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..., equal to the task of assaulting for- tified cities. In this stage of his adventures, he encountered 14 The Cæsars and defeated several of the imper... ...ng made himself emperor, celebrated, upon his arrival in Rome, the secular games, in the year 247 of the Christian era—that being the completion of a ... ...ign dates itself in the series by those ever- memorable secular or jubilee games, which celebrated the completion of the thousandth year from the foun... ... cen- turies; and Odenathus, the Syrian. Others were mere T erra filii, or adventurers, who flourished and decayed in a few days or weeks, of whom the...

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...eturning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure considerably illuminated by cham- pagne. Below the bridge curved ... ...of room, manoeuvered to bring the car level with the curb. It was a virile adventure masterfully executed. With satisfaction he locked a thief-proof s... ...bitt disapproved of Laylock, who sang in choirs and was merry at home over games of Hearts and Old Maid. He had a tenor voice, wavy chestnut hair, and... ...ury!” Thus, laden with treasure, after three and a half blocks of romantic adventure, he drove up to the club. III The Zenith Athletic Club is not ath... ...very woman watched her with stilled blankness. 111 Sinclair Lewis Between games, sitting on the davenport, Babbitt spoke to her with the requisite ga... ... memory of high-school pleasures back in Catawba he sug- gested the nicest games: Going to Boston, and charades with stew-pans for helmets, and word-g...

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...d, and lead to a little, modest, offering of a woman’s counsel to the rash adventurer; for thus could she serviceably put aside her per- plexity awhil... ...! The comparison forced itself on her re- flections. ‘But this is quite an adventure,’ said she, reanimated by the brisker flow of her blood. ‘We ough... ...re those of the finely- bred English; he had the English taste for sports, games, manly diversions; and in the bloom of life, under thirty, his head w... ... wife; at any rate, to discover if she had some and was better than a wild adventuress. ‘Our life below is short!’ she said. To which Diana tacitly as... ...eir lost light in them, her step was brisker; she challenged him to former games of conversation, excursions in blank verse here and there, as the moo...

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... so rapidly acquired by du Tillet. The scheme origi- nally planned by that adventurer had changed on the first Sunday when he saw, at Birotteau’s hous... ...rst payments. To his mind the position did not seem desperate; for like an adventurer who lives from day to day, he saw only the present moment. He re... ...and Fall of Cesar Birotteau table, and by the young people in those little games called innocent because they cover the innocent by-play of bour- geoi... ...ver the innocent by-play of bour- geois love. The Matifats joined in these games. “Cesar,” said Constance as they drove home, “go and see Monsieur le ... ...et away, seeing that the late commercial traveller was about to relate the adventure of a republican deputy of Marseilles, in love with a certain actr...

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...ed a vast amount? There’s the Prime Minister, in one Session, Juggles more games than my sins ‘ll count. VI I’ve murdered insects with mock thunder: C... ... we. XXV —Ah! madam, were they puppets who withstood Y outh’s cravings for adventure to preserve The dedicated ways of womanhood? The light which lead... ...ird was wine in his blood, And woman the odorous bloom: His master’s great adventure stirred Within him to mingle the bloom and bird, And morn ere its... ...url. The room of the toys was a boundless nest, A kingdom the field of the games, Till entered the craving for more, And the worshipped small body had... ...on in rhyme. It is not attractive in being too chaste. The popular tale of adventure and crime Would equally sicken an overdone taste. So, then, onwar...

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...’ said Ursula. ‘No. It would bore me. I couldn’t spend my time playing her games. It’s infra dig.’ The two sisters were like a pair of scissors, snipp... ...elight, such as children alone know, when all seems a perfect and blissful adventure. When they had finished tea, the two girls sat on, silent and ser... ...the positive order, the destructive reaction. He discovered at last a real adventure in the coal-mines. His father asked him to help in the firm. Gera... ...hem transcended the given terms. Ursula did not agree-people were still an adventure to her- but-perhaps not as much as she tried to persuade herself....

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...life at Les Aigues, one might even call it a saintly one, after her famous adventure,—you remember it? One evening in a paroxysm of despairing love, s... ... might have envied the trick; O Muse of the Loves and the Laughs and the Games, Come down and assist me, for, true to your aims, I have ruled of... ...t the end of the garden, where he kept various contrivances for the public games, such as weighing-machines, merry-go-rounds, see-saws, all in readine...

