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...ce. She presided over the female part of the domestic arrangements, in the capacity of housekeeper; was a spinster, and bore the name of Remarkable Pe... ...and, coloring excessively, she motioned to a young woman who served in the capacity of maid, and retired with an air of womanly reserve. The field was... ... of the Free and Accepted Masons,’ at the head of whom was Richard, in the capacity of master, doubtless to approve or reject such of the plans as, in... ...undays that the pulpit was vacant; but Richard was a good deal addicted to carrying things to an excess, and then there was some thing so papal in his... ...cle. Richard filled the chair that was placed behind another table, in the capacity of clerk; while Benjamin, after heaping sundry logs on the fire, p... ...t be- hind a volume of vapor that was impelled furiously toward the north, carrying with it the softer atmosphere from the distant ocean. The rising s... ... hear of the great shot that I made at the wolf, Cousin Elizabeth, who was carrying off your father’ s sheep?” said Richard, drawing himself up with a... ...n many a stout man, bending under the load of the bag of meal which he was carrying from the mills of the Mohawk, through the rugged passes of these m... ...dignation; and when he completed the last arrangement for the division, by carrying with his own hands a trout of a large size, and plac- ing it on fo...

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...o extrava- gantly hired a boy, were seen perilously staggering up ladders, carrying storm windows and screwing them to second-story jambs. While Kenni... ...n a while?” “I’m not sure that I shall. I’m trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I’ve failed at every positive thing ... ... to stories, but I heard it mighty good and straight that Harry Haydock is carrying 192 Main Street on with a girl that clerks in a store down in Min... ...can’t help what I see from my back steps, and I notice your hired girl Bea carrying on with the grocery boys and all—” “Mrs. Bogart! I’d trust Bea as ... ...ls of men, but of Miles Bjornstam’s impudence, of Terry Gould’s scandalous carryings-on with a farmer’s daughter four years ago, of cooking cabbage, a... ... shoulder of Nat Hicks the sporting tailor, with the elegant Harry Haydock carrying one of his enormous pale leather bags, Del Snafflin the other, Jac...

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... we would add what a new life demands. In a new age men must acquire a new capacity, must be men upon a new scale, and with added qualities. We shall ... ...ntolerant, or hoodwinked, or shut in to a petty view shall have no part in carrying men forward to a true humanity, shall never stand as examples of t... ... too, which strengthen, which for ordinary men come near to creating, that capacity to reason upon affairs and to plan for action which we always reck...

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... of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels the Government of the United States can have no choice but... ...the Housatonic and the Lyman M. Law. The case of the Housatonic, which was carrying foodstuffs consigned to a London firm, was essen- tially like the ... ...RUTHLESS SINKING OF SCHOONER “LYMAN M. LAW” The case of the Law, which was carrying lemon-box staves to Palermo, disclosed a ruthlessness of method wh... ...y neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hospital-ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, thou... ...ly to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans. In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished we s... ... how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and elements of capacity and service and self- sacrifice it involves. WHAT WE MUST DO These...

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...he streets, I clap my eyes on John himself coming out of a toyshop! He was carrying a little boy, and conducting two uncommon pretty women to their co... ... narrative, I will state that our ship was a barque of three hundred tons, carrying a crew of eighteen men, a second mate in addition to John, a carpe... ...ch boy, poor little fellow). We had three boats; the Long boat, capable of carrying twenty five men; the Cutter, capable of carrying fifteen; and the ... ...en; the Cutter, capable of carrying fifteen; and the Surf boat, capable of carrying ten. I put down the capacity of these boats according to the num ... ...rrying fifteen; and the Surf boat, capable of carrying ten. I put down the capacity of these boats according to the num bers they were really meant t...

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...doubtedly in real danger from a man who, among other fancies, persisted in carrying about with him two long- bladed knives with which he sometimes thr... ...al labor, in which no man shall be preyed upon by other men who, with- out capacity of their own, compel all to work for the profit 33 Balzac of one.... ...ervants?” demanded the lunatic. “They will remain servants if they have no capacity be- yond it.” “Then what’s the good of your doctrine?” “T o judge ... ... the sagacious landlord. In the evening he went up to the traveller’s room carrying pens, ink, and paper. “What have you got there?” asked Gaudissart....

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...ys are always running about the floor ministering to the mem- bers’ wishes—carrying up petitions to the chair, bringing water to long-winded legislato... ...ns to the chair, bringing water to long-winded legislators, delivering and carrying 32 North America V ol. 2 out letters, and running with general me... ..., but long afterward, when the United States was a nation, he succeeded in carrying a law by which the further importation of slaves into any of the S... ...he shore, with their bows toward the land—large boats, capable probably of carrying from one to two hundred passengers each, and about three hundred t... ...anding. I do not think that we in England would have attempted the feat of carrying over horses and carriages under stress of such circumstances. But ... ...pon myself the duties of a military critic. I am well aware that I have no capacity for such a task, and that my opinion on such matters would be wort... ...his position by his brother-in-law, the Secretary of the Navy, and in that capacity made about 154 North America V ol. 2 £20,000 in five months, all ... ...tted that he had really made no payments to members of Con- gress. His own capacity had been so great that no such assistance had been found necessary... ...there could not be place there for an idle man. But they all of them had a capacity for a prolonged state of doing noth- ing which is to me unintellig...

