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...a nightcap! “My dear Priscilla,” said I, smiling, “I never had on a night cap in my life! But perhaps it will be better for me to wear one, now that ... ...with inlets between the promontories; the shadowy woodland, with twinkling showers of light falling into its depths; the sultry heat vapor, which rose... ... the noon tide dew), crumbling in the sunshine after long expectance of a shower. So, with my heart full of a drowsy pleasure, and cautious not to di... ...x tricable knot of polygamy . Once, while sheltering myself from a summer shower, the fancy had taken me to clamber up into this seemingly impervious... ...within which our little party had sometimes found protection from a summer shower. On the threshold, or just across it, grew a tuft of pale columbines... .... The next moment, it was all gone. The twilight fell into the area like a shower of dusky snow, and before it was quite dark, the gong of the hotel s...

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...er, their arms crossed upon their knees, two men, one wearing a silk skull cap all awry, conversed earnestly in low tones. Winston, a great, broad-sho... ...s the Pit. One of the floor officers, an old fellow in uniform and vizored cap, appeared, gently shouldering towards the door the groups wherein the b... ...s, musty, acute—the unforgettable exhalation of the city’s streets after a shower—pervaded all the air, and the little out-door activities resumed aga... ... and chancel. The janitor or sexton, a severe old fellow, who wore a skull cap and loose slippers, was making a great to-do with a pile of pew cush- i... ...ilver of the breakfast table; the trim, fresh-looking maid, with her white cap, apron, and cuffs, who came and went; the thoroughbred setter doz- ing ... ...essed. He wore a suit of tweeds of a foreign cut, but no overcoat, a cloth cap of greenish plaid was upon his head, his hands were gloved in dogskin, ...

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...lisp of children, and their earliest words. Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, Purple and g... ...ur’d upon him for the last half hour, Quick, thick, and heavy—as a thunder shower. At first he tried to hammer an excuse, To which the sole re... ... We ‘ll see, however, what they say to this: Their favour in an author’s cap ‘s a feather, And no great mischief ‘s done by their caprice; A... ...Dante. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Two” 57 And the same night there fell a shower of rain, For which their mouths gaped, like the cracks of eart... ...oam From his pale lips, and ever on him gazed, And when the wish’d for shower at length was come, And the boy’s eyes, which the dull film half... ...Prompts deeds eternity can not annul, But pays off moments in an endless shower Of hell fire—all prepared for people giving Pleasure or pain t... ...w gorge, And walls as thick as most skulls born as yet; Two batteries, cap a pie, as our St. George, Case mated one, and t’ other ‘a barbett... ...s wounded in the knee; Count Chapeau Bras, too, had a ball between His cap and head, which proves the head to be Aristocratic as was ever se... ...tic as was ever seen, Because it then received no injury More than the cap; in fact, the ball could mean No harm unto a right legitimate head:...

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... beau- teous forms—the heart-shaped shepherd’s purse, the mask- like skull-cap, and the crowned urn of the henbane. The 10 The Dove in the Eagle’s Ne... ...e crowned urn of the henbane. The 10 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest starred cap of the poppy was actually being shaped under the tool, copied from a gr... ...tly form, open visage, and good-natured stateliness, as well as his furred cap and gold chain, were thoroughly those of the German burgomaster of the ... ...rnaments of tarnished silver, and an eagle’s plume was fas- tened into his cap with a large gold Italian coin. He stared hard at the maiden, but vouch... ...ommand that had so startled Christina as she entered—and her huge towering cap made her look gigantic in the dim light of the smoky hall. Her features... ...with it; and indeed it was on the very day that a succes- sion of drifting showers had left the sheet alone, and sepa- rated it from the masses of whi... ..., every well- aimed hit, as the hardy little fellows scattered the snow in showers round them, raising their merry fur-capped faces to the bright eyes...

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...en banquet; but we’ll mend it. A good digestion to you all: and once more I shower a welcome on ye; welcome all. [Hautboys. Enter KING HENRY VIII and... ...es when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play,... ... What say you? CARDINAL WOLSEY : My sovereign, I confess your royal graces, Shower’d on me daily, have been more than could My studied purposes requi... ...f scarlet, Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward, And dare us with his cap like larks. CARDINAL WOLSEY : All goodness Is ... ...till: when suddenly a file of boys behind ‘em, loose shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honor in, and let ‘em wi...

