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...e of maize flour which they said was “ mamaliga”, and egg plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call “ impletata”. (Mem., ge... ...spired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkeyland, who, when he was beaten back... ...nity which I might not have again, so I exerted myself,and with many efforts forced it back so that I could enter. I was now in a wing of the castle f... ...ut I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge down ward, at the hateful face. B... ...at I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. When duty, a cause, etc., is the ... ...s old Mr. Swales. He is making straight for me, and I can see, by the way he lifts his hat, that he wants to talk. I have been quite touched by the ... ..., help us! Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out. If so we... ... little miss, here is your medicine. Drink it off, like a good child. See, I lift you so that to swallow is easy. Yes.” She had made the effort with ... ...siness, but I Chapter 11 169 `ave made pets of several. ’ and with that he lifts his ‘at as perlite as a lord, and walks away. Old Bersicker kep’ a ...

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...touch it. They spend all their blessed time in governing it, and you can’t lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that, wi... ...y all falls down flat. Then he walks over them and kicks them, and then he lifts them up and shakes hands all round to make them friendly like. He cal... ...led in Kafiristan, where you was late Commander- in-Chief of the Emperor’s forces. Say you forgive me, Peachey.’ ‘I do,’ says Peachey. ‘Fully and free...

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...t of making the attempt. These were powerful objections; nor did they lose force when they became the subject of anxious reflection, although they did... ...oo, which had plodded forward with the steady endurance of his master, now lifted his head, expanded his nostrils, and quickened his pace, as if he sn... ... light buckler betwixt the mace and his head; but the violence of the blow forced the buckler down on his turban, and though that defence also contrib... ... cautiously out of reach of that weapon of which he had so lately felt the force, while he showed his purpose of waging a distant warfare with missile... ...y the interval of repose. That of the Saracen, however, though he had been forced into much the more violent and extended sphere of motion, appeared t... ...possesses,” he at length said; “woe is me, that my eyes are unworthy to be lifted towards it! Alas! I am but the vile and despised sign, which points ... ...ar; “he were blind that had not seen this in their last deliberations. But lift yet thy mask an inch higher, and tell me thy real reason for pressing ... ...r trials; just as, in ascending a precipice, the surmounting one crag only lifts the climber to points yet more dangerous. It was midnight, and the mo... ...gh birth. But, Rich- ard, I tell thee that Providence hath preserved me to lift me on high as a light and beacon, whose ashes, when this earthly fuel ...

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...y of her admirers. Her wit is at once, like steam in an engine, the motive force and the warning whistle of her headlong course; and it vanishes like ... ..., when its truths appear humiliating: when the facts are not immedi- ately forced on them, they take up the pride of incredulity. They live in a hazy ... ... sense; not the less perfectly sound on account of the sparkle: and Comedy lifts women to a station offering them free play for their wit, as they usu... ...manners. Where Congreve excels all his English rivals is in his liter- ary force, and a succinctness of style peculiar to him. He had correct judgemen... ... Menander; and if some of his rivals here and there surpassed him in comic force, and out-stripped him in competition by an appositeness to the occasi... ...as that which furnished the idea of the Menteur to Corneille. But you must force yourself to believe that this liar is not forcing his vein when he pi... ... build up a conception of his pow- ers if we mount Rabelais upon Hudibras, lift him with the songfulness of Shelley, give him a vein of Heinrich Heine... ...as once a big round satyr’s laugh, that flung up the brows like a fortress lifted by gunpowder. The laugh will come again, but it will be of the order...

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...on. The aris- tocracy has to be rehabilitated in the face of a very strong force of the third estate. The King’s idea—and France does him scant justic... ...he collectorship at Sancerre is vacant; a certain paymaster-general of the forces has a claim on it, but he has no chance of getting it; you have the ... ...plishment that had won him the high position of Pay- master-General of the forces. Having mixed himself up in certain important matters in Spain with ... ...es not share the love of the King of the French for the happy me- dium: it lifts you to the skies or drags you in the mud. By this time the good Abbe,... ...ng her that the man could hate; but women are not ready to believe in such force in weak natures, and hatred is too constantly in action not to be a v... ..., like a dog that is thrashed, but the cloth smothered my voice, and I was lifted into a chaise with dexterous rapidity. When my two companions releas... ...en, in the open air, I confess that I breathed as if a heavy load had been lifted from my breast. I followed my guide at a respectful distance, watch-... ...at are played out behind the curtain of private life that the public never lifts?—It seems to me that human jus- tice is ill adapted to judge of crime... ...s the Duchess’ bedroom. At night an ingenious counterpoise acting as a lift raised me through the floor, and I saw the Duchess in her lover’s ...

