Full Text Search Details
... Master Varney,” said Foster; “the living I fear not, but I trifle not nor toy with my dead neighbours of the churchyard. I promise you, it requires a... ...r us.” “How meanest thou?” said Foster. “Is he tired already of his pretty toy—his plaything yonder? He has purchased her at a monarch’s ransom, and I... ... minute fragments into which she had rent it. “Bear witness,” said Varney, collecting himself, “she hath torn my lord’s letter, in order to burden me ... ... next commands. She raised her hand to her fore- head, as if in the act of collecting her thoughts and resolution, while she answered him in a low and... ... costly toys-with the same vehemence would he dash to pieces this frailest toy of all, of which he used to rave so fondly. But that taste also will be... ..., or for victory won. The maskers instantly ceased their mimic strife, and collecting themselves under their original leaders, or present- ers, for su... ...s hand quitted the sword-hilt, and he advanced slowly towards T ressilian, collecting, for their meeting, all the self- possession he could command, u... ...oster, “’tis but reasonable; but, under favour, you go not to your gew-gaw toy-house yonder—you will sleep to-night in better security.” “I would it w...

Full Text Search Details
...s! What tramp children do I see here, attired in a hand- ful of rags, making a gymnasium of the shafts of the cart, making a feather-bed of the flints... ... gymnasium of the shafts of the cart, making a feather-bed of the flints and brambles, making a toy of the hobbled old horse who is not much more like... ...? A general perception of trap and pitfall instantly arises, and the fifer is seen to retire behind the corduroys of his next neighbours, as perceivin... ...hey go clean away! And now I think of it, the wonder is, that every working- day pervader of these scenes goes clean away. The man who sells the dogs’... ...ed off it, looking meekly and inoffensively out of proportion, like the Giraffe of the machinery creation. The store of cannon on the neighbouring gun... ... the machinery creation. The store of cannon on the neighbouring gun-wharf, had an innocent toy-like appearance, and the one red-coated sen- try on du...

Full Text Search Details
...is? I could never bear to be bustling about nothing; I was ashamed of this toy kingdom from the first; I could not tolerate that people should fancy I... ...oor to announce his arrival to the Princess, he moved round the apartment, collecting homage and bestowing com- pliments with friendly grace. Had this... ...ve, to fight love’s battles. But yet the love was there. And now when this toy kingdom of ours has fallen, first of all by my demerits, and next by yo...

Full Text Search Details
... and the knobs in the Marseilles counterpane with which my fingers used to toy. I have heard my mother tell that whenever I was most languid and suffe... ...uld soon effect a cure. The which was quite true, for he had sent her to a toy-shop by one of the maids who had gone to restore the ravage on the ward... ...ll worshipped the el- der, and the little one was like a new discovery and toy to us, who had never been used to such a presence. She was not a common... ...fford’s, we set to work on that History of Letter Writing which, what with collecting mate- rials, and making translations, lasted us three years alto...

Full Text Search Details
...o those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy shop for the furniture of a baby house: these my little nurse kept in... ..., and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. To keep senators in the interest of the crown, it was propose...

Full Text Search Details
...our in France diers) had just been drawn up. The civil population was also collecting, and I saw that something was going to happen. I learned that a ... ...en- closed in a receptacle which has much of the appearance of an enormous toy. The Cite and its population vaguely reminded me of an immense Noah’s a... ...t, who is described as having devoted all his time and his intelligence to collecting the objects by which the. visitor is surrounded. This excellent ... ...the note of taste is struck. If any- thing were needed to make this little toy-temple a happy production, the service would be rendered by the second-...

Full Text Search Details
...e to bricks and soldiers by those who write about toys. The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the sce... ...rk railway, I seem to remember, came and went; one or two clockwork boats, toy sailing ships that, being keeled, would do nothing but lie on their bea... ...ouch these things to life again. It was like the ghost of an antiquarian’s toy theatre, a ghost that crumbled and condensed into a gritty dust of cons... ...owly out of sight. The people were black animalculae by day, clus- tering, collecting, dispersing, by night, they were phantom face-specks coming, van...