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...the wood with startling sound: Then all at once the air was still, And showers of hail-stones patter’d round. Where leafless Oaks tower’d high a... ...uch,—for there is a Spirit in the woods. Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; ... ...attempting to prevent the waste, Was baffled still, the crumbs in little showers Fell on the ground, and the small mountain birds, Not venturing...

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...e house might go. We went to bed with mighty uncertain feelings; far more than on shipboard, where you have only drowning ahead—whereas here you have ... ...s out of the battle. All night it ran in my head, and the next day when we sighted Tutuila, and ran into this beauti- ful land-locked loch of Pago Pag... ...hty little of it will stand. 48 Robert Louis Stevenson Our Paul has come into a fortune, and wishes to go home to the Hie Germanie. This is a tile on... ... could be so timed as to arrive when a fellow wasn’t 49 V ailima Letters working at the truck in question; but, of course, that can’t be. Did not go ... ...as descend- ing was a vast cloud. The front of it accurately represented the somewhat rugged, long-nosed, and beetle-browed pro- file of a man, crowne... ...found; in one my mother and I were embarked with the two biscuit tins (my present to the feast), and the bag with our dry clothes, on which my mother ... ... residence. I have not joined them because ‘belly belong me’ has been kicking up, and I have just taken 15 drops of laudanum. On Tuesday, the party se... ...bush; missed it; came forth in a great oblong patch of taro solemnly surrounded by forest—no soul, no sign, no sound—and as I stood there at a loss, s... ...yellow and white, often as deep as to my waist, in which I floundered aimlessly. The very moun- tain was invisible from here. The rain came and went; ...

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...eased from the grasp of the bowman, sprung back with a swish, scattering a shower of muddy water over Almayer, as he bent forward, trying to see. In a... ...nned at Almayer, as it swung to one of the bamboo roof sticks and caused a shower of dust and bits of dried leaves to settle on the shabby table. The ... ...heir dark fingers, and showing their brilliant teeth in expecta- tion of a shower of glass beads. She greeted them with a quiet smile, but always had ... ...ti- fully by Reshid. The torch-bearers shook their torches, scat- tering a shower of sparks into the river, and the cortege moved off, leaving Almayer... ...n the broad day, flamed immense red blossoms sending down on their heads a shower of great dew-sparkling petals that descended rotating slowly in a co... ...t they could touch him with their hands and stretch them out to make him a cap- tive. That would be the time: with a shout and a leap he would be in t...

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...ready he had staked Madame Rabourdin very much as Corporal Trim staked his cap. “Don’t say that too often, my dear friend, or you will in- jure her,” ... ...nother obso- lete name for a short gown or jacket. She continued to wear a cap with starched wings, and shoes with high heels. Though she was now fift... ...ed with much pomp and an accompaniment of flowers,—silk stockings or a fur cap for old Saillard; gold earrings and articles of plate for Elisabeth or ... ... opinion of the guests asked about them. The day Saillard received his fur cap he wore it during the dessert, to the satisfaction of all present. At n... ...s, and allow for the time he may lose in standing un- der shelter during a shower, are the preoccupations of his mind. The street pavements, the flagg... ...he summing up (con- tained in one page), with the estimates bracketed, the cap- tions in a running hand, and the sub-titles in a round one. Full of en... ...e never knew how the phenomenon was produced. The clerks told him tales of showers of frogs, and other dog-day wonders, also the star- tling fact that...

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... one brown and tattooed across the face with bands of blue, both in immaculate white European clothes: the resident trader, Mr. Regler, and the native... ...ne to sea in his youth in the American whalers; a circumstance to which he owed his name, his English, his down-east twang, and the misfortune of his ... ...filling his lungs and cheeks with smoke. Their faces were all puffed out like apples as we came abreast of the cliff foot, and the bursting surge fell... ...ellent man. He sailed with us from Tai-o-hae to Hiva-oa, a dead beat of ninety miles against a heavy sea. It was what is called a good passage, and a ... ...views with Stanislao. The first was a certain afternoon of tropic rain, which we passed together in the verandah of the club; talking at times with he... ... cli- mate. A strong draught of wind blew day and night over the anchorage. Day and night the same fantastic and at- tenuated clouds fled across the h... ...k- ers. His name and his Burns testify to Scottish blood; but he is an American born, somewhere far east; followed the trade of a ship-carpenter; and ... ...mpound and along the street. The squall was blown by, the moon shone with incomparable lustre, the air lay dead as in a room, and yet all the isle sou...