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...speak of the share he had had in their moon- light walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and oblig... ...te- ful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself. Such an adventure as this,—a fine young man and a lovely young woman thrown togethe... ...rom the original recital. CHAPTER IV A VERY FEW DAYS had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her...

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...he bleak winds blew over their forests; but the winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon the Islands, and the savage Islanders knew nothing... ...t their father’s burial? Robert was lounging among minstrels, dancers, and gamesters, in France or Germany. Henry was carrying his five thousand pound... ...nd thus end— more happily than the stories of many favourites of Kings—the adventures of Earl Hubert de Burgh. The nobles, who had risen in revolt, we... ... The English were very well disposed to be proud of their King after these adventures; so, A Child’s Histroy of England 158 when he landed at Dover i... ...by going about the country in a royal sort of way, playing at the people’s games, becoming godfather to their children, and even touching for the King...

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...edge they were saluted by Blandois, who looked white enough after his late adventure, but who made very light of it notwithstanding,—laughing at the m... ... his stand and the way by which he had come. This did not make the night’s adventure run any less hotly in Mr Dorrit’s mind, either when he sat down b... ...got lamed, got their backs broken, died off, gave it up, went in for other games. ‘And this occasions me to congratulate myself again,’ he pursued, ‘o... ...ived an adventurous life. I am an adventurous character. I have known many adventurers; interesting spir- its—amiable society! To one of them I owe my...

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...o typed but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes... ...here is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from humbler toil having commenced. T... ...pace with, studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from Hanno and the Phoenicians down to our day... ... not operate at all. They would part at the first interesting crisis in their adventures. Above all, as I have implied, the man who goes alone can star... ... thee every where at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature, like th... ...use he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amu...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till ...

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...RT I CHAPTER I LAST YEAR, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a ... ... rumours of his doings were rather vague. People talked of some unpleasant adventure that had befallen him abroad, but no one could explain exactly wh... ...e restau- rant, and Azorka would lie at his feet. At that instant I had an adventure which made a great impression upon me. I must frankly admit, howe... ...propriate to your age or, well…something of that….” “I don’ t want to play games, I don’t like games,” said Nellie. “I like new dresses better.” “New ...

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...the South seems more wholesome, but less thoughtful; he gives him- self to games as to a business, striving to excel, but is not readily transported b... ...ul stoop; looking quite like a refined gentleman, and quite like an urbane adventurer; smiling with an engaging ambiguity; cocking at you one peaked e... ...ks; while, by every rule of arithmetic – that flatterer of credulity – the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright ... ...till- born niceties of motive, and begin to deal with fighting, sailoring, adventure, death or childbirth; and thus ancient outdoor crafts and occupat... ...s of my race; and when I was a child I tried in vain to invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper...

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...is debut in it, with the immortal book now republished. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his Friend Mr Abraham Adams, appeared in ... ...rvation of the details of life. And first of the first. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr Abraham Adams was, as has be... ...eintrench it. It is not by any means the fact that the Picaresque novel of adventure is the only or the chief form of fiction which prescribes or admi... ... permit little Joey (for so he was called) to ride their matches. The best gamesters, before they laid their money, always in- quired which horse litt... ....”—“That he is,” said Slipslop, “and a wicked one too. T o my knowledge he games, drinks, swears, and fights eternally; besides, he is horribly indict... ...an smiled, and proceeded— From this society I easily passed to that of the gamesters, where nothing remarkable happened but the finishing my fortune, ...

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... the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural im pulse, the dwellers on their banks will at... ...dieu to their familiar outlines, and addressed ourselves to new scenes and adventures. Naught was famil iar but the heavens, from under whose roof th... ...abic, among the Arabs, and they made a great sensation. “Robinson Crusoe’s adventures and wisdom,” 46 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers says he, “w... ...rer.” But, above all, in our native port, did we not frequent the peaceful games of the Lyceum, from which a new era will be dated to New England, as ... ...the Lyceum, from which a new era will be dated to New England, as from the games of Greece. For if Herodotus carried his history to Olympia to read, a... ... start again with Orpheus and the Trojan war, the Pyramids and the Olympic games, and Homer and Athens, for our stages; and after a breathing space at...

