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...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi... ...f the windows and balconies were hung with colored drapery; and there were flags, trum- pets, nosegays and flirtations of all shapes and sizes. The be...

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...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...he sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low ... ...verley , the two Highlanders drew the boat into a little creek among thick flags and reeds, where it lay perfectly concealed. The oars they put in ano... ...erty; and the ideas and wishes which she chiefly fostered, respected great national events, and changes not to be brought round without both hazard an... ...ral league with their old enemies, the Jacobites, to oppose that important national measure. Since that time their num- bers have gradually diminished...

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...which evi- dently, from the ease and grace with which she wore it, was her national attire. Behind her, but in deep shadow, was the outline of a mascu... ... to give you credit for having hit upon a most capital idea.” “And quite a national one, too,” replied Albert with gratified pride. “A mere masque bor... ...ide; chairs were placed, scaffolds were raised, and windows were hung with flags. The masks could not appear; the carriages could not move about; but ... ...ty palaces, with their balconies hung with carpets, and their windows with flags. At these balconies are three hundred thousand spectators — Romans, I... ...s for Franz, he was enchanted at the way in which Albert had sustained the national honor in the presence of the bandit. “My dear Albert,” he said, “i... ...per, and the terror of the French government, but of whom, in spite of his national celebrity, you perhaps have not heard in Italy, since his paper is... ...e, the worthy Abbe Adelmonte of Taormina, in Sicily, who has studied these national phenomena very profoundly.” “It is quite frightful, but deeply int...

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... of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity. Also, to declare how astounded I have ... ...u were not prepared, sir ,’ said the gentle- man, ‘to behold such signs of National Prosperity as those?’ He pointed to the vessels lying at the wharv... ...abours to the prevailing taste, and of his being strictly and peculiarly a national feature of America. They walked a mile or more along a handsome st... ...bent in the midst of a fortification of luggage, apparently performing his national anthem for the gratification of a grey-haired black man, who sat o... ...nd possessed of all the birds he had got together. That many undertakings, national as well as individual—but especially the former—are held to be spe... ... him unconscious, for a moment, of the lightest sound. Any footstep on the flags without set him listening attentively and when it turned into that ho... ...gh it; that it passed like a smile from the grimy old houses, and the worn flagstones, and left them duller, darker, sterner than before; there is no ... ...ecious, blessed little foot into the cracked corner of an in- sensible old flagstone in the pavement; and be so very anxious to adjust it to a nicety!...

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...e temper and movements of man were lively and playful. Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on... ...n bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer. The arrival of flags to cover the messengers of sum- mons, had occurred so often of late, ... ...rerogatory task of entering into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the ve...

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...nch mind, and the French habit of quick social intercourse, have made them nationally far richer in language. Let me add, individually as much poorer.... ...nd summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. “Can’t they be stopped?” Emilia murmured, clenching her li... ... a fertile tear! Anticipating that it will eventually be hung up among our national symbols, I proceed. The drum of Hillford entered the Brookfield gr... ...al expression was much like that seen when the popular ear is given to the national anthem. Wilfrid hung at the opening of the booth, a cynical specta... ...ish!” she whispered, smiling, with a sort of astonished discernment of the nationality, and swept through the door- way: thus conveying forcibly to Ar... ...hile its out-pushing brushwood below drooped under burdens of drowned reed-flags that caught the foam. Keen scent of hay, crossing the dark air, met E... ...sten to Sir T . on Parliament and parties, and chide myself if my interest flags. His algebra-puzzles, or Euclid- puzzles in figures—sometimes about s...

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...p the mirror to Russian officialdom and the effects it has produced on the national character. The plot of Dead Souls is simple enough, and is said to... ...nstitution, or look for a position in a bank, but he is an immortal inter- national type; we meet him everywhere; he is of all lands and of all times;... ...and of all times; he but takes different forms to suit the requirements of nationality and time.” Again, the work bears an interesting relation to Gog... ... around him have also been selected for the pur- pose of demonstrating our national weaknesses and short- comings. As for men and women of the better ... ... they will rebound from his brain as an india- rubber ball rebounds from a flagstone. Nevertheless, wip- ing away the perspiration, Chichikov resolved... ...own reason, firstly, Bagration*—tall and thin, and with a cluster of small flags and cannon beneath him, and the whole set in the narrowest of frames—...

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... Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His tit... ...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ...ularity, Reserve it) will be very sure to take. Meantime, read all the national debt sinkers, And tell me what you think of your great thinker...

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...head of such forces as might 4 Ivanhoe enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the i... ...parate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great national distinctions betwixt them and their conquerors, the recollection o... ...nk, surrounded a throne deco- rated in the same colours. Among pennons and flags bearing wounded hearts, burning hearts, bleeding hearts, bows and qui... ...elves from the yoke of the Normans, or at least to elevate themselves into national consequence and independence, during the civil con- vulsions which... ... him as a guard. These men were Saxons, and not free by any means from the national love of ease and good living which the Normans stigmatized as lazi... ...nt worshippers of Woden, recalled to life to mourn over the decay of their national glory. Cedric, seated in equal rank among his countrymen, seemed y...

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...and who will put up with my caprices as my father does; his kindness never flags. I am sure no one will ever be as indulgent to me as my precious moth... ...a chance to show the fleetness of his horses and dogs in the open. The two national systems were thus face to face and allowed to do their best under ...

