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...inconvenient, treat it indeed with ingratitude, and dwell upon the immense liberations that lie beyond for those who will force themselves through its... ...distance of a few score yards it runs supported by iron staples across the front of a sheer preci- pice, and for perhaps half a mile it hangs like an ... ...she had invented a characteristic little cer- emony. She would stand up in front of him and put her hands on his shoulders and look into his face. “Cl... ...ugh his head, and after a turn or so in the garden he was attracted to the front door by a sound of voices, and found Lady Marayne had been up still e... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ...lves. Imperialism without noble imaginations, it seemed to him, was simply nationalism with megalomania. It was swagger- ing, it was greed, it was Ger...

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..., navigated by men in livery, and cutting through the water a few yards in front, poor Emilio, with only an old gondolier who had been his father’s se... ...ivance, that he straightway seated himself in an armchair of gilt wood, in front of which a most appetizing cold supper stood ready, and, without more... ...ees Venice as it was three centuries ago?” The unknown fair one, seated in front of a dressing-table blazing with wax lights, was unfastening her frip... ...omelier feelings of life after the grandiose picture of two stupendous and national emotions:—general misery, general joy, expressed with the magic fo... ...e accord, shouted for its repetition. “I feel as if I were celebrating the liberation of Italy,” thought a Milanese. “Such music lifts up bowed heads,...

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...entertain all sorts of people; many flocked thither, and he himself sat in front, amidst his nobles, clad in purple. Now the signal for their falling ... ... farther use of the priests, and that was to give people directions in the national usages at funeral rites. 114 V olume One Numa taught them to rega... ...n my opinion, the meaning rather is, that the worshiper, since the temples front the east, enters with his back to the rising sun; there, faces round ... ...nue them with disgrace, and suffer for their covetousness and designed af- front; it is well done, moreover, to confine her to her husband’s nearest k... ...rwise, you must make use of others to intercede for you, for it is not the national cus- tom here for the king to give audience to anyone that doth no... ...her answers, particu- larly that there had been a neglect of some of their national rites relating to the Latin feasts; but the Alban water the oracle... ...all the world did homage to them. Titus himself thought more highly of his liberation of Greece than of any other of his actions, as appears by the in...

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... her back to the light. Her brother -in-law , Colonel MacAndrew , stood in front of the fireplace, warming his back at an 30 The Moon and Sixpence un... ... my best to engage Mrs. Strickland in talk. The Colonel, still standing in front of the fireplace, uttered no word. I wondered how soon I could decent... ...arles Strickland. He was twenty-three. They played together, walked on the front together, listened together to the nigger minstrels; and she had made... ...lle, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm. The Swede is adept at the gentle pastime of ... ...f which finds no other means of expression. His satisfaction is a sense of liberation. The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. There was i... ...rhaps even this was fanciful — was that he was passionately striv- ing for liberation from some power that held him. But what the power was and what l...

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...und their parallel. It was longer ere we spied the native village, standing (in the universal fashion) close upon a curve of beach, close under a grov... ...ty feet in length, raised from four to eight feet from the earth, and accessible by a broad stair. Along the back of this, and coming to about half it... ...ence spilling down a stair of rock into the sea. The draught of air drew down under the foli- age in the very bottom of the den, which was a perfect a... ...t Louis Stevenson This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression... ...-board, absinthe, a map of the world on Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handfu... ...ve; and these are the hours of the spirits’ wanderings. At any time of the night— it may be earlier, it may be later—a sound is to be heard below, whi...

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... indig- nant at the terms on which their legislature had surrendered their national independence. The general resentment led to the strangest leagues ... ...which, winding round the foot of the steep bank, or heugh, brought them in front of the thatched, but com- fortable, farm-house, which was the dwellin... ...he Recluse was more frequently found occupying the broad flat stone in the front of his mansion. As he sate there one day, about the hour of noon, a p... ...nce as soon 75 placed the whole party on the open space of firm ground in front of the T ower of Westburnflat. CHAPTER IX. So spak the knicht; the ge... ...tient surprise. It was not Grace Armstrong, but Miss Isabella V ere, whose liberation had been effected by their appearance be- fore the tower. “Where... ...hment to Miss Vere was whis- pered in the country, he doubted not that her liberation was the sole object of the attack upon his fastness. The dread o...

