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...y meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. The disturbers of 8 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume ... ...atronage is to be sustained, then why allow of any lingering or doubt- ful force to what must often operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which ca... ... operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which carries with it any legal force, annihilates pa- tronage. Patronage would thus be exercised only on s... ... colorable claims of right are created by prescription. What was the exact force of the ‘call,’ no man could say. In like manner, the exact char- acte... ...n possible? We seek not to refine; but all moral power issues out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of rel... ... are seldom smaller than a man, exerting his whole force, can conveniently lift and throw with one hand.’ Thence, in fact, and from no other cause, co... ...p chermadia, ‘such as twice five men in our degen- erate days could barely lift,’ launching them at light-armed foes, who positively would not come ne...

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...;” instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, “S t e a m boat a comin’!” and the scene changes! The t... ... his hand; the pent steam is screaming through the gauge cocks, the captain lifts his hand, a bell rings, the wheels stop; then they turn back, churn... ... fainter and farther away the scowmen’s curses drifted, the higher Mr. Bixby lifted his voice and the weightier his ad jectives grew. When he closed ... ...e little gaps. But of course my complacency could hardly get start enough to lift my nose a trifle into the air, before Mr. Bixby would think of somet... ...ere Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 55 scudding astern like rats—and lifted up these commands to me ever so gently— “Stop the starboard. Stop ... ...en faithfully standing up the middle of the river, fight ing the whole vast force of the Mississippi, and whistling the same placid tune. This thing ... ...ociation) that if any captain employed a non association pilot, he should be forced to discharge him, and also pay a fine of five hundred dollars. Sev... ...on. It is greatly restricted now. Next, boots began to appear. Not in strong force, how ever. Later—away down the Mississippi—they became the rule. T... ...o getting by it. It lay be tween the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected acr...

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...indeed, with the Night they were uttered in, are to be forever remembered. Lifting his huge tumbler 12 Sartor Resartus of Gukguk,* and for a moment l... ...readed worse than the pestilence; nevertheless, to such length he had been forced to com- ply. Glad would he have been to sit here philosophizing fore... ...easand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart,”—the force of that rapt earnestness may be felt, and here and there an arrow of ... ...he matter; and there not only hits the nail on the head, but with crushing force smites it home, and buries it.—On the other hand, let us be free to a... ...ling: what will the last do? Achieve the final undisputed pros- tration of Force under Thought, of Animal courage under Spiritual. A simple invention ... ...thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward Force, the ‘phantasy of our Dream;’ or what the Earth-Spirit in Faust names... ... as- tonished couple, now with lit candle, hastily turned their attention. Lifting the green veil, to see what invaluable it hid, they descried there,... ..., if not arson itself? Nowise so does Teufelsdrockh deport him. He quietly lifts his Pilgerstab (Pilgrim-staff), “old business being soon wound up;” a... ...not to be accomplished on horseback. Arrived aloft, he finds himself again lifted into the evening 110 Sartor Resartus sunset light; and cannot but p...

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...did heaue, with all their powre and might, Thinking the vtmost of their force to trie, And proue the finall fortune of the fight: But C... ...eare Of a discourteous Knight, who her had reft, And by outragious force away did beare: Witnesse thereof he shew’d his head there left... ...rear’d her from the ground whereon she lay, And in his tender armes her forced vp to stay. The Faerie Queene: Book VI. 36 So well he did hi... ...s foe t’assayle, or how himselfe to gard, But with fierce fury and with force infest Vpon him ran; who being well prepard, His first as... ...d did lay, And held the same so hard, that by no wize He could him force to loose, or leaue his enterprize. Long did he wrest and wring... ...hich by her side did passe. She was a Ladie of great dignitie, And lifted vp to honorable place, Famous through all the land of Faerie,... ... well aware, how ye the same doe vse, That pride doe not to tyranny you lift; Least if men you of cruelty accuse, He from you take that...