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...otyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes a... ...e is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from hum bler toil having commenced. T... ...ce with, studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from Hanno and the Phoenicians down to our day; ... ...t operate at all. They would part at the first interesting crisis in their adventures. Above all, as I have implied, the man who goes alone can start ... ...hee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature, like thes... ...he has not so many public holi days, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amuse...

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............................................................... 247 THE HUMAN ADVENTURE .................................................................... ...ral family. There have been gipsies, wanderers, knaves, knights-errant and adventurers, no doubt, but the settled permanent rustic home and the tenure... ...it together. There never was anything like it before. Essentially it is an adventure of the 31 H. G . Wells British spirit, sanguine, discursive, and... ...e least successful instance the one that is made the text against all such first-personal inter- ventions, is, of course, Thackeray. But I think the t... ...se, Thackeray. But I think the trouble with Thackeray is not that he makes first-personal interven- tions, but that he does so with a curious touch of... ...ferent to any form of beauty, and pedantically devoted to the pettiness of games and clothing and social conduct. It is, in fact, chiefly by his style... ...lishmen “seem now to be nearly in agreement,” and also on the opinion that games are a little overdone and that civic duties and the use of the rifle ... ... expurgat- ing their classics, substituting the stupid grind of organised “games” for natural, imaginative play, persecuting loafers— and so achieving...

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...uld have done; 36 Magnum Bonum and their hearts were so full of their own adventure, that they poured it out before remarking anything,— “How did you... ...le Armine, al- ways delicate, had been so much knocked up by his course of adventures, that he needed her care all the rest of the day. Nor would she ... ...r 91 Yonge dress; to talk and laughter that she could not understand, and games that seemed to her stupid, though everybody else seemed to find them ... ...aid his mother. “For my part, I had rather see them playing at good honest games than messing about with that museum nonsense. The boys did not do hal... ...ed over the park wall, and lay in a breathless heap on the other side. The adventure was the fruitful cause of mirth at the Folly, but not a word was ... ...g?” “Well, yes, I’m afraid he is. He’s unpopular, for he does not care for games; but his brother is popular enough for both.” “Jock?—the monkey!” “Hi...

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...liffe. A somewhat strange permission to relate in his own way a few of the adventures of these men (while respecting certain susceptibilities) has onl... ...nt mo- ment. But, in any case, swear to me that you will let this singular adventure explain itself naturally. Here are the facts. Monsieur de Maulinc... ...inhabitant of this desert region, proved an assiduous atten- dant at these games of bowls; and must, undoubtedly, be considered the most striking crea...

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...ines all the fascination of a fairy tale and all the simple truth of human adventure, holding out the same allurement to every being, whether he is a ... ... a hill in the distance, and now all has disappeared. Farewell, childhood, games, all, all, farewell! CHAPTER II All three horsemen rode in silence. O... ... floating in the dark heavens. The travellers proceeded onward without any adventure. They came across no villages. It was ever the same bound- less, ... ...at the foot of Vesuvius; for when the Zaporozhtzi lacked money, these bold adventurers broke down their booths and took everything gratis. The Setch c...

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...ostess, and then amused himself with society gossip, dancing, intellectual games, and bouts rimes, which were in vogue at the Karagins’. Only a few of... ..., who had reappeared that year in Moscow af- ter his exile and his Persian adventures, and was leading a life of luxury, gambling, and dissipation, as...

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...nd he has no love for his mother and his family; and he wrestles and plays games on Sunday instead of going to church. Never let him into your presenc... ...the burial service over Major Fraser under fire, and by a quite read- able adventure, chronicled by Burgoyne, with Lady Harriet Ackland. Lady Harriet’...

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...ing your tem- per; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mis- pronounced some word, only the knowl... ...ouder than ever. And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on hi... ...bered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the sea- weed, the seal roar, and... ...seal. “What you must do,” said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son’s adventures, “is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a n... ...ming as much as three hundred miles in a day and a night. He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Baski...

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...ore carefully, gentlemen, then you will understand that it is so. I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some ... ... so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world. Then—this is all what you say—new economic relat... ...his mind. Anyway, I have only lately determined to remember some of my early adventures. Till now I have always avoided them, even with a certain unea... ...k by the pettiness of their thoughts, the stupidity of their pursuits, their games, their conversations. They had no understanding of such essential t...

