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... emblems. Another lay brother led a sumpter mule, loaded probably with his superior’s baggage; and two monks of his own order, of inferior station, ro... ...wing conver- sation in the Norman-French language, usually employed by the superior classes, with the exception of the few who were still inclined to ... ...nd waited the commands of the Saxon dignitary. T wo or three servants of a superior order stood behind their master upon the dais; the rest occupied t... ...e hermit cast a wistful look upon the knight, in which there was a sort of comic expression of hesitation, as if uncer- tain how far be should act pru... ...be expressed by features. His smile, too, had something in it irresistibly comic, and gave an assurance of faith and loyalty, with which his host coul... ... those whom they loved par amours; but the explanation did not satisfy the big- oted Beaumanoir. “There is more in it than thou dost guess, Conrade; t... ...lease you, fair sir.” The Jester next struck into another carol, a sort of comic ditty, to which the Knight, catching up the tune, replied in the like...

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...ong as he was on the current of a meditation, such as comes to many of us, big with the future and rendered solemn by the past. After a while he heard... ...Such were the truths these artists made him feel. Small, ill-made, without superiority of mind or settled pur- pose, what chance was there for a man l... ...ted to struggle against circumstances, having an in- ward consciousness of superior faculties without the will that could put them in action, feeling ... ...seph, and Alain; and as during the last few days he had also noticed their superiority and intelligence, and the vast extent of their knowledge; he co... ...y left into it, and we held them together,—I deeply moved, and he with two big tears rolling down his cheeks. The sight of those tears wrung my heart.... ... end of six months. His hopes, he said, were now fixed on the success of a comic opera called ‘Les Peruviens.’ When he said that I began to tremble. M...

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...On my return, Jenny, I shall refurnish your room in su- perior style. That big Matilda, who pesters you with com- parisons and her real India shawls i... ...o can get out of things like that,’ said that little cricket Lamard to the big Bulot at the cafe, when he told him the story. “I leave to-morrow for A... ...dlord, betook himself to the knave of Vouvray, the jovial merry-maker, the comic man of the neighborhood, compelled by fame and nature to supply the t... ...acy; dragging things down to their own level; and at war with all kinds of superiority, which they deposited with the fine composure of ignorance. Mon... ...y my mission is of higher importance, and should place me, in the minds of superior people, among those who devote themselves to the enlightenment of ...

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... acquainted with the inferior part of mankind teach him the manners of the superior. And though it may be thought that the knowledge of either may suf... ...promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical incidents. The serjeant asked Partridge whither he ... ...darling be already no more), while I mention the uneasiness with which the big muse bears about her burden, the painful labour with which she produces... ... young lady’s delicacy. Accidents of this kind we have never regarded in a comical light; nor will we scruple to say, that he must have a very inadequ... ...ve since experienced how much I deserved it. You, my Sophia, was always my superior in everything, and I heartily hope you will be so in your fortune.... ...scribe his barbarity? To my fondness he was cold and insensible. My little comical ways, which you, my Sophy, and which others, have called so agreeab... ...ild, it was envy, the worst and most ran corous kind of envy, the envy of superiority of understand ing. The wretch could not bear to see my convers... ...d and firm, the flounder as much alive as when in the water, the shrimp as big as a prawn, the fine cod alive but a few hours ago, or any other of the... ...ve lessons be con veyed this way, as well as any other? My figures are as big as the life, and they represent the life in every particular; and I que...

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...suspected ability and his powerful presence had roused in the minds of his superiors. His health having seriously failed him during the last year, it ... ... sa- gacity, except her nephew the Baron de Listomere, who re- marked in a comic tone to Monsieur de Bourbonne, “I would like to have seen a fight bet... ...not know of it himself; and because it is in the nature of things that the comical is often mingled with the pathetic, the singular replies of the poo... ... and before an as- sembled party, one of those priestly speeches which are big with vengeance and soft with honied mildness. The Baron de Listomere we... ...clesiastical discipline, the curate of Saint-Symphorien was suspended. His superiors judged him guilty. The murderer of Sophie Gamard was also a swind...

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...sleep for envy. The gigantic footmen who accompanied the vehicles were too big to be contained in Becky’s little hall, and were billeted off in the ne... ...f the age, which admitted persons of all classes into the society of their superiors, but her ladyship owned that this one at least was well behaved a... ... is a musical one—and, to the surprise of the oriental travellers, sings a comic song, composed by Mr. Wagg. The Eastern voyagers go off dancing, like... ...how. He thought with a feeling very like pain how immeasurably she was his superior. When the hour of departure came, a crowd of young men followed he... ... played single-stick with the mates, ran up the shrouds like a boy, sang a comic song one night to the amusement of the whole party assembled over the... ...what point—the fertilizing stream of the Pump. In some places the river is big enough to support a ferry-boat, in others to turn a mill; in Pum- perni... ...nd garden are now in rather a faded condition, and not more than ten times big enough to accommodate the Court of the reigning Sovereign. The gardens ... ...arcastic curtsey. “I couldn’t stand up in the passage,” he answered with a comical deprecatory look; and, delighted to give her his arm and to take he... ...lications to Jos; but the civilian was not a little jealous of the airs of superiority which the Major con- stantly exhibited towards him, as he fanci...

