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...loger, who was also baffled in the same manner. At one period he found the native, or subject, was certainly alive; at another, that he was unquestion... ...each other by winding passages through the moss, impassable by any but the natives them- selves. The public road, however, was tolerably well made and... ...e twelfth house, threatened captivity, or sudden and violent death, to the native; and Mannering having re- course to those further rules by which div... ...same year threatened her with the same misfortune that was presaged to the native or infant, whom that night had introduced into the world. Struck wit... ...sidered as the principal lu- minary. Still greater scope was given to evil tongues by the removal of a colony of gipsies, with one of whom our reader ... ...he white man’s cottage rise beneath the trees He leaves the shelter of his native wood, He leaves the murmur of Ohio’s flood, And forward rushing in i... ... is the bounti- ful reward of a young gentleman, to whom I am teaching the tongues; reading with him three hours daily—” A few more questions extracte... ...an, to breathe a complaint of hard luck or want of prefer- ment, a hundred tongues would blame his own incapacity as the cause. But the most stupid ve... ...c char- acter of their language; while our modern labours, like our modern tongues, seem but constructed out of their fragments.” Having thus moralise...

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...inflamed to tread further upon this happy and holy ground. We added that our tongues should first cleave to the roofs of our mouths ere we should forg... ...ht a great miracle, conform to that of the apostles, in the original gift of tongues. For there being at that time, in this land, Hebrews, Per sians,... ...ng at that time, in this land, Hebrews, Per sians, and Indians, besides the natives, everyone read upon the book and letter, as if they had been writ...

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...ng back the queen up stairs, who was fast getting well, and said, ‘Hold your tongues, you wicked little monkeys, every one of you, while I examine bab... ..., a piece of pork, a bag of biscuit, and my Latin grammar. Go! and spite the natives, if you can find any.’ Deeply conscious of this bitter sarcasm, t... ... his part) the king’s daughter. Here he rested some time, receiving from the natives great quantities of precious stones, gold dust, elephants’ teeth,...

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... zeal: ’Tis not the trial of a woman’s war, The bitter clamor of two eager tongues, Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain; The blood is hot that m... ...at your highness’ hands. The language I have learn’d these forty years, My native English, now I must forego: And now my tongue’s use is to me no more... ...hy sentence then but speechless death, Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath? Richard II, Act I, scene iii 15 KING RICHARD II : It boots... ...all in vain comes counsel to his ear. JOHN OF GAUNT : O, but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are s... ...admonition Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood With fury from his native residence. Now, by my seat’s right royal majesty, Wert thou not brot... ...now what pricks you on To take advantage of the absent time And fright our native peace with self born arms. [Enter DUKE OF YORK attended .] HENRY BOL... ... earth shall have a feeling and these stones Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion’s arms. BISHOP OF CARLISLE : ... ... seem’d to know, With slow but stately pace kept on his course, Whilst all tongues cried ‘God save thee, Bolingbroke!’ You would have thought the very...

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...frica, with a view to the general cultivation of the coffee berry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of ou... ...fifty to two hundred healthy families cultivating coffee and educating the natives of Borrioboola Gha, on the left bank of the Niger.” As Ada said no... ...he told us a great deal that was interesting about Borrioboola Gha and the natives, and received so many letters that Richard, who sat by her, saw fou... ...from people excited in various ways about the culti vation of coffee, and natives; others required answers, and these she sent her eldest daughter fr... ...erested in that settlement. As he never spoke a word, he might have been a native but for his complexion. It was not until we left the table and he re... ...nted to the nose and tem per of the patient. With whichsoever of the many tongues of Rumour this frothy report originated, it either never reached or...

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...ioche explained. “He will speak like an angel!” said his daughter. But the native integrity which had been vainly exerted to secure M. Nioche’s commer... ...l circumstances, of the soci- ety of women, and now that he was out of his native element and deprived of his habitual interests, he turned to it for ... ...l, snobbish. He irritated our friend by the tone of his allusions to their native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United State... ..., I am not even educated; I know nothing about history, or art, or foreign tongues, or any other learned matters. But I am not a fool, either, and I s... ...patches of French, with words anglicized by a process of his own, and with native idioms literally translated. The result, in the form in which he in ... ...ortune-seek- ers. He had notions, wherever he went, about talking with the natives; he had been assured, and his judgment ap- 47 Henry James proved t... ... had been at all cordially given, and he emerged from dialogues in foreign tongues, of which he had, formally, not understood a word, in full possessi...