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... of men to appear to maintain them. It was I, the other time, who had been forced into the breach, standing up there for an odious lamplit moment to e... ...nt reason for his having left her to starve. “He doesn’t seem to have much force of character,” said my young lady; at which I laughed out so loud tha... ...adn’t often made it my- self. The difference was that on Gravener’s part a force attached to it that could never attach to it on mine. He was ABLE to ... ...rge Gravener could stand straight enough be- fore any other combination of forces. It amused me to think that the combination he had succumbed to had ... ...- less, yet superficial some surrender to youth and beauty and passion, to force and grace and fortune, happy acci- dents and easy contacts. They migh... ...d it enabled her to go on: “What can one do when a person has given such a lift to one’s interest in life?” “Yes, what can one do?” If I struck her as... ...late murmur—”Poor George 51 Henry James Gravener!” What had become of the lift HE had given that interest? Later on I made up my mind that she was so... ...h it. Then, as for his alienation, he didn’t, pardonably enough, grasp the lift Frank Saltram had given her interest in life. If a mere spectator coul...

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...f I put mine up too?’ returned Mortimer. ‘Thank you. I hate mine.’ ‘It was forced upon me,’ said the gloomy Eugene, ‘because it was understood that we... ... we wanted a barrister in the family. We have got a precious one.’ ‘It was forced upon me,’ said Mortimer, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a... ...grounds, like so much moral sewage, and to be pausing until its own weight forced it over the bank and sunk it in the river. In and out among vessels ... ...he whole was very indistinctly seen in the obscurity of the night. The boy lifted the latch of the door, and they passed at once into a low circu- lar... ... stood dropsically bulging over the causeway, ‘for a half-a-pint.’ The boy lifted the latch he had lifted before, and found his sister again seated be... ...ver, in a hand-valise with which he did disembark, the sum realized by the forced sale of his little landed property, and that the sum exceeded, in re... ...hesitating hand on a corner of the table, and with another hesitating hand lifting the crown of his hat to his lips, and drawing it before his mouth. ... ...or boy gets no good of it. He gets made away with, at the moment when he’s lifting (as one may say) the cup and sarser to his lips. Mr Lightwood, I wi... ...ay be shamed the more. A lull, and the wind is secret and prying with him; lifts and lets falls a rag; hides palpitating under another rag; runs nimbl...

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...ad sud-denly appeared to him that perhaps in a battle he might run. He was forced to admit that as far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself... ...eat him severely. The youth felt, however, that his problem was in no wise lifted from him. There was, on the contrary, an irritating prolongation. Th... ...s of a row of dragons ad-vancing. He turned toward the colonel and saw him lift his gigantic arm and calmly stroke his mustache. At last he heard from... ...The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulner- able dead man forced a way for him-self. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The w... ...ne for an instant in the faces on the mad current made the youth feel that forceful hands from heaven would not have been able to have held him in pla... ... eyes wild with one desire. The sight of this stampede exerted a floodlike force that seemed able to drag sticks and stones and men from the ground. T... ...g against such affairs, wound up perhaps to fight until sundown. He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed ... ...poke with dogged valor. The precise gunners were coolly enthusiastic. They lifted their eyes every chance to the smoke-wreathed hillock from whence th... ...im-becile line had remained and become victors. He could hear cheering. He lifted himself upon his toes and looked in the direction of the fight. A ye...

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...ca. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run the... ...rched over me a dismal gloom, While all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down to doom. “I saw the opening maw of hell, With endles... ...ther answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited an- swer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him. “‘I am a Hebrew... ...self a castaway!” He dropped and fell away from himself for a moment; then lifting his face to them again, showed a deep joy in his eyes, as he cried ... ...an Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the sti... ...n Melville “Seven hundred and seventy-seventh,” again said Bildad, without lifting his eyes; and then went on mumbling—”for where your treasure is, th... ...st there!” And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force open the door. “I don’t allow it; I won’t have my premises spoiled. G... ...in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.” “Peleg! Peleg!” said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, “thou thyself, as I myself, hast seen many a pe... ...hance the 119 Herman Melville most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman’s arm wit...