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...of such a nature that in several aspects he could docu- ment it. Its logic forced him to introspection and to the making of a record. An idea that can... ... con- troversialist. “Good Lord! I’ d like to see him,” said Benham with a forced loudness that could scarcely be ignored. The subsequent controversy ... ... and dwell upon the immense liberations that lie beyond for those who will force themselves through its remonstrances… . Benham confessed his liabilit... ...er him. It beat him down with two swift blows of its fore hoofs, one, two, lifted him up in its long yellow teeth and worried him as a terrier does a ... ...’s skin is infinitely more sensitive than anything inside… . Once you have forced yourself or have been forced through the outward fear into vivid act... ...d. Now! For a moment it seemed to him as though his feet were too heavy to lift and then, hands in pockets, khaki-clad, an al- most invisible figure, ... ...ilver, and then it plunged into obscu- 31 H G Wells rities. For a time it lifted, and then on one hand the bush fell away, and he saw across a vast m... ... the frozen quiet of his mind. He spoke hoarsely. “I am Man,” he said, and lifted a hand as he spoke. “The Thought of the world.” His heart leapt with... ...one something to take hold of.” She sat up stiffly on the garden-seat. She lifted her finger at him, very seriously. “I hope,” she said with all her h...

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...ession of everything— the pearly white fog. Once or twice when it tried to lift, we saw a glimpse of the oily sea, the flitting vision of a junk’s sai... ...ed as good as goold. Orth’ris allus hed as mich conceit on himsen as would lift a balloon, an’ he wor so pleeased wi’ his sham Rip he wor for tekking ... ...de av his work, axed us to let him coom along wi’ us, an’ he couldn’t help liftin’ t’ lid an’ showin’ t’ cur as he lay coiled oop. ‘Oh!’ says t’ awd l... ...ngtungpen nakid.” ‘“Faith,” thinks I, “that’s Honour an’ Glory”; for ’twas Lift’nint Brazenose did that job. “I’m wid ye, Sorr,” sez I, “if I’m av use... ...nt you down wid the draf ’. Savin’ your presince, Sorr,” I sez, “’tis only Lift’nint Hackerston in the Ould Rig’mint can manage a Home draf ’.” ‘“I’ve... ...ingers at the harmonium were held down by the awnings, and came to us with force. ‘Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril ... ...ladies in. One of ‘em was the Captain’s wife. She had to be put in by main force. You’ve no notion how women can struggle. The other woman was the wif... ...r sent you—isolation that weighs upon the waking eyelids and drives you by force headlong into the labours of the day. There is no post, there is no o... ... were black upon the left side of the bridge, but the smaller of them were forced through the lattice-work and whirled down-stream. Thereafter the sta...

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...ispleased at being taken to Mayenne where military discipline was about to force upon them the uniformity of thought, cloth- ing, and gait which they ... ... Vendee, was attempting on the morning when this history begins, to make a forced march on Mayenne, where he was resolved to execute the law according... ... morning. As the soldiers turned to look back, an invisible hand seemed to lift from the landscape the last of these veils—a delicate vapor, like a di... ...rincipal weapon of the Gauls; “gaisde” meant armed; “gais” courage; “gas,” force. The word has an analogy with the Latin word “vir” man, the root of “... ... ous and fugitive expressions that a painter who has to de- scribe them is forced to appeal to the recollections of soldiers and to leave civilians to... ...vered only a small part of it; then he touched a spring; the iron back was lifted, and when their enemies returned to the kitchen the heavy door of th... ... ground would disappear before her if she made another step. A cool breeze lifting her hair, the murmur of the river, and her in- stinct all combined ... ... of the Alps. Then the vaporous atmosphere rolled like the waves of ocean, lifted impenetrable billows which softly swayed, undulated, and were violen... ...crease imperceptibly his impromptu passion. She was like a fisher- man who lifts his line from time to time to see if the fish is biting. The poor cou...