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...l his genius as a painter of Russian panorama, peopled with characteristic native types commonplace enough but drawn in comic relief. “The comic,” exp... ...o the subject being made 86 Dead Souls by him, and they too holding their tongues. In short, Nozdrev was, as it were, a man of incident. Never was he... ...ving set up a team of three horses and a tilt waggon, left your home, your native hovel, for ever, and departed to cart merchandise to market? Was it ... ... become oblivious to the scene around him. Yet all the while the melodious tongues of ladies were plying him with multitudinous hints and questions—hi... ...n opinion. But see here. There once lived in a remote corner of Russia two natives of the region indicated. One of those natives was a good man named ... ...ned fixed in Tientietnikov’s brain save as shapeless clots; for though his native intellect could not tell him how instruction ought to be imparted, i... ...ere superfluity, he looked upon himself as, to all intents and purposes, a native of Russia, and the more so since the Russian language was the only t... ...e to whom, as a petitioner on behalf of the Church, they may unloose their tongues without peril.” “I feel that the scheme is a splendid one, and woul... ...d. Our fatherland is suffering, not from the incursion of a score of alien tongues, but from our own acts, in that, in addi- tion to the lawful admini...

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...e unhappy instrument of convey- ing such a serious sum of money out of his native country into the hands of the false English. But patriotism as it is... ...h, a mere Englishman, in search of the comfortable, a word peculiar to his native tongue, might have wished the clothes less scanty, the feet and legs... ...g out, ‘Be silent, sir! ye not only show your ignorance, but disgrace your native country before a stranger and an En- glishman;’ and W averley, at th... ...is- ing themselves by the handle. The axe, which was also much used by the natives of Ireland, is supposed to have been intro- duced into both countri... ... Here he saw on the banks of an unknown lake, under the guidance of a wild native, whose language was un- known to him, on a visit to the den of some ... ...many here whose eyes can see as clearly as mine, but the prudence of whose tongues may not be equally trusted.’ So saying, he turned easily away, and ... ...fusion commenced, which seemed likely to terminate in bloodshed. A hundred tongues were in motion at once. The Baron lec- tured, the Chieftain stormed...

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...Staphylus; and among these is the poet Ion of Chios, who writes of his own native city Which once Oenopion, son of Theseus, built. But the more famous... ...ty, he invited all strang- ers to come and enjoy equal privileges with the natives, and it is said that the common form, Come hither all ye people, wa... ...ved at least five generations after him; and that some other Pythagoras, a native of Sparta, 102 V olume One who, in the sixteenth Olympiad, in the t... ...a moderating hand as is able to divert the fury another way, and that your native city and the whole Sabine nation should possess in you a bond of goo... ...o gain his filthy pay, Timocreon, his friend, neglected to restore T o his native Rhodian shore; Three silver talents took, and departed (curses with ... ...s, and reinstated her in her former liberties. Thus they entertained their tongues and thoughts; whilst Titus by his actions made good what had been p... ...ri- ficed oxen, lying apart from the bodies, were seen to thrust out their tongues and lick up their own gore. And in the city of Argos, the priestess...

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... and ac- complished her orders to Fanny—otherwise Mrs. Mount— a Beechcroft native, who, on being left a widow, had returned to her former mistresses, ... ... had been early inhabitants—had named their cottage Beechcroft after their native home, and, to jus- tify the title, had flanked the gate with two cop... ...creed by the cruel authorities that the two bosom friends would have their tongues in better order if they were some chairs apart; and therefore, thou... ...ey home, we mean to have the double wedding before Lent. As to outfit, the native tai- lors must be chiefly trusted to, or the stores at Calcutta, and... ...try. Their aunts would not go with them, as Beechcroft breezes, though her native air, were too cold for Adeline in the winter, and Jane could leave n... ...d it with prizes for each of the four forms for the most proficient in two tongues. As the preparation became more absorbing, brows were puckered and ... ...e Helena when we act Midsummer Night’s Dream on T welfth Night for all the natives, and I am Demetrius, dirty cad that he is! She lives with the Grins... ...f her as she sat, and Gillian, as near as they would allow, while the four tongues went on unceasingly. It was only horrid, Valetta said, that Mysie s... ...ike Heaven. She must have had an odd notion of ‘Spotted snakes with double tongues.’ Moreover, effect was added to the said hymns by Uncle Lance behin...