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...eir, Lord Fitzjocelyn—a position which had brought on him dislike from the superior servants, who were not propitiated by his independent and insubord... ...Dynevor T errace—a row of houses with handsome cemented fronts, tragic and comic masks al- ternating over the downstairs windows, and the centre of th... ... com- panionship of a man of domestic tastes, accustomed to the society of superior women. There was nothing to fall back upon, nothing to make a home... ...garden of weeds he’s made of it, and mine into the bargain! He has a great big thistle here, and the down blows right over my beds, thick as snow, so ... ...ld habit, and there always was an illusion that Ormersfield groundsel is a superior article.’ ‘I suppose that is why you grow go much.’ ‘Are you a gar... ...now best!’ returned Charlotte. ‘Mr. Poynings says ’twas a piece of rock as big as that warming- pan as crushed his ankle! and you know—’ ‘I know nothi... ...k—he as killed his wife and lost his son, and made friends with that there big rascal, and had the chest of gold—’ ‘Philip Mortham! Were you going in ... ...tzjocelyn departed so grave, so courteous, so digni- fied, so resolute, so comically like his father, that the old Squire threw himself back in his ch...

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...ies of Morgiana. “What hair,” said he, “what eyes the girl has! they’re as big as billiard-balls; and five thousand pounds. Eglantine’s in luck! five ... ...rson, Master Eglantine,” replied the Captain, with a smile of contemptuous superiority; “you little know the real man of fashion, my good fellow. Simp... ...agazines under his arm, and an umbrella and a little brown frock-coat, and big square- toed shoes with which he went papping down the street. He was e... ...pected to see the fascinating stranger so soon again? I think she had. Her big eyes said as much, as, furtively looking up at Mr. W alker’s face, they... ...er, Mrs. Captain Walker, to the box-opener; and Melvil Delamere (the first comic), Canterfield (the tyrant), and Jonesini (the celebrated Fontarabian ... ...r-cellars afterwards, neither the liquor, nor the play, nor the delightful comic songs at the cel- lars, could drive Mrs. Walker out of his head, and ... ...e whole green-room. “They had me up one day,” said Montmorency, “to sing a comic song, and give my recitations; and we had champagne and lobster-salad... ...d respect; and, indeed, from the old gentleman’s peculiar behaviour to his superiors, it is impossible they should not be delighted with him, so he le... ...concerts in the old-fashioned houses in town. Becomingly obsequious to his superiors, he is with the rest of the world properly majestic, and has obta...

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...very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimental, and some light comic business; the whole accompanied by appropriate scenery and brilliantl... ...pot.” “Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, ’tis more genteel.” “Well, a booky as big almost as a haystack; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower wate... ...he least; and who could help attaching herself to Amelia? The happinessthe superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpr... ...ed out on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did h... ...Rebecca Sharp had determined in her heart upon making the conquest of this big beau, I don’t think, ladies, we have any right to blame her; for though... ...e abominable curry before it, and as soon as she could speak, said, with a comical, good-humoured air, “I ought to have remembered the pepper which th... ... of the school, ruled over his sub- jects, and bullied them, with splendid superiority. This one blacked his shoes: that toasted his bread, others wou... ...—the which tokens of homage George received very graciously, as became his superior merit. So that Lieutenant Osborne, when coming to Russell Square o... ... the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there; the country danc...

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...red to a broad, round-shouldered, one-sided old fellow in mourning, coming comically ambling towards the corner, dressed in a pea over-coat, and carry... ... him on the chimney-piece is a Hindoo baby in a bottle, curved up with his big head tucked under him, as he would instantly throw a summersault if the... ...rom being poled! And with a coachman up in front, sinking down into a seat big enough for three of him, all covered with upholstery in green and white... ...each furnished with four staring heads, each head obtrusively car- rying a big silver ring in each of its ears, conveyed the senti- ment up and down t... ...d out his hands with the palms downward, as if to deprecate the wrath of a superior. ‘What have you been up to?’ said Fledgeby , storming at him. ‘Gen... ...me to see us at all. I only wonder that our claims, contending against the superior claims of Mr and Mrs Boffin, had any weight. I feel I ought to be ... ...him. Or, if he was at any time inclined to relieve his mind by sing- ing a comic song or dancing a hornpipe, and was obliged to do it to the Dead Marc... ...with her very pretty eyebrows raised as high as they would go, and looking comically frightened. ‘It’s a fact. I am always avariciously scheming.’ ‘Lo... ...arkable character; is she not?’ ‘She is sufficiently remarkable to be very superior to Mr Eugene W rayburn—though an ordinary person might be that,’ s...