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...o secure theirs. Y.M. Do you really believe that mere public opinion could force a timid and peaceful man to— O.M. Go to war? Yes—public opinion can f... ...hing. Y.M. Anything? O.M. Yes—anything. Y.M. I don’t believe that. Can it force a right principled man to do a wrong thing? O.M. Yes. Y.M. Can it for... ...matter what it is, to secure his spiritual comfort ; and he can neither be forced nor persuaded to any act which has not that goal for its object. Ham... ...rsonal contentment and approval —a man always does. Public opinion cannot force that kind of men to go to the wars. When they go it is for other reas... ... the perfect engine. Watt noticed that confined steam was strong enough to lift the lid of the teapot. He didn’t create the idea, he merely discovered... ...when she stretches herself out, purring with affection and contentment and lifts up a soft voice and says, “Come, kit ties, supper’s ready”; we under... ...all, and a lofty one. They haven’t got the Moral Sense; we have it, and it lifts us immeasurably above them. O.M. What makes you think that? Y.M. Now ... ...k the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. As they lifted the casket, Paine began playing on the orchestrelle Schubert’s “Impr... ...are glad and grateful when they find that they have done a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused wondering talk. This c...

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...ly sufficient to buy the pens, ink, paper, knives, and rules which we were forced to supply ourselves. Unable to buy stilts or skipping-ropes, or any ... ...d to unhappiness apprehend instinctively. 12 The Lily of the Valley I was forced to own a debt of a hundred francs to the Sieur Doisy, who threatened... ...pied by the sudden demands of their regular cus- tomers, and my mother was forced to employ her usual seam- stress, who—according to provincial custom... ... the first employment of freedom, even though it be expended upon nothing, lifts the soul with irrepressible buoy- ancy. Several reasons combined to m... ...rest there. Monsieur de Chessel told the truth; but the accident seemed so forced that Madame de Mortsauf distrusted us. She gave me a cold, severe gl... ...itary cry of the sedge-warbler. Ideas glided like fairies through my mind, lifting the black veil which had hidden till then the glorious future. Soul... ... of the universe, communicate to each other light and motion. This thought lifted me to ethereal regions. I entered once more the heaven of my former ... ... where among the warm and cavernous mosses adders glide to their lairs, or lift their proud slim heads. Cast upon all these pictures tor- rents of sun... ...ral strength, and likewise all outbursts of excitement. The mere action of lift- ing my arm regularly as I drew the stitches rocked my thoughts and ga...

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...with goodnesse did abound: All loued vertue, no man was affrayd Of force, ne fraud in wight was to be found: No warre was knowne, no dr... ... Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand, When so he list in wrath lift vp his steely brand. Which steely brand, to make him dreaded mo... ... Whilest he reformed that vnciuill fo: And streight at him with all his force did go. Who mou’d no more therewith, then when a rocke Is... ...ad before his breast. Vntill that Talus had his pride represt, And forced him, maulgre, it vp to reare. Who when he saw it bootelesse t... ...With cruell chaufe their courages they whet, The maysterdome of each by force to gaine, And dreadfull battaile twixt them do darraine: ... ...ch Knight, that vse of perill has, In swimming be expert through waters force to pas. Then very doubtfull was the warres euent, Vncerta... ..., That they were borne to base humilitie, Vnlesse the heauens them lift to lawfull soueraintie. Thus there long while continu’d Artegal... ...ding her fantasie, Vntill she spide the lampe of lightsome day, Vp lifted in the porch of heauen hie. Then vp she rose fraught with mel... ...a counterstroke so swift, That quite smit off his arme, as he it vp did lift. Therewith, all fraught with fury and disdaine, He brayd a...

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... raven, and the raven eyed me. Nothing was said during some seconds. Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observ... ...sponsible being, and reproved for it. However, I made no reply; I would not bandy words with a raven. The adversary waited a while, with his shoulders... ...e colored caps; there were white caps, green caps, blue caps, red caps, and bright-yellow ones; Mark Twain 20 so, all the five corps were present in ... ...e in the air; the rattling din of these blows as they struck steel or paddings was some- thing wonderfully stirring, and they were struck with such te... ...which is the German equivalent for chicken-hearted. CHAPTER VII How Bismark Fought IN ADDITION TO THE CORPS LAWS, there are some corps usages which ha... ...surpassed by statues. Then he said, in his deep bass tones: “Behold, I am calm, I am ready; reveal to me the distance.” “Thirty-five yards.” ... I cou... ... hammer; as the striking ceases, a life- sized figure of Time raises its hour-glass and turns it; two golden rams advance and butt each other; a gilde... ... lost, and had no sort of idea where I was. When I realized this, I was so angry that I had to sit down on the floor and take hold of something to kee... ...d upon his back. Everybody turned up their noses at him, and some openly jeered him. But he was calm. He simply inquired if the emperor’s offer was st...