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...ant, as she pressed 5 Edith Wharton the dishevelled daisy to her lips and lifted her large eyes to the sophisticated countenance of the little brown ... ... Beaufort’s heavy brown-stone palace, and drew all the world there without lifting her jewelled little finger. The knowing people said it was Beaufort... ... don’t mean mine, my dear? I like all the novelties,” said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfi... ...s own house, even if his sense of humour some- times made him question the force of his mandate. On this occasion the young man was very sure that Mr.... ...“apparently Count Olenski takes your view; for I never heard of his having lifted a finger to get his wife back.” VI. THA T EVENING, after Mr. Jackson... ...et felt obliged to simulate reluctance, and the air of having had her hand forced, quite as, in the books on Primitive Man that people of advanced cul... ... begun to measure the risks of the championship which his en- gagement had forced upon him. A FEW DAYS LATER the bolt fell. The Lovell Mingotts had se... ... your fam- ily can advise you; explain differences; show you the way.” She lifted her thin black eyebrows. “Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it... ... be one in which a woman naturally sensitive and aloof would yet, from the force of circumstances, from sheer defencelessness and loneli- ness, be dra...

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....................................................... 119 CHAPTER XX OF THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION ......................................................... ... the result, accompanied by illustrations abound- ing with originality and force, he delivered to his fellow-men in a book. Eloquence, rhetorical effe... ...lea- sure and fortitude.” And then, as they were holding his mouth open by force to give him a draught, he observed to M. de Belot: “An vivere tanti e... ...ve; if the current once commences in your favour, it will go on of its own force to the end. I could have desired much that the private gain of the so... ...ance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. We see her, at every turn, forcing and violating the rule... ... with the most mortal aim, swimming; where, for a sign of subjection, they lift up their shoulders, and hang down their heads; where they put off thei... ... pleases the sun to communicate to us, by virtue of his rays; and who will lift up his eyes to take in a greater, let him not think it strange, if for... ...a mine under a great part of the wall, the mine being sprung, the wall was lifted from its base, but dropped down again nevertheless, whole and entire... ...vention to come to the fourth, and, mounting to the pitch of that, he will lift up his hands in admiration; coming to the last, the first by some spac...

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...r suggested by every cotter’s little rick, with its thatch straw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoc... ... heard this, while I stood on the shore, looking in his kind wholesome face as it turned to the spot where the boat had been. The divers were down the... ...ke sea-shells; but most other golden treasure would be found. As it was brought up, it went aboard the Tug-steamer, where good account was taken of it... ...-work: in which, also, several loose sovereigns that the ingot had swept in be- fore it, had been found, as firmly embedded as though the iron had bee... ...blished for us in the Theatre. The sand- wich—as substantial as was consistent with portability, and as cheap as possible—we hailed as one of our grea... ...cantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!’ The uncommercial transaction which had brought me and Jack together, was this:- I had enter... ...ould not be beasts. But, when they had got over their bad propensities, and when, as a conse- quence, their heads had swelled alarmingly, their hair h... ...with terror. At innumerable inn doors when the weather was bad, I was obliged to be put into my vehicle before the Bottle could be got in, and was obl... ...the essence and nature of things, as a certain school of Britons would seem to think it, that a Capital must be ensnared and enslaved before it can be...

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...foremost in 4 Waverley the charge, and observing an officer of the King’s forces, who, scorning to join the flight of all around, remained with his s... ... to compare it with those of the last war, when Edinburgh, besides regular forces and militia, furnished a vol- unteer brigade of cavalry, infantry, a... ...f six thousand men and upwards, which was in readiness to meet and repel a force of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the advent... ...rstood to have resolved to avoid them as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narra- tive upon the characters and passions of the actors;—tho... ...enuine ancient fragment, with some alteration in the last two lines.] Here lifting up his eyes, which had hither&o been fixed in observing how his fee... ...himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple. ... ...t disappeared the light it had hitherto afforded. Four or five active arms lifted W averley out of the boat, placed him on his feet, and almost carrie... ...aler—a common thief!’ ‘Common thief!—no such thing: Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life.’ ‘Do you call him an uncommon thief, ... ...als a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, ...