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...here it rose above the shrine of the Madonna, and all the other pillars in front of the house. Each window, and each main beam which separated the dif... ...ngs, which the owners of the abutting houses sometimes forgot to open. The front of this shop of the Sieur Lecamus was all win- 45 Balzac dow, formed... ...d the right to assemble. In the famous “burghers’ parlor” their solemn de- liberations took place. Had it not been for the continual sac- rifices whic... ...was then walking, crossed the street rapidly, and came under the arcade in front of the Lecamus house. There he passed slowly along in front of the sh... ...nces, which have lived in concubinage with Moors, Spaniards, and all other nationalities that adjoined them. This pure, chaste, brave, and loyal provi... ...ne dé Medici Languedoc is only Languedoc; but Touraine is France; the most national river for Frenchmen is the Loire, which waters Touraine. For this ... ...rleans. Catherine dé Medici, seeing a chance of support to her policy in a national representation, joyfully agreed to it. The cardi- nal, bent on rec...

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...ounger than he. Hermione was having a discussion with the bridegroom about nationality. ‘No,’ she said, ‘I think that the appeal to patriotism is a mi... ...r discussion. ‘You couldn’t call a race a business concern, could you?—and nationality roughly corresponds to race, I think. I think it is meant to.’ ... ...gely but politely and evenly inimical. ‘Do you think race corresponds with nationality?’ she asked musingly, with expressionless indecision. Birkin kn... ...oon approached: there was scarcely light to draw any more. Ursula stood in front of the class, leading the children by questions to un- derstand the s... ...w all they were to know, by the time the gong went. She stood in shadow in front of the class, with catkins in her hand, and she leaned towards the ch... ...g catkins?’ he asked, picking up a piece of hazel from a scholar’s desk in front of him. ‘Are they as far out as this? I hadn’t noticed them this year... ...r like steel. A horrible despair, and at the same time a sense of release, liberation, came over Hermione. She turned with a pleasant intimacy to Ursu... ...eated in an estranged voice. He pulled off his cap, in a movement of dream-liberation, and went across to her. But he could not touch her, because she...

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...om failed to charm forth my mite. You Scotch, who are so proud of your own nationality, must make due allow- ance for that of other folks. On the next... ... illuminated by the beams of the low and setting sun, who showed his ruddy front, like a warrior prepared for de- fence, over a huge battlemented and ... ...n, the bottom of which we had attained by this ugly descent, brought us in front of two or three cottages, one of which another blink of moonshine ena... ... as if waiting till my companion should make way for him; and, as they sat fronting each other, I could not help thinking that they might have formed ... ...cir- cumstances which I detail at length, a clue may be found to effect my liberation. Another chance certainly remains—the Journal, as I may call it,... ... Here, however, I sit, day after day, without a single effort to effect my liberation. Y et my inactivity is not the result of despondency , but arise... ...e him and his clerk, Mr. Faggot, thinking the moment favourable for my own liberation, and intimated to Mr. Foxley my deter- mination to stand by him.... ...attained; since it is well known that, in Scotland, where there is so much national music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a... ... illustrative of one of the great occasions for humiliation, and causes of national defection. I hope the course he took comforted himself —I am sure ...

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...er given way under them. Built en colombage, that is to say, with a wooden front- age, the whole facade was covered with slates, so put on as to form ... ...st two ad- joining houses, had no depth and derived all its light from the front and side windows. Each floor had two small cham- bers only, lighted b... ...t of his pottery. In 1793 he was able to buy a chateau sold as part of the National domain, which he at once pulled to pieces. The profits were such t... ...res (thus assisting to give Limoges an improved aspect), a fine house, the front of it being on a line with a public building with the facade of which... ...tempted,” said the juge de paix. “Or, at any rate, the weak- nesses of our national character should have been guarded against by the admirable restri... ...n, was born of the Revolution, and is the direct result of the sale of the National domain. A man must be ignorant indeed of what is going on all over... ...e Mon- sieur Bonnet, my dear? He will tell you that Farrabesche, since his liberation has behaved as an honest man; the whole neigh- borhood thinks we...