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... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...sation, Don Quixote, raising his head, perceived a cart covered with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that this m... ...erceive nothing, except a cart coming towards them with two or three small flags, which led him to conclude it must be carrying treasure of the King’s... ... conclusions with Satan himself in person!” By this time the cart with the flags had come up, unattended by anyone except the carter on a mule, and a ... ... are you going, brothers? What cart is this? What have you got in it? What flags are those?” To this the carter replied, “The cart is mine; what is in... ... governor of Oran is sending to court as a present to his Majesty; and the flags are our lord the King’s, to show that what is here is his property.” ...

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...ay, he held in such esteem, we may say in such friend- ship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house. Pittrino, grateful, and fed with ... ...r’s strug- gling with the waves, it reached the spot where the admiral’s vessel was anchored, and from the side of which two boats had already been di... ...e directions given with such an ex- hibition of delight that a stranger would really imagine the young man’s reason was affected. As the Duke of Norfo... ... numbers of the inhabitants of Havre, having embarked in fishing-cobles and boats of every description, set off to meet the royal barge. The cannon fr... ...in the square. “Excellent,” said De Guiche; “our apartments, I see, are prepared.” In fact, in front of the Hotel de Ville, upon the wide open space b... ...er, tempered by a gentle breeze from the east. Upon the large square in front of the hotel, the shadows of the tents, inter- sected by the golden moon... ... upon the duke’s superiority. Others, less brilliant, but more sensible, had reminded him of the king’s orders prohibiting dueling. Oth- ers, again, a...

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...the Duomo, of having longed for our muddy streets on the clean and elegant flagstones of Porta-Renza. When I have some book to publish which may be de... ...ne forms, when grief had furrowed that network of delicate veins. Esther’s nationality proclaimed it- self in this Oriental modeling of her eyes with ... ...in Paris such vehement promenaders, real gendarmes watching a recalcitrant National Guardsman, bailiffs taking steps to effect an arrest, creditors pl... ...6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life those Parisians who are born to be of any nationality they please. But I do not advise that you should give yourself ... ...and skill, finesse and mental power, as a practised diplomatist expends on national affairs. If he were equally remarkable outside his office, the ban... ...a fellow prisoner to watch and attend on him. The room is paved with thick flags, and the light is so dim that it is hard to see anything. 407 Balzac... ...ter! Why, the hussy stole it!” cried Bibi-Lupin, stamping with rage on the flags of the gateway. The words produced a great sensation among the specta...

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...itted that in men killed and wounded, in general officers and privates, in flags and standards, they had lost more than we. The battle cost them, in f... ...lled or taken, their ammunition, artillery, baggage, and a great number of flags and standards. When we consider the extreme peril the Crown of Spain ... ...e was only one remedy by which improvement could be effected; and this was National Bank- ruptcy. Had I occupied the office, I should have been too st... ...inuance of imposts, who of two evils, viz., vastly increased taxation, and national failure, would not prefer the latter. We were in the condition of ... ...y, business, no mat- ter of, what importance, no matter whether private or national, was entirely banished from view. Until the next morning ev- erybo... ... clad, officers and, soldiers, like the Swiss guards, were under arms; the flags waved, the drums beat, and the officers sa- luted with the half-pike....

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...Yo n g e tal circumstances can confine it, it recognises no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all th... ...native habits, nor talk of learning, for which the giants saw no need. The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, the costume a tat- tooed ... ...ails. T o begin with, a man must know, and that well, Maori customs, their national feeling, &c. It is all known to One above, and that is our only ho... ...t prejudice and without an in- discriminating admiration for all their own national tastes and modes of thought—a few such men, agreeing well to- geth... ...and nineteenth century civilisation. ‘It is sometimes a consequence of our national self-con- ceit, sometimes of want of thought, that no consideratio... ...n for what they had done. There was no interpreter. They knew noth- ing of flags of truce; and when they saw a boat approaching, full of white men, ar...

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...the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.... ...avels with Mina. In the population of Transylvania there are four dis tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, wh... ...I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the Chapter 1 9 crowd, so I quietly got my polyglot dic... ... that great shame of my nation, the shame of Chapter 3 37 Cassova, when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent? Who w... ...since they would seem to limit him to one of a class. You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by heredity, or by the possession of natural gifts, are fitt...

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...m- mars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old gramm... ...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap...

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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... ...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 ... ...o had so long been Scotland’s scourge. Edward’s grave is the cradle of our national free- dom. It is within sight of that great landmark of our libert... ...ing assemblage of cottages attached to a house of two stories, roofed with flags of sandstone—the original mansion, to which the extensions of Mr. Cra...

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...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...of man) is a choice collection of copper plate impressions from that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty... ...head, and my footsteps from being noiseless made an echoing sound upon the flags. Stopping to look at nothing, but seeing all I did see as I went, I w... ...and even in his cultivated whiskers. 557 Bleak House – Dickens CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some we... ...g Doodle, now in frocks and long stockings, were grown up. This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle’s making the timely ...

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... 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... ...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... ...ation is apt to prompt young soldiers had added private animosity to their national feelings of opposition. Yet for all this, con- sidering Tullus to ... ...rators and philosophers, in their harangues and panegyrics at their solemn national assemblies, used to exhort and in- 432 V olume One cite the Greek... ...ers, not less than three thousand; with the glittering of their armor, the flags waving from the galleys, the multitude of coxswains and flute-play- e...