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...esting on the hand; and he meditates, half-wearily, doggedly, the eyebrows lifted in strange abstraction, the el- bow resting on the knee. Detached, h... ...ommiseration. Others again are beauti- ful as elegies. It is dead Hyacinth lifted and extended to view, in all his beautiful, dead youth. The young, m... ...ence of the symbol, making no salute. Further down, every mountain peasant lifted his hat. But the guide tramps by without concern. His is a professio... ...ch we were given at the end of the last century, the worship of mechanized force. Still we continue to worship that which is not-me, the Self- less wo... ...le thing to see ma- chines hauled about by tigers, at the mercy of tigers, forced to express the tiger. It is a still more horrible thing to see tiger... ...if he should fall. Yet he was strangely abso- lute, with a strange, intact force in his breeding. They had merely adjusted the strong spring to the sh... ...nd the baby, in the sunshine, laughed a moment. Then I heard the neighing, forced laugh of the old man. He would not be left out. He seemed to force h... ...r—the lemon, it is all the year, all the year. But the vine—one crop—?’ He lifts his shoulders and spreads his hands with that ges- ture of finality a... ...e the mineral coal and the machines, vous savez. Here we have the sun—’ He lifted his withered hand to the sky, to the wonderful source of that blue d...

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...o telleth a tale of unspeaking death? _25 Who lifteth the veil of what is to come? Who painteth the shadows that are bene... ... thou and France are in the dust, That Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth... ...ct: The statues gave a joyous scream, And on its wings the pale thin Dream Lifted the Lady from the stream. _140 2... ...terwards we lost at Rome, written under the idea that we might suddenly be forced to cross the sea, so to preserve him. This poem, as well as the one ... ... _230 Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow, Or worse; but ’tis a bitter woe That love ... ... “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. Our text is that of the “Poetical Works”, 1839. Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life: though unreal sha... ... _5 Their shadows, o’er the chasm, sightless and drear. I knew one who had lifted it—he sought, For his lost heart was tender, things to love But foun... ... _10 That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil? 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,... ...Famine and Toil, giving sigh for sigh. And ye who attend her imperial car, Lift not your hands in the banded war, _20 Bu...

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...nt, we shall continue to live at intellectual cross purposes and waste the forces of our species needlessly and abundantly. This persuasion is a very ... ...the fundamental nature of oneself and one’s mind and its processes, one is forced into autobiography. I begin by asking how the conscious mind with wh... ...of mental activity—regrettable conditions rather than essential facts. The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps and crush the truth a little in tak... ...nd solid is in that world a freely moving system of interlacing centres of force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this length of v... ... synthesis, if you go down for example from matter to atoms and centres of force and up to men and states and countries—if you will imagine the ideas ... ... these are prosti- tutes of mind and soul if not of body, with no right to lift an eyebrow at the painted disasters of the streets. 3.8. SOCIAL P 3.8....

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... must have your father’s land. ROBERT: Shall then my father’s will be of no force To dispossess that child which is not his? BASTARD: Of no more for... ...pose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight, Nor keep his princely he... ...s not. [Exeunt.] ACT II SCENE I: France. Before Angiers. [Enter AUSTRIA and forces, drums, etc. on one side: on the other KING PHILIP and his power;... ...e a more requital to your love! AUSTRIA: The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords In such a just and charitable war. KING PHILIP : Well ... ...lord; We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak. CHATILLON: Then turn your forces from this paltry siege And stir them up against a mightier task. E... ...nd his legions all as soon as I; His marches are expedient to this town, His forces strong, his soldiers confident. With him along is come the mother ... ...had I seen the vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o’er with burning meteors. Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury, And with a great heart heave away t...

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... did earne To proue his puissance in battell braue Vpon his foe, and his new force to learne; Vpon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne. 4 THE FIRST... ...e, Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster... ...g pray, And with his trenchand blade her boldly kept From turning backe, and forced her to stay: Therewith enrag’d she loudly gan to bray, And turning... ...elfe she gathered round, And all attonce her beastly body raizd With doubled forces high aboue the ground: Tho wrapping vp her wrethed sterne arownd, ... ... threatned vnto him the dreaded name Of Hecate: whereat he gan to quake, And lifting vp his lompish head, with blame Halfe angry asked him, for what h... ...Her eylids blew And dimmed sight with pale and deadly hew At last she vp gan lift: with trembling cheare Her vp he tooke, too simple and too trew, And... ...all ouer them displaid, That purest skye with brightnesse they dismaid: High lifted vp were many loftie towres, And goodly galleries farre ouer laid, ... ... buckled him to fight, Inflam’d with scornefull wrath and high disdaine, And lifting vp his dreadfull club on hight, All arm’d with ragged snubbes and... ... running messenger had beene. At last resolu’d to worke his finall smart, He lifted vp his hand, that backe againe did start. THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE F...

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