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... of tobacco brought into one smoky out- line the scattered features of its national physiognomy. Thenceforth, and notwithstanding the parcelling out o... ...were dusted oftener than the most pre- cious sculptures in the Louvre. The front of the house bore no signs of decay; notwithstanding the deepened col... ... see through to the greenery which draped the lower end of the garden. The front building, which was reserved for recep- tions and the lodging-rooms o... ...in a gallery built above the kitchens and the servants’ hall, by which the front house communicated with the “back-quarter.” The steps grew more disti... ...ho saw and knew nothing outside of his furnaces, seemed not to realize the liberation of his fortune. On the morrow they started for Flanders. During ...

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... the leash, as it were, until the troop was fairly in the valley, those in front beginning to halt to give their horses water. 24 The Caged Lion They... ...d and pinioned by a large plaid drawn closely round her, and held upon the front of the saddle of a large tall horse, ridden by a slender, light-limbe... ...nation, instead of the canonical appointment emanating from Durham, and as national feeling went with the Regent’s nomi- nee, it was by no means certa... ...ing the promised guerdon to the min- strel, let himself be led away to the front of the inn; but there as a piper, playing to a group of dancers, and ... ...d at Dreux, yet whenever he was obliged to enforce anything unpopular, the national dis- like to the Scot was apt to show itself, and the whole army w... ... himself accounted for. He had heard a Scots tongue among his foes, though national feeling had made him ut- terly silent on that head to the Duke of ... ... a fond unreasonable vexation that he had had no part in her 251 Yo n g e liberation, her colour was coming and going, and she looked as if she might... ...ndled her hand, and struggled and stammered between his rejoicing over her liberation and despair that he had no part in it. ‘Y ea,’ said the King ‘it...

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...passion. Smarting under his disgrace, he undertook, a short time after his liberation, to leave the ves- sel clandestinely at one of the islands, but ... ...springing forward; but the rest fell back before the coura- 80 Omoo geous front of Jermin, and, with the speed of thought, Bembo, unharmed, stood upo... ... a site on one side of the bay: a green lawn slopes off to the sea: and in front waves the English flag. Across the water, the tricolour also, and the... ...th the listless, slovenly behaviour of these men; there was nothing of the national vivacity in their movements; noth- ing of the quick precision perc... ...one would wish to see: a soft knoll, planted with old breadfruit trees; in front, a savannah, sloping to a grove of palms, and, between these, glimpse... ... of “tayos,” or 133 Melville friends, eager to form an alliance after the national custom, and do our slightest bidding. The really curious way in wh... ...ents, the Tahitians presented a far different appear- ance in the original national costume; which was graceful in the extreme, modest to all but the ...

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...n country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national guard of every canton in France,— one result of the year 1830, whi... ...llows, a Norway spruce, and a beech which overtops them all; and there, in front of the main tower, some very singular shrubs,—a yew trimmed in a way ... ...ch made the old man’s trousers, thickened, however, by many darns, open in front showed a sun-burnt little breast. In short, the attire of the being c... ...f the chase, the old fellow plunged into the deepest part of the stream in front of Blondet. “It’s your fault we’ve lost him!” he cried, as Blondet ga... ...s in the air. ‘I’ve the good tobacco, it never shall be thine,’ that’s the national air of the rich man, hey? The peasant will always be the peasant. ... ...olution; the man who gave them possession of the soil and sold to them the national domains. His anointing was saturated with that idea.” “An idea to ... ...ers, boots, and short waistcoat. These articles, bought at the time of his liberation, were, it is true, somewhat the worse for a life in the fields; ...

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...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...e riders advance rapidly towards him; but when he saw them halt and form a front, which completely occupied the path, he checked his horse, and advanc... ...lbow, and which, like the rest of his armour, were of bright steel. At the front of his military saddle hung a case of pistols, far beyond the ordinar... ...nd Pandours in Pannonia and Transylvania, and the Cossacks from the Polish frontier, and robbers, banditti, and barbar- ians of all countries besides,... ...rom a contented people,—after all this, and without even the pretext for a national grievance, the same men have, upon doubts and suspicions, equally ... ...good,” said the cautious Captain. “In the meantime, let us labour for your liberation.” T o examine Ranald’s chain was the next occupation. It was und...