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...ons and eve- nings I wandered through the strange lights and shadows of my native valley and hated all created things. Until my wan- derings were chec... ...ing Wood, and the thought banished my wish to please her. Like most imagi- native natures I was acutely capable of dreads and retreats, and constantly... ...guous instructions had torn it down. Then one of the con- venient abundant natives of the country, a British subject indisputably, had been shot in th... ...opped and looked back more attentively at that wide ugly valley. It was my native valley, and I was going out of it, I thought never to return, and ye... ...f stuc- coed lodging-houses, that seemed a finer and cleaner version of my native square, I came to a garden of asphalt and eu- onymus—the Sea Front. ... ...had such navies as mankind had never seen before, whose empire of nations, tongues, peoples still dazzles in these greater days, had no common idea wh...

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... By this you shall not know, For still her cheeks possess the same Which native she doth owe. A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of whi... ...uty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter’d by base sale of chapmen’s tongues: I am less proud to hear you tell my worth Than you much willing ... ...omes to hunt here in the park, And in her train there is a gentle lady; When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name, And Rosaline they call he... ...nothing wants that want itself doth seek. Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,— Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not: To things of sal... ...she born to make black fair. Her favor turns the fashion of the days, For native blood is counted painting now; And therefore red, that would avoid... ... softly then; the butcher hears you cry. [They converse apart .] BOYET: The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor’s edge invisibl...

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...ries of rank. Two of the party, indeed, a male and female, belonged to the native owners of the soil, being Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tus... ...own idle conceits. “How now, Magnet! dost suppose that I shouldn’t know my native element if it were in sight?” “But Ontario is not your native elemen... ...inder, neither re- linquishing the hand he held until the girl herself, in native mod- esty, saw fit to withdraw it, “and wonderfully winning! W e get... ...at vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues in the eloquent language of night in a wilderness. The air sighed t... ...ible situation of the oldest sergeant. A few young officers also, who were natives of the colonies, were to be found in the corps. The fort itself, li... ...ish days, when I, the laird’s son, and you, the parson’s, roamed about our native hills, happy and careless boys, taking little heed to the future; an... ...ent army, in the woods, is doubly strong; and a noisy one, doubly weak. If tongues made soldiers, the, women of a camp would generally carry the day.”... ...; who, unused to see their enemies so reckless, opened upon him with their tongues, like a pack that has the fox in view. Still he appeared to possess... ...ence ‘atween an Englishman and a Frenchman, after all. They talk different tongues, and live under different kings, I will allow; but both are human, ...

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...Exeunt in state, as before. Brutus and Sicinius come forward .] BRUTUS: All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him: y... ...ed his honors in their eyes, and his actions in their hearts, that for their tongues to be silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of ingrateful ... ...to do; for if he show us his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our tongues into those wounds and peak for them; so, if he tell us his noble ... ...very one of us has a single honor, in giving him our own voices with our own tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how you shall go by him. A... ...e hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry Against the rectorship of judgment? SICINIUS: ... ...trumpets sound, with great shouts of the People .] First Conspirator : Your native town you enter’d like a post, And had no welcomes home: but he re...

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...sly: ‘There, you are twice marred, to please Ma- dame there; but hold your tongues all of you about this scene in the play.’ Then almost pushing Eusta... .... It was nearly dark, and very muddy, but she had all the familiarity of a native with the way, and the farm, where she had trotted about in her infan... ...th Simonette. Angrily and haughtily did Eustacie always reject this alter- native, and send fresh commands back by her messenger, to meet the same rep... .... Adderley, and come to a decision whether to seek reconciliation with his native Church and his brother, or to remain in England. In this latter case... ... the coast language; and a few incomprehensible shouts between him and the natives resulted in a line being thrown to them, and the boat dragged 224 ... ...on, and his impulse at present bore him into the church belong- ing to his native faith and land, without any defined felling, save that it was peace ... ... master, but when lads and lasses have their heads together over one book, tongues wag.’ The colour rushed hotly into young Mericour’s face, and he an... ...ngation of the sound that lasted till Mericour began again. ‘But, sir, let tongues wag as they will, it is for nought. Your fair daughter was but as e... ...u the truth, Maitre Gardon, this daugh- ter of yours does seem to have set tongues in motion.’ ‘Not by her own fault, Madame.’ ‘Stay, my good friend; ...