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...her head, to keep her sweet complexion from the freckles, and Angelica was carrying a bun, to feed the swans and ducks in the royal pond. They had not... ...His Majesty the King of Crim Tartary returned to that monarch’s dominions, carrying away a num- ber of sketches which he had made in the Paflagonian c... ...; and yet, when he had taken up the ring (as it turned out to be), and was carrying it to his mistress, she thought he looked like a little cupid. He ... ...attended by Baron Sleibootz, his chamberlain, and followed by a black page carrying the most beautiful crown you ever saw! He was dressed in his trave... ...ects, in which the poor Prince showed his ignorance as much as she did her capacity. He owned, with many blushes, how ignorant he was; on which the la... ...f his known legitimist opinions, and has lived for some time in the humble capacity of a wood-cutter, in a forest on the outskirts of the Kingdom of C... ...her garb very humble, the foundling was educated in the Palace in a menial capacity, under the name of Betsinda. ‘She did not give satisfaction, and w... ...r the name of Betsinda. ‘She did not give satisfaction, and was dismissed, carrying with her, certainly, part of a mantle and a shoe, which she had on...

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...h a few of those covert glances which show a woman’s surprise and also her capacity for observation. It resulted from this little incident that silenc... ... bodice that makes her look like a living Greek statue, and when I see her carrying those flags in her hand to the sound of martial music, and jumping... ...e Arabian Nights, was served by Monsieur and Madame Chapuzot in the double capacity of friends and servants. The Chapuzots and Mar- guerite were const... ...es and their households. Well, as soon as I am certain not so much of your capacity as of your perseverance I shall leave Paris.” “It is Thaddeus of W...

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...sperity and continued ascendency , long after the day when rival ports are carrying away her fleets and commerce. She is a proof of the difficulty of ... ...hemselves? They made the government, if you will, though in a very limited capacity; and they made these corporations, much more directly and unequivo... ...n character, so remarkable for its mildness and dis- position to mercy, in carrying out the powers of government, to permit such a struggle as would b...

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... Mademoiselle Gamard intended that I should stand out in the rain, and, by carrying my candlestick upstairs, she meant to make me understand it. What ... ... chiefly occupied in dealing the most trivial matters of conscience in his capacity of confessor to all the schools in town and to a few noble souls w... ...onths with tolerable patience, Birotteau deserted the house of an evening, carrying with him Mademoiselle Salomon. In spite of her utmost efforts the ... ...nate, con- verted so adroitly into provincial detectives, and his personal capacity, had induced the Congregation of Jesus to select him out of all th... ...o ably woven round him by revenge, and to make him see the power and great capacity of his enemy, whose hatred to Chapeloud, under whom he had been fo...

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...s head, and put a great black cat to flight. A young peasant girl, who was carrying a bundle of grass on her head, suddenly appeared, followed at a di... ... work of his profession. The officer could come to no conclusion as to the capacity of the head, which was cov- ered by a close cap; but hidden though... ...ceded by a choir-boy, who bore the crucifix, and followed by the sacristan carrying the vase of holy water, and by some fifty women, old men, and chil... ...struggling folk who, when I knew them first, used to walk over to Grenoble carrying their few cheeses for sale, now made the journey comfortably in a ... ...T yre, Carthage, Venice, Holland, and England, for instance, to secure the carrying trade. I cast about for some such notion as this to apply to our l... ...f those who dwell in it; and the admin- istration of the law is the art of carrying it out in such a manner that no injury is done to people’s interes... ...by all his be- longings, even by the carter’s wagon! Is it not a sign of a capacity for business not very often met with in remote coun- try places?” ... ...efore, that there are such things as superi- ority of fortune, of thinking capacity, and of power, and we must make up our minds to this fact; but the... ...eed to do so now unless I wished, and I relished liberty with all the keen capacity for enjoyment that we have in Languedoc. I did not absolutely forg...

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...drinking as to threaten spontaneous combustion; and old Colonel Lilywhite, carrying his wife and seven daughters to Bengal, swore that he would have a... ... power of the General-in-Chief to advance a Caesar, if he finds him in the capacity of a subaltern: MY reward for the above exploit was, therefore, no... ...College, Dublin. Mr. Sheeny was with the Queen’s people, not in a military capacity, but as representative of an English journal; to which, for a trif... ...bahawder, artilleryman. He had entered into Holkar’s service in the latter capacity, and had, by his merit and his undaunted brav- ery in action, atta... ... (yatabals), mounted on white dromedaries, were seen galloping to and fro, carrying to the advancing hosts the orders of Holkar. Y ou see that two sid... ... had been brought on (as indeed well they might) by my gigantic efforts in carrying the elephant up a steep hill a quarter of a mile in length. Walkin...