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...he secret. For three long hours my uncle worked on without a word, without lifting his head; rubbing out, beginning again, then rubbing out again, and... ... “Uncle!” I cried. He seemed not to hear me. “Uncle Liedenbrock!” I cried, lifting up my voice. “Ay,” he answered like a man suddenly waking. “Uncle, ... ...ns, which in my opinion were far more serious. “Well, then,” I said, “I am forced to admit that Saknussemm’s sentence is clear, and leaves no room for... ...be, the fiery gases arising from the fused matter would acquire an elastic force which the crust of the earth would be unable to resist, and that it w... ...d surf-beaten coasts. Forty-eight hours after, coming out of a storm which forced the schooner to scud under bare poles, we sighted east of us the bea... ...quantity of gun cotton, which is unaffected by moisture, and the explosive force of which exceeds that of gunpowder. *Ruhmkorff ’s apparatus consists ... ...s openings through tall chimneys. Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the s... ...nt on. Another three hours, and I saw no bottom to the chimney yet. When I lifted my head I perceived the gradual contrac- tion of its aperture. Its w... ...es not less terrible; a tortoise forty feet long, and a serpent of thirty, lifting its fearful head and gleaming eyes above the flood. Flight was out ...

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...mato vines and “jimpson” weeds that consti tuted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted: “Y o... ...rs “showed off” — bending sweetly over pupils that were lately being boxed, lifting pretty warning fingers at bad little boys and patting good ones l... ...t stunning surprise of the decade, and so profound was the sensation that it lifted the new hero up to the judi cial one’s altitude, and the school h... ...always called upon to read poetry; and when he was through, the ladies would lift up their hands and let them fall helplessly in their laps, and “wall... ...ary of captivity, sighing for change. He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged. He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt at it f... ...that troubled the dead stillness. Tom’s reflections grew oppressive. He must force some talk. So he said in a whisper: “Hucky, do you believe the dead... ...why shouldn’t they? What right had the friendless to complain? Yes, they had forced him to it at last: he would lead a life of crime. There was no cho... ..., never hear that old familiar sound any more — it was very hard, but it was forced on him; since he was driven out into the cold world, he must submi... ... distinct note of. But now this mysterious sound became more pronounced, and forced a recognition. The boys started, glanced at each other, and then e...

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...and villany: Single you thither then this dainty doe, And strike her home by force, if not by words: This way, or not at all, stand you in hope. Come,... ...ill have his soul black like his face. [Exit.] TITUS ANDRONICUS : O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven, And bow this feeble ruin to the earth: I... ...e thy sorrow, till the heavens Reveal the damn’d contriver of this deed. Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus? MARCUS ANDRONICUS : I think she ... ...ert thou thus surprised, sweet girl, Ravish’d and wrong’d, as Philomela was, Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see! Ay, such a plac... ...th his staff, and guides it with feet and mouth .] Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift! Write thou good niece; and here display, at last... ...ands or tongue, her spotless chastity, Inhuman traitors, you constrain’d and forced. What would you say, if I should let you speak? Villains, for sham...

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...een dismissed,” continued Caderousse. “Well, and what then?” said Fernand, lifting up his head, and look- ing at Caderousse like a man who looks for s... ...self to dash headlong upon his rival, when Mercedes, smiling and graceful, lifted up her lovely head, and looked at them with her clear and bright eye... ...” Fernand filled Caderousse’s glass, who, like the confirmed toper he was, lifted his hand from the paper and seized the glass. The Catalan watched hi... ...per’s reign; officers who had de- serted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and ... ...e among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them.” “You are wrong; you should always strive to see clear... ...the name of the person to whom it was ad- dressed,” said Villefort. “I was forced to read the address to know to whom to give it.” “Have you shown thi... ...mes. He had advanced at first, but stopped at the sight of this display of force. “Are you come to fetch me?” asked he. Alexandre Dumas 63 “Yes,” rep... ...gain,” replied Faria. “This arm is paralyzed; not for a time, but forever. Lift it, and judge if I am mistaken.” The young man raised the arm, which f... ...ten, you see that I do not recover, then pour the rest down my throat. Now lift me on my bed, for I can no longer support myself.” Edmond took the old...