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...d at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it! And if, when I sh... ...hich he well knew the jury would have, word for word, at the tips of their tongues; whereat the jury’s countenances displayed a guilty conscious ness... ... undergo a long imprison ment, without trial, or even accusation, in your native coun try, Doctor Manette?” He answered, in a tone that went to ever... ...brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, al... ...he morning, or dressing a doll at her mother’s footstool, chattered in the tongues of the T wo Cities that were blended in her life. The Echoes rarely... ...gneur under his reverses as a refugee, and it was much too much the way of native British orthodoxy, to talk of this terrible Revolution as if it were... ...of Two Cities – Dickens 271 of one of the best and greatest of men in his native country, an official among foreigners, and such foreigners! I would ... ... tempter A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 276 and an eavesdropper among the natives. He knew that un der the overthrown government he had been a spy u...

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...s of Napoleon! In 1814, Madame Marion, half-ruined, returned to Arcis, her native place, where she bought, on the Grande-Place, one of the finest hous... ... whose independence the leaders of the movement counted. Simon Giguet, the native-born candidate of a little town jeal- ously desirous to elect a son ... ...little felicities of life. He concealed under a deluge of commonplaces his native incapacity, his total want of education, and a weakness of character... ... the leaders of the town? This singular ambibology is no doubt a stroke of native wit. Two handsome side avenues, planted with lindens, lead from the ... ...s also kind and tender, and would often weep at a moving tale. It was this native goodness of heart which made him respect his wife, whose superiority... ...towns in a like position, a stranger, if he stayed two days, would wag the tongues and excite the imagi- nations of the whole community without his na... ...tion which has always surrounded her obliged these cavillers to hold their tongues. This courageous obstinacy had its reward, under the government of ... ...ch elevated tastes; they come merely to enjoy the racket, the confusion of tongues which is certain to take place on such occasions. Some see their op...

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...le as easily as a violet. Whereas I am a domestic animal, furnished with a native stock within myself. This large castle (to show my improvements in t... ...n the behalf of you, his brethren, and himself, with many boastings of his native stock and great genius; that he spins and spits wholly from himself,... ...tion, I must, after the example of other au thors, petition for a hundred tongues, and mouths, and hands, and pens, which would all be too little to ... ...sleepers, unarmed and remote from the rest. As when two mongrel curs, whom native greediness and domestic want provoke and join in partnership, though... ...ade the folds of some rich grazier, they, with tails depressed and lolling tongues, creep soft and slow. Meanwhile the conscious moon, now in her ze ... ... mighty con test, be succeeded by a cardinal of the Imperial faction, but native of Tuscany, who is now about sixty one years old. The French army ac... ... but little of their art; Their work was half already done, The child with native beauty shone, The outward form no help required: Each breathing on h... ..., in a weighty case like this, To show she did not judge amiss, Which evil tongues might else report, She made a speech in open court; Wherein she gri... ...true, he hated sloth like pease. The mimic ape began his chatter, How evil tongues his life bespatter: Much of the cens’ring world complained, Who sai...

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...e in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. ’Tis little; but it looks in truth 5 As if the quiet bones w... ...th it; for I long to prove No lapse of moons can canker Love, Whatever fickle tongues may say. And if that eye which watches guilt 5 And goodness, and ... ...s many a purer priest, And many an abler voice than thou. Go down beside thy native rill, 5 On thy Parnassus set thy feet; And hear thy laurel whisper... ...rs and kings, With one that was his earliest mate; Who ploughs with pain his native lea 25 And reaps the labour of his hands, Or in the furrow musing ... ...t see thee. Dare I say No spirit ever brake the band That stays him from the native land, Where first he walk’d when claspt in clay? No visual shade of... ...Long since its matin song, and heard 10 The low love language of the bird In native hazels tassel hung. The other answers, ‘Yea, but here Thy feet hav...

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...ladies’ faces and fierce dragons’ spleens, Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make h... ... our right run on? Whose passage, vex’d with thy impediment, Shall leave his native channel and o’erswell With course disturb’d even thy confining sho... ... gracious creature born. But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek And he will look as hollow as a ghost, As di... ...al cause And call them meteors, prodigies and signs, Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven, Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John. LEWIS: May be... ...omise? go to, hold your tongue. ARTHUR: Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes: Let me not hold my t... ...eart consent, And consequently thy rude hand to act The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name. Out of my sight, and never see me more! My nob...