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...taker of the work, 46 The Wealth of Nations who hazards his stock in this adventure. The value which the work- men add to the materials, therefore, r... ... a more certain proposition in mathematics, than that the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are to be a loser. Adventure upon all t... ...ut of his wages at home. The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recom... ...ed in them. T o have gained a prize in the Olym- pic, Isthmian, or Nemaean games, gave illustration, not only to the person who gained it, but to his ...

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...mself, re- spected him more than they did Anatole. Dolokhov could play all games and nearly always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clear... ...re was plenty of money, though there was no food), some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles. The general trend of the campaign was r... ...ntly repent. Af- terwards Boris Drubetskoy came and began relating various adventures. His coming vexed me from the first, and I said something disagr... ...w- ings. And in my dream I knew that these drawings rep- resented the love adventures of the soul with its beloved. And on its pages I saw a beautiful... ...r parties to the whole district on name days; there were still the count’s games of whist and boston, at which-spreading out his cards so that everybo... ...ov, who had reappeared that year in Moscow after his exile and his Persian adventures, and was lead- ing a life of luxury , gambling, and dissipation,...

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...d side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. I am speaking fig... ...and to hell with all who pry into the human heart! Well, so much for that ‘adventure’ with Katerina Ivanovna. So now Ivan knows of it, and you—no one ... ...still?” “We weren’t betrothed at once, not for three months after that adventure. The next day I told myself that the incident was closed, conclud... ... The two “kids” adored him. But on this occasion he was in no mood for games. He had very important business of his own before him, some- thing al... ...at just the same thing, in a different form, of course? And young people’s games of soldiers or robbers in their playtime are also art in its first st... ...ng from the growing ar- tistic instincts of the young. And sometimes these games are much better than performances in the theatre; the only difference...

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...k that boy Conrade would at least keep his promises.” And she detailed the adventure of the previ- ous day, whence the conclusion was but too evident.... ...me said gambled away—as if he had not had a regular hatred of all sorts of games.” “Edward with his head in the clouds! One notion is as likely as the... ...ough some more than ordi- nary danger, the other is only the subject of an adventure, perfectly irrespective of her conduct in it.” “Bathos attends al... ...eties. Bessie in a state of great exultation and amusement at the romantic adventure, Rachel somewhat put out at the untoward mis- hap that obliged he...

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...questions with crooked answers may be made very amusing. But none of these games are equal to the game of love-making—providing that the players can b... ...ion in detail than they are in the abstract, that the narrative of many an adventure would shock us, though the same adventure would not shock us in t... ...jor said as little as was possible while he was being told of his father’s adventure, and expressed neither anger nor satisfaction till he had been ma... ...ould ask no questions about Mrs Broughton. He told them, therefore, of his adventures abroad, and of Crawley’s escape. But at last, having finished hi...

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...other; for the high blank walls; for the faded crowd they shut in; for the games of the prison children as they whooped and ran, and played at hide-an... ...al 72 Charles Dickens nomenclature—’there’s dandelions, and all manner of games.’ ‘Is it very pleasant to be there, Bob?’ ‘Prime,’ said the turnkey. ... ...rn. Left to himself again, after the solicitude and compassion of his last adventure, he was naturally in a thoughtful mood. As naturally, he could no... ...edge they were saluted by Blandois, who looked white enough after his late adventure, but who made very light of it notwithstanding,—laughing at the m... ... his stand and the way by which he had come. This did not make the night’s adventure run any less hotly in Mr Dorrit’s mind, either when he sat down b... ...got lamed, got their backs broken, died off, gave it up, went in for other games. ‘And this occasions me to congratulate myself again,’ he pursued, ‘o...

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...e image and idea of death, has in some sort reconciled me to that untoward adventure. When I first began to open my eyes, it was with so perplexed, so... ...t commonly, we find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterwards, wi... ... Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that prepara... ...ith which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an eminence n...

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...t only such associations as these, connected with the past, but sports and games for the present—merry dances round rustic pillars, adorned with emble... ... them of parental solici- tude, the happy days of childhood, and the merry games of infancy! Tell them of hunger and the streets, beggary and stripes,... ...- vet bracelets, dispensing fancy articles in the shop, and presiding over games of chance in the concert-room. There were marriageable daughters, and... ...made for the cabin, fully impressed with a belief in the captain’s amazing adventures. Helves was the sole lion for the remainder of the day—impudence...