Full Text Search Details
...es, from the stout weather-proof family roof down to the daintiest fringed toy of a parasol. There were a Guild Hall and a handsome Corn Market. There... ... elec- tioneering! O Mark, I must take you in hand.’ ‘Meantime the host is collecting. I abscond. Which is the least showy part of the establishment?’... ...ols were fetched, and the two mothers drove away with the two sleek little toy ponies. By which it may be perceived that Mrs. William Egremont’s first... ..., and had pony after pony paraded before the carriage, choosing a charming toy Shetland at last, subject to its behaviour with the coachman’s little b...

Full Text Search Details
...lamps were paling in the dawn when the half caste guard came round. Ticket collecting is a slow business in the East, where people secrete their ticke... ...a halfpenny, or flashing the sun into the eyes of their betters from cheap toy mirrors. One could see at a glance what each had bought; and if there w... ...suredly. But it must be done in secret.’ She raised the heavy kilta like a toy and slung it into her own hut. ‘Out and bar the door! Let none come ne...

Full Text Search Details
...lways ready to cover my retreat with some agreeable pleasantry, which would often earn me the name of an ‘oddity’ or a ‘droll fellow.’ In this way, al... ... hold her; but I was now not sorry she should go: an impression is a thing so delicate to produce and so easy to overthrow! Presently she seemed to ma... ...ll go, but not without my stays and cravats. I must first get together the nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine chestsfull of in- sufferable rubbish, that I h...

Full Text Search Details
...ost for me. Poor Arthur! I must stand alone, ready to support him when his toy fails him.’ CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4 They read... ...plexion and her dress!’ ‘That is a different thing. She cannot be always a toy; and if you want to do the most inestimable service to Arthur, it would... ... a simple straightforward way that Vio- let admired. His rooms were over a toy-shop in Piccadilly, in such a roar of sounds that the ladies exclaimed,... ...arewell to Pausilippo”, by the Earl of St. Erme. Well done, Percy! Are you collecting original serenades for Theodora? I’ll never betray where they ca... ...is happy!’ said Mrs. Finch, in a tone of keen regret, laying her hand on a toy of Johnnie’s; but instantly changing her note, ‘A cold, inanimate piece... ...o lowered his estimate of woman. Well I might do so, when I treated like a toy the happiness he had confided to me. I, on whom he had fixed his ardent... ...carry out property rather than to extinguish the fire. Sarah, after coolly collecting all that belonged to her mistress or the children, had taken the... ...herent sentences which he was unable to finish, so that Percy succeeded in collecting, from his broken narration, an idea of the state of affairs. The...

Full Text Search Details
... of yours startled me; I stepped back—” He became too deeply interested in collecting the scattered envelopes to finish the sentence. “Don’t trouble y... ...s room was a bright and varnished little room, with panelled walls, like a toy-chamber. According to the seasons of the year, roses, sunflowers, hol- ...

Full Text Search Details
... all of inferior rank—would tolerate her with complacency as his favourite toy; and he was taken by surprise at the agony of grief and shame with whic... ... few minutes she was played with by the two brothers like a newly-invented toy, receiving their attentions with pretty half-frightened graciousness, u... ...ronation by the Pope, and this Maximilian never received) was at Innspruck collecting troops for the deliverance of Styria and Carinthia from a horde ... ...l, though the one looks full of might, and you would think the other but a toy.” “And what have you done with the rogues’ heads?” asked the old knight...

Full Text Search Details
...de- tail—saw it just as the birds see it—and all reduced to the smallest of scales and as sharply worked out and finished as a steel engraving. The nu... ...ood position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. We passed the remaining hours of daylight—some basking in the sunshine, some sketching... ...ght sum. So I made a note—Italian omni- bus conductors do not cheat. Near the Cathedral I saw another instance of probity. An old man was peddling dol... ... back, and the franc and one of the coppers were restored to them. Hence it is plain that in Italy, parties connected with the drama and the omnibus a... ...for great scholars are always poor. He was poor, as to money, but very rich in his sweet young daughter Hildegarde and his library. He had been all hi...