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...e reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle. He had a uniform jacket with one button off... ...e in sections during the next three weeks, each section headed by a donkey carrying a white man in new clothes and tan shoes, bow- ing from that eleva... ...rlast- ing confab. “I had given up worrying myself about the rivets. One’s capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose. I s... ...mazes me now when I think of it. They were big powerful men, with not much capacity to weigh the consequences, with courage, with strength, even yet, ... ...y are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness. Of course you may be too much of a fool to go wr... ...ng.’ I noticed she was not very young—I mean not girlish. She had a mature capacity for fidelity, for belief, for suffering. The room seemed to have g...

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...ging directly over the city; there they saw hearses and coffins in the air carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying unburied... ...this the trouble of it. I shall not be supposed to lessen the authority or capacity of the physicians when I say that the violence of the distem- per,... ...oachmen, that they may not (as some of them have been observed to do after carrying of infected persons to the pest-house and other places) be admitte... ... particularly , as I hinted, some got tents and set them up in the fields, carrying beds or straw to lie on, and provisions to eat, and so lived in th... ...olating stroke; and that the people calling upon God as they saw the carts carrying away the dead bodies was all enthusiastic, absurd, and impertinent... ...on of others, who talk of in- fection being carried on by the air only, by carrying with it vast numbers of insects and invisible creatures, who enter... ...s numbers which would have been sick at a time would have exceeded all the capacity of public pest-houses to receive them, or of public officers to di...

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...h his fist, and left the captain on the floor literally silenced. This was carrying it with a high hand; so he was shut up in his state-room for ten d... ... The mate leaped into her, and they pulled rapidly ashore. Another cutter, carrying an armed crew, soon followed. In an hour’s time the first returned... ...s darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ration; and aboard of most of them, it is never serve... ...pally visited by the pearl-shell fishermen, who arrive in small schooners, carrying not more than five or six men. For a long while the business was e... ...ming a frig- ate. This was the Reine Blanche, last from the Marquesas, and carrying at the fore the flag of Rear-Admiral Du Petit Thouars. Hardly had ... ...ore was divided into nineteen districts, with a native chief over each, in capacity of governor and judge, was, by Bruat, divided into four. Over thes... ...ul’s hands, all our expenses were of course payable by him in his official capacity; and, therefore, as a friend of Wilson, and sure of good pay, the ...

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... and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were Fre... ...I was really useful to the business, you did not like to retain me in that capacity, and thought it an act of justice soon to make me your partner.” “... ...trees, and mak- ing a path through the branches and the fallen leaves, and carrying burdens, and working hard. Sometimes, they came to a long green av... ...ning at the be- ginning of a new half, and presented to the school in that capacity as “Mr. Cheeseman.” Then our fel- lows all agreed that Old Cheesem...

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...nnot tell. After his im- prisonment all trace of Cervantes in his official capacity disappears, from which it may be inferred that he was not reinstat... ...mate, and that a few years afterwards the nuns removed to another convent, carrying their dead with them. But whether the remains of Cervantes were in... ...ng, as in the histories of knights-errant he had never read of any of them carrying any. On 61 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. this point the landlord ... ...e something else of more importance, because, unless for some such reason, carrying saddle- bags was not very favourably regarded among knights-errant... ... enter the straw and barley he served out to the carriers, and, with a lad carrying a candle-end, and the two damsels already mentioned, he returned t... ...e; and seizing about eight at a time, she flung them out of the window. In carrying so many together she let one fall at the feet of the barber, who t... ...ontexture of the sinews, the close network of the muscles, the breadth and capacity of the veins, whence you may infer what must be the strength of th... ... have promised him this ever so long, only that I am afraid he has not the capacity to govern his realm.” Sancho partly heard these last words of his ... ...u and so long looked for by me, for I promise you there will be no want of capacity in me to govern it; and even if there is, I have heard say there a...

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...with a kind of black sneering coolness—frightened to, I could see that—but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. `If you choose to make capital out... ... man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness—you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. ... ... a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman too... ...r papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope, which he had been probably carrying to the post, and which bore the name and address of Mr. Utterson. ...

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...day, undisturbed, in the little Charles Dickens 18 churchyard where so many are so strangely brought together. Without the name of the clergyman to w... ...ght have a look at the various unlawful traps which are every night set for Jack. As my term of service in that distinguished corps was short, and as ... ... Half your time gone, and nothing come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He canno... ..., and not usually travelling with a hoof or two over the precipice—though much consoled by explanation that this was to be attributed to his great sag... ...te leaps they took, what dark abysses they plunged into, what rocks they wore away, what echoes they invoked! In one part where I went, they were pres... ...was once tutor to Candide, an ingenious young gentleman of some celebrity. In his per- sonal character, he is as humane and worthy a gentleman as any ... ... yard—not the yard of that church, but of another—a church- yard like a great shabby old mignonette box, with two trees in it and one tomb—I meet Whit... ...ften go to sleep herself in the daytime, but will sit for any length of time beside the man. And his slumberous propensities would not seem to be refe... ...ce the golden rolling-pin and silver pie-board, she remembered this, and turned up her laced-silk sleeves to make a pie. The Captain brought out a sil...