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... with a slight tonsorial baldness—a penny might cover it—of the crown. His front is convex. He droops at times like most of us, but for the greater pa... ... to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lantern, which sometimes jams and... ...e, developed a technical jargon and professed the discovery of “laws.” Our liberation from these false presumptions through the rhetoric of Carlyle an... ...tle irregular, and a partial confession of girders and pillars breaks this front of tender colour with lines and mouldings of greenish gray, that blen... ...s shoulders, and shows us the palms of his hands. On earth, where there is nationality, this would have been a Frenchman—the inferior sort of Frenchma... ...lear evening sky. “Don’t you think that rather more beautiful than—say—our National Gallery?” He looks at it critically. “There’s a lot of metal in it... ...ate has shaped itself; poietic men have arisen first in this department of national life, and then that, and have given place to kinetic men of a high...

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...ping hat, hung it on the fender to dry, and stretched herself on tiptoe in front of the round eagle-crowned mirror, above the mantel vases of dyed imm... ...rusticity? Hadn’t he noticed, she asked, that cooking always expressed the national character, and that French food was clever and amusing just becaus... ...lady stood. She held a parasol above her head, and looked now at the house-front, with its double flight of steps meeting before a glazed door under s... ...ordered the drive. From her seat she had a diagonal view of the long house-front and of the domed chapel terminating one of the wings. Beyond a gate i... ... sionately abetted him it was partly because, as she owned, she wanted his liberation to coincide with hers. The lady who was to represent, in the imp... ...see how completely she has identified herself with Monsieur de Chantelle’s nationality and adopted French hab- its and prejudices. Y et when anything ... ...When at last he found her alone in her sitting-room it was with a sense of liberation so great that he sought no logical justification of it. He simpl...

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...ed houses, for the work-people, and a large range of workshops and offices fronting the sea. This was Miss Mohun’s district, and at a better-looking h... ...ies who had rushed up the back stairs just as Miss Mohun had darted up the front, so as to behold, on the landing between the two, the boys, one spinn... ...n- glish or Irish. I believe he kept a shop in Malta.’ ‘Quite a mixture of nationalities then, and no wonder she is beautiful. That youth had a very s... ...to Aunt Jane. That the children should have to use the back instead of the front stair when coming in with dusty or muddy shoes, and that their posses... ...bout the family. ‘No, there are the two little boys. We let them go to the National School for the present. It is a great trial to my poor mother, but... ...he told Gillian, by her little brother Theodore, who learnt to draw at the National School, and had the same turn for art as herself. Altogether, the ... ...his military life as the just cross of his wrong-doing in entering it. His liberation and Mr. White’s kindness had not altered this frame. He was too ...

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...right!” and turning on his heel, was about to re-enter the hostelry by the front gate, beneath which D’Artagnan on arriving had observed a saddled hor... ...rds had given to the physiognomy of the stranger. The latter rose from the front of the window, upon the sill of which he had leaned with his elbow, a... ...of crimson velvet fell in graceful folds from his shoulders, disclosing in front the splen- did baldric, from which was suspended a gigantic rapier. T... ...was at home. As she told the queen, she had not seen her husband since his liberation; she was ignorant of the change that had taken place in him with... ... they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu—the French minister, the national minister—would be ruined. The king, even while obeying him like a ... ...assage. “I ask it humbly of you, my Lord” said he; “sign the order for the liberation of Milady de Winter. Remember that she is a woman whom you have ... ...otice of his people, without absolutely shouting. “Sign, my Lord; sign the liberation of Milady de Winter,” said Felton, holding out paper to the duke...

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...treet below. She wore a dark blue dress, with a small lace ruff opening in front, deep cuffs to match, and a white apron likewise edged with lace, and... ...rs of the Roses, and rebuilt in the later fashion, with a friendly-looking front, containing two large windows, and a porch projecting between them. T... ... as much space as the castle itself. A pleasant, smooth, grass lawn lay in front, and on it converged the avenues of oaks and walnuts, stretching towa... ...ERN VERN IT WAS QUITE TRUE that at this period Queen Mary had good hope of liberation in the most satisfactory manner possible— short of being hailed ... ...ng but his own security, and even she had been forced to perceive that her liberation was again adjourned. “And what think you was her thought when sh... ...ion, but perceived clearly that he merely considered her as a rival, whose liberation would en- danger his throne, and that whatever scruples he might... ...visit town, and above all such travellers as these, bringing news of grand national achievements. V ery soon after Gilbert’s accession to the heirship...