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...soul in its opening years, and who was, moreover, brought up to admire his big brother,—so far from being hurt by the preference of their mother, enco... ..., that soldiers of ge- nius are as gentle and courteous in manner as other superior men in any walk of life. All genius is alike, wherever found. “Poo... ...orthy Giroudeau, with a skull as polished as my knee, forty-eight years, a big stom- ach, a face like a ploughman, and a nose like a potato, can get a... ... a young man of twenty- seven, and above all, the means of proving herself superior to Florentine by the evident superiority of Philippe over Giroudea... ...r affairs. There’s my old Descoings in bed, looking at me with her eyes as big as saucers.” “Be silent, monsieur!” said Agathe, rising. “At least, res... ...orant, and loving to an- noy others, which now related tales, more or less comic, about the relations of Jean-Jacques Rouget with his servant-woman. T... ...ght up at the Ecole Polytechnique, had served in a corps which held itself superior to all others. In the Imperial armies there were two shades of dis... ...ness of this officer had much to do with firmly establishing the weird and comic authority of the Knights of Idleness. Beyond the rue des Minimes and ... ...said Max, taking up his glass and swallowing the contents at a gulp with a comic gesture. Max was then thirty-four years old. A candle standing near h...

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...Antigonus required that Eumenes should first address himself to him as his superior, he replied, “While I am able to wield a sword, I shall think 41 ... ...ask the men else that engaged me, but I could never meet a man that was my superior.” “Therefore,” rejoined Onomarchus, “now you have found such a man... ...ny who contested the office with him, and only by his actions obtained the superiority. They followed the one honestly, out of desire to be commanded ... ... been to revenge the quarrel of the conquered, you might then say with the comic poet, The combatants are waiting to begin, Smearing their hands with ... ...great applause in the theater, and in a verse which he introduced into the comic part which he was acting, begged for a present of ten talents, he lau... ...commodation. Favonius bade him now stamp upon the ground; for once talking big in the senate, he desired them not to trouble themselves about making a... ...em. He himself narrowly escaped; for taking hold of one of his soldiers, a big and strong man, that was flying by him, he bade him stand and face abou... ... Megalopolis, in a battle against the tyrant Aristodemus; he left his wife big with child, and on her being delivered of a son, Leonidas, son of the a... ...was drawn up by the Samian writer, Lynceus. Upon this occasion, one of the comic writers gave Lamia the name of the real Helepolis; and Demochares of ...

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...e days a mere necessity of schoolboy life at public schools; and hence the superior manliness, generosity, and self-con- trol of those generally who h... ...n for a moment in the infinity of his con- tempt; and before long, when my superiority in some book- ish accomplishments displayed itself, by results ... ...t predestined rebel upon earth against all assumptions, small or great, of superiority,—she arranged a mutiny, that had the unexpected effect of sudde... ...orests. Every touch from her, every velvety pat, drew blood. And something comic mingled with what my mother felt to be paramount tragedy. Far differe... ...Thomas de Quincey “Did you observe,” said he, “that ill-looking fellow, as big as a camel, who stood on the landlord’s left hand? “Was it the man, I a... ... fact, according to the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s itty reply to Miss Knight, big enough for an island. But our transatlantic brothers, dwell- ing upon s...

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...ave come of a marketing mother. She had started him from a small shop to a big one. He, by the 4 The House on the Beach practice of her virtues, had ... ...f I did n’t go in—crash! But what the deuce do you do, carrying that great big looking- glass at night, man? And, look here tell me; how was it you ha... ...en an accident? Are you hurt?” “Not a bit, Netty; not a bit. Walked into a big looking- glass in the dark, that’s all. A matter of eight or ten pound,... ..., who made a point of asking for a sight of the chief man; and then came a comic publication, all in the Republican tone of the time, with Man’s Digni... .... This determined him. It should here be observed that he was by birth the superior of Annette’s parentage, and such is the sentiment of a better bloo... ...hy not young ladies? Those who write of their perplexities in descriptions comical in their length are unkind to them, by making them appear the simpl...

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... formality of behaviour in him who entertained it. This haughty feeling of superiority was perhaps equally entertained by his new European acquaintanc... ...s veil of mist. The motions of the lady of his love were to him those of a superior being, who was to move without watch or con- trol, rejoice him by ... ...hich throws fetters even on love itself forbade her, notwith- standing the superiority of her condition, to make those ad- vances, which, in every cas... ... might choose the Archduke of Austria,” said De Vaux. “What! because he is big and burly like thyself, Thomas— nearly as thick-headed, but without thy... ...of talk, with his jingling baton. These two personages threw out grave and comic nonsense 135 Sir Walter Scott alternately; while their master, laugh...