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...tals On the side of me which you in the village could see. From the dust I lift a voice of protest: My flowering side you never saw! Y e living ones, ... ...s, ye are fools indeed Who do not know the ways of the wind And the unseen forces That govern the processes of life. Amanda Barker HENRY got me with c... ... mighty shade here who sings Of one named Beatrice; And I see now that the force that made him great Drove me to the dregs of life. Homer Clapp OFTEN ... ...l the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat. ... ...poke of the giant strength Of Willard Shafer, and of his wonderful feat Of lifting a traction engine out of the ditch One time at Georgie Kirby’s. So ... ...In truth you are only looking around the interior of your tub. Y ou cannot lift yourself to its rim And see the outer world of things, And at the same... ...ight too bright for eyes, And woke to face a Truth with bloody brow: Steel forceps fumbled by a doctor’s hand Against my boy’s head as he entered life... ... audacity, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers,... ... on the steps of a marble temple. Great multitudes passed in front of her, Lifting their faces to her imploringly. In her left hand she held a sword. ...

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...y brought the sinful woman to him. “‘So when they continued asking him, he lifted up him self and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, l... ... thus I left her, with a sorrowful heart. She went in before my boxes were lifted to the coach roof and shut the door. As long as I could see the hous... ...but made another snort. It was such a powerful one that it seemed quite to lift him out of his seat. “Mr. Skimpole,” said Richard to me, “has a delica... ... it ought to be the name of Mrs. Snagsby, seeing that she might with great force and expression be termed a Guster, in compliment to her stormy charac... ..., broad backed, old fash ioned, mahogany and horsehair chairs, not easily lifted; ob solete tables with spindle legs and dusty baize covers; pre se... ...m going on to the Fields at present. Good evening. Thank you!” Mr. Snagsby lifts his hat and returns to his little woman and his tea. But Mr. Tulkingh... ...ther filing a bill, I was obliged to go into this accursed Chancery; I was forced there because the law forced me and would let me go nowhere else. Se... ...unctual as the sun,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “Military time, sir,” he replied. “Force of habit. A mere habit in me, sir. I am not at all business like.” “Y... ...se of parliamentary cheer ing and gets Mr. Chadband’s steam up. From mere force of habit, Mr. Chadband in saying “My friends!” has rested his eye on ...

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...irt sleeves at the door of his very clean little tavern waiting for me. He lifted off his hat with both hands when he saw me coming, and carrying it s... ...nderstand how such a nature as my guardian’s, experienced in the world and forced to contemplate the miserable evasions and conten tions of the famil... ... to be, takes off his close black gloves as if he were skinning his hands, lifts off his tight hat as if he were scalping himself, and sits down at hi... ...roperty, Mr. Weevle? That’s well, that’s well. Ha! Ha! We should have been forced to sell you up, sir, to pay your warehouse room if you had left it h... ...lf so, pray!” Bleak House – Volume Two 75 As they go upstairs, Mr. Guppy lifts his eyebrows inquir ingly and looks at T ony. T ony shakes his head.... ...is this? ‘Lady Dedlock.’ Ha! A very good likeness in its way, but it wants force of character. Good day to you, gentlemen; good day!” When he has walk... ...entive curiosity, as he watches the struggle in her breast, “The power and force of this woman are astonishing!” “Sir,” she says, for the moment oblig... ...thing”; but he has scarcely laid his fingers on the wounded place when she lifts it up to the light. “Aye! A bad bruise, and the skin sadly broken. Th... ...orry to say I have known them cruel to their wives too.” The woman hastily lifts up her eyes as if she would deny that her injury is referable to such...

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...tue is not less valid in the mouth of him who hates it, forasmuch as truth forces it from him, and if he will not inwardly receive it, he at least put... ...his state, compelled to forfeit his word and break his faith, or otherwise forced from his ordinary duty, ought to attribute this necessity to a lash ... ...nfancy it has ever been one: the same inclination, the same turn, the same force; and as to universal opinions, I fixed myself from my childhood in th... ...nsider what it is now, but what it was then, when I deliberated on it: the force of all counsel consists in the time; occasions and things eternally s... ...not see it, if he knows not what it is, and cannot discern its graces, its force, and most alluring beauties; I know both the one and the other, and m... ... their ears in hearing the in- structions given them, their eyes and hands lifted up towards heaven, their voices in loud prayers, with a vehement and... ... more vigour and strength in the bearer than in the burden; he who has not lifted as much as he can, leaves you to guess that he has still a strength ... ...ur a day together. I raise my courage, well enough against inconveniences: lift up my eyes I cannot: “Sensus, o superi, sensus.” [“The sense...