution to the family of Simeuse. Ximeuse was a feudal estate in Lorraine; the name was pr... ...time it came to be written as pronounced. The great fortune of the Simeuse family, adherents of the House of Burgundy, dates from the time when the Gu... ...e scene of the meet in the time of the “Grand Marquis”—a name given in the family to the Simeuse who built Gondreville. Since 1789 Michu lived in the ... ...a man from Arcis named Marion, grandson of a former bailiff in the Simeuse family. This man, a lawyer before and after the Revolution, was afraid of t... ...est of Nodesme had been sold, for five hundred francs each, by farmers and millers to a man who answered to the description of Michu. When the decree ...

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...ill have a fall, poor dears!” “And it does not come from their side of the family,” said Mrs. Best. “Of course not! And it was wholly unexpected, was ... ...Are they here?” “Yes, poor Fred did not make his art succeed when he had a family to provide for, and he is the head of the Art School here. His son h... ...ntly of poor folks from the hamlet, dependants of the great house, and the family itself, a grey-haired, fine-looking general, a tall dark-eyed lady, ... ...ord Rotherwood, who owned most of the Rockstone property, and who with his family had once been staying in the country house where Magdalen had been g... ...me home, very brown, fuller of Scott than ever for her mother, and of Hugh Miller for Fergus, for whom she had brought so many specimens that Cousin R... ... to his sister, to hear from the two masters all they had to tell. Captain Miller, of the Afra, had slight hurts, which had been looked to before he s... ... the few who had been landed at Corncastle, to the great relief of Captain Miller; but of the first boat there were no tidings, and Blaine thought the... ...had not sunk or been dashed against the crags of the savage coast. Captain Miller’s account was, that not long after leaving 191 Yo n g e the Mersey,... ...tion they could, while his sister hung over him and supported his head. To Miller’s dismayed exclamation at finding a woman still on board, she replie...

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...hing ridiculous. The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much ad- mired by the Neth... ...think well of themselves, and meanly of others. They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a cir- cumstance more deeply impressed on t... ... 14 Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 WITHIN A SHORT WALK of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas ... ...n a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period L... ...is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of him- self... ...rs ago. “I am sure,” said she, “I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller’s regiment went away. I thought I should have broken my heart.” “I a...

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...eyfield, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d’Urbe... ...tremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire. Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the... ... decisively smacking his leg with his switch, ‘there’s hardly such another family in England.’ ‘Daze my eyes, and isn’t there?’ said Durbeyfield. ‘And ... ... when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d’Urberville family, he had observed Durbeyfield’s name on his waggon, and had thereupon ... ...f it all the while.’ ‘Well, I have heard once or twice, ’tis true, that my family had seen better days afore they came to Blackmoor. But I took no not... ...ng her the hour at which he might be ex pected to dinner, went off to the miller’s in a mechanical pursuance of the plan of studying that business, w... ... with him. The luggage was put on the top, and the man drove them off, the miller and the old waiting woman expressing some surprise at their precipit...