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...y diminishing resistance; till at last I let myself go as if recognising a superior influence against which it was useless to contend. The years passe... ...n. As I moved slowly towards the aban- doned body of the tale it loomed up big amongst the glittering shallows of the coast, lonely but not forbidding... ... SHALLOW SEA that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centu- rie... ...earth of their islands—has fallen a prey to the western race—the reward of superior strength if not of superior virtue. To-morrow the advancing civili... ...hite man on board of her besides the captain. He felt himself immeasurably superior to the Malay sea- men whom he had to handle, and treated them with... ...uch bigger than a large ape, and wearing on his wrinkled face that look of comical truculence which is often characteristic of men from the southweste... ... change, Shaw,” he said. “No, sir, not much. I can just see the island—the big one—still in the same place. It strikes me, sir, that, for calms, this ... ...metimes above the occasion when things were bound to oc- cur that would be comic or tragic (as it happened) but generally charged with trouble even to...

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... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ...s in sight he rose, and, in spite of the remonstrances of his comrades and superiors, insisted on taking his post, saying he preferred death in the se... ...ff in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower dropping tears as big as walnuts. Nay, it may well be that on those journeys into remote regi... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ... in, the house- keeper with them, and found more than a hundred volumes of big books very well bound, and some other small ones. The moment the housek... ...th reading more books of chivalry, he told the housekeeper to take all the big ones and throw them into the yard. It was not said to one dull or deaf,... ...valry, no other laudation would have been requisite to impress upon me the superiority of her understanding, for it could not have been of the excelle... ...free and easy, fell in love with a sturdy strapping young lay-brother; his superior came to know of it, and one day said to the worthy widow by way of... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar...

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...ese beauteous birds behold, They’re brought here to be sold. And first the big one see, So full of roguish glee! With light and merry bound He leaps u... ... the small one see! A modest look has he, And yet he’s such apother As his big roguish brother. ’Tis chiefly when all’s still He loves to show his wil... ... drown’d. SOLO. To a little fellow, quiet, Unpretending and subdued, Has a big clown, running riot, Been to-day extremely rude. I bethought me of my d... ... the celebrated Min- strel-Cobbler of Nuremberg, who Wrote 208 plays, 1700 comic tales, and between 4000 and 5000 lyric poems. He flourished throughou... ..., who is so much esteem’d, And who is worthy of all honour, Saw Beauty his superior deem’ d By folks who loved to gaze upon her; At this he was most s... ...urs and brothers, and sent on missions whole herds of selfÄseekers And the superiors took to carousing and robbing by wholesale, And the inferiors dow...

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...had never dreamed of, and yet wouldn’t for the world have had her feel his superiority. But she did feel it, and liked the feeling; for it was new to ... ...ct that lawyer Royall was “the biggest man in North Dor- mer”; so much too big for it, in fact, that outsiders, who didn’t 11 Edith Wharton know, alw... ... slightest gratitude, she pitied him because she was conscious that he was superior to the people about him, and that she was the only being be- tween... ... of her origin related to the one being in whose eyes she longed to appear superior to the people about her! She had noticed that Mr. Royall had not n... ...as a poisonous tangle of nettles, burdocks and tall swamp-weeds over which big blue-bottles hummed. At the sound of wheels a child with a tow-head and... ...with me I’ll do it. If you’ll marry me we’ll leave here and settle in some big town, where there’s men, and business, and things doing. It’s not too l... ... a chaos of palms and minarets, charging cavalry regiments, roaring lions, comic policemen and scowling mur- derers; and the crowd around her, the hun...

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...ter leaves he will be head porter. His 11 H.G . Wells relatives are quite superior people, m’m. Not labouring people at all. His father was a greengr... ...m a book. “‘Smiles’ ‘Elp Yourself,’ it’s called,” said Jane; “but it ain’t comic. It tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read ... ...ink, go so far as to lay hands on him. They dealt with her in a crushingly superior way. They “called a cab.” There was a “scene,” William being pulle... ...still silent, sat down abruptly in the chair by her little work-table. His big hands were clenched; one saw now 18 The Country of the Blind the fire ... ...mised to show you the works,” he said to Raut, and 19 H.G . Wells put his big, clumsy hand on his friend’s shoulder. “And you are ready to go?” “Quit... ...craved vainly to know. Then she sank down into a crouching attitude in the big arm-chair, her eyes-wide open and staring out at the red lights from th... ..., always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she w... ...it poisoned his triumph in Wedderburn. Previously he had been Wedderburn’s superior in his own eyes, and had raged simply at a want of recognition. No... ...y. A rather “touristy” friend of his took him away at times. He complained comically to Miss Winchelsea. “I have only two short weeks in Rome,” he sai...