Full Text Search Details
...ent, throw me away when they are tired, and wonder that I feel more than a toy horse or a wooden soldier! Yes, yes, that s the way. The old way! It ... ...r his order-book, and charged me any- thing he liked for the pretty little toy, with its blue stones so associated in my remembrance with Dora s hand,... ... have altered a good deal), and she treated Dora just as if she had been a toy. I wanted to per- suade Dora to come and see Traddles, but on my propos... ...rain. It was, that Dora seemed by one consent to be regarded like a pretty toy or plaything. My aunt, with whom she gradually became familiar, always ... ...g ready, and of Miss Lavinia s hovering about her, loth to lose the pretty toy that has given her so much pleasant occupa- tion. Of Dora s making a lo... ...not crying when he made the pauses I shall express by lines. He was merely collecting himself to speak very plainly. I loved her and I love the mem r...

Full Text Search Details
...sage, the latter in extended arms. However, a gen- eral description of the toy-wonders lurking in Mr Boffin’s house, so far conciliated this worldly-m... ...ift of Aladdin’ s palace. They were in a neighbourhood which looked like a toy neighbourhood taken in blocks out of a box by a child of particularly i... ... here! All you’ve got left! Every farthing!’ Such a business as he made of collecting it from his dogs’- eared pockets; of expecting it in this pocket... ...on foot to Mrs Betty Higden’s. But, on the way down, they had stopped at a toy-shop, and had bought that noble charger, a description of whose points ... ...g along, Jenny twisted her venerable friend aside to a brilliantly-lighted toy-shop win- dow, and said: ‘Now look at ‘em! All my work!’ This referred ... ...ce of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure (he looked like a German wooden toy), there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had no 488 Our Mut... ... skirts of his dressing-gown again, and, tuck- ing them under one arm, and collecting his ample whiskers in his other hand, kept his eye upon her, sil...

Full Text Search Details
...nts have their secret toll, and the municipality of Paris is less sharp in collecting the city-dues than the servants are in taking theirs on every si... ... indispo- sitions of mind and body, and the days when he stayed at home to toy with his adored wife. Marshal the Prince de Wissembourg was obliged to ... ..., “is perhaps the dupe of a wish of such women as these, who, to possess a toy, would sacri- fice a family. “I do not think Wenceslas guilty; but I th... ...he floor. His gaze, wandering idly, as that of a man who is just awake and collecting his ideas, fell on a door painted with flowers by Jan, an artist... ...rt the history of the past three years, sobbing like a child deprived of a toy. This confession from an old man young in feeling, this fright- ful and... ... Hec- tor was helpless. The Marshal was lost in thought, like a man who is collecting all his strength, and bracing himself to bear a crushing weight....

Full Text Search Details
...ost believed the whole affair could be taken up piece meal like a child’s toy, and crammed into a little box. The city is a beautiful one, and cannot... ...with which I have for some months past been American Notes – Dickens 267 collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has ...

Full Text Search Details
...ir, your Excellency, I crave pardon, if I spoke too hotly,’ said Berenger, collecting him- self; ‘but it is enough to drive a man to frenzy.’ ‘Sit dow... ...o protect her would assuredly be stopped at the first town; besides which, collecting it in secret was impos- sible under present circumstances, and i... ... as if she were in a naughty fit, refusing unreasonably to part with a new toy, and Nanon Rotrou was much of the same mind; but it was evident that if... ...near the large oak-table, a white apron over her dress, presiding over the collecting of elder- berries for the brew of household-wine for the winter.... ...y wrapped up in the thought of his wife; but the wooden cradle, the homely toy, stirred up fresh depths of feelings; he saw Eustacie wither tender swe... ...’ ‘La pauvre petite!’ said Isaac, under his breath, as if ap- palled; then collecting himself, he said, ‘Madame, these are 337 The Chaplet of Pearls ... ...ip’s face lighted up again, and they did their best by way of preparation, collecting wood for torches, and putting aside food at their meals. It was ... ... floor, so as to form a mosaic of dark red, blue, and green; and a child’s toy lay beside this piece of patchwork. In the midst of his observations, h...

Full Text Search Details
...ork, and you can’t think what a quantity he does see and make out.” “As to collecting newspapers and books, my dear,” said Lamps, “it’s clear I can ha... ...I was also thinking,” proceeded Barbox, “that if we were to look in at the toy-shop, to choose a doll—” “Not dressed!” cried Polly with a clap of her ... ... of the doll its first feature—or that lady would have lost the ponies—the toy-shop expedi- tion took precedence. Polly in the magic warehouse, with a...