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...In early bloom an oracle of age. Whene’er his influence Jove vouchsafes to shower, To bless the natal and the nuptial hour; From the great sire transm... ...t wall! Had some distinguish’d day renown’d my fall (Such as was that when showers of javelins fled From conquering T roy around Achilles dead), All G... ...he sun’s meridian rays had power, Nor wind sharp piercing, nor the rushing shower; The verdant arch so close its texture kept: Beneath this covert gre... ...hen a lion in the midnight hours, Beat by rude blasts, and wet with wintry showers, Descends terrific from the mountains brow; With living flames his ... ...use, And from his locks compress the weedy ooze; The balmy oil, a fragrant shower, be sheds; Then, dressed, in pomp magnificently treads. The warrior ... ...round; His head, that bow’d with many a pensive care, Fenced with a double cap of goatskin hair: His buskins old, in former service torn, But swell re...

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...a yield to Windsor-shade. STREPHON. All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers, Hush’d are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers; 70 If D... ...se, and haste to yonder woodbine bowers, A soft retreat from sudden vernal showers; The turf with rural dainties shall be crown’d. While opening bloom... ...r see! the gath’ring flocks to shelter tend, And from the Pleiads fruitful showers descend. VARIATIONS VER. 36. And clusters lurk beneath the curling ... ...how: The Naïads wept in every watery bower, And Jove consented in a silent shower. Accept, O Garth 9 the Muse’s early lays, That adds this wreath of ... ...ns to the thirsty swain, Not balmy sleep to labourers faint with pain, Not showers to larks, or sunshine to the bee, Are half so charming as thy sight...

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...-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly ma... ...nstead of being keen, is confiding and benign. He has thrown off his paper cap, and you see that his hair is not thick and straight, like Adam’s, but ... ... had straightened his back, and was putting out his hand towards his paper cap. Adam alone had gone on with his work as if nothing had happened. But o... ...clean old woman, in a dark-striped linen gown, a red kerchief, and a linen cap, talking to some speck- led fowls which appeared to have been drawn tow... ...nd turned round to have another long look at the stalwart workman in paper cap, leather breeches, and dark-blue wor- sted stockings. Adam, unconscious... ...ad a packet of yellow love-letters in a private drawer, and sweet children showered kisses on her sallow cheeks. And I believe there have been plenty ... ...places for her to be carried over this afternoon, for there had been heavy showers in the morning, though now the clouds had rolled off and lay in tow... ...was set down at the door-place, and the mother enforced her reproof with a shower of kisses. “Y ou’re surprised to see me at this hour o’ the day,” sa...

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...way with the plugs out, filled with women and children and then with water, and cap sized. Another boat had been lowered by one end, and still hung in... ... has absorbed the sound of Bow Bells with his mother’s milk. A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny sack about his slim hips proclaimed h... ...hesitated while he groped in his vocabulary and framed a complete answer. “The cap’n is Wolf Larsen, or so men 10 The Sea Wolf call him. I never hear... ...thank for this kindness?” I asked, when stood completely arrayed, a tiny boy’s cap on my head, and for coat a dirty, striped cotton jacket which ended... ...and righted the water swept across the deck, wetting us above our shoe tops. A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.... ...ley stove. Nor was my knee any better. The swelling had not gone down, and the cap was still up on edge. Hobbling about on it from morning to night wa... ...shape in long swaying lines, which were detached and flung to the deck in mimic showers at each surge of the schooner. I was aware of a pent, stifled fe...

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...ling On silver anvils, and the splash and stir Of fountains spouted up and showering down In meshes of the jasmine and the rose: And all about us peal... ... the boles, and race By all the fountains: fleet I was of foot: Before me showered the rose in flakes; behind I heard the puffed pursuer; at mine ear... ...ine on the cliff, When all the glens are drowned in azure gloom Of thunder-shower, she floated to us and said: ‘Y ou have done well and like a gentlem... ... said, ‘And make us all we would be, great and good.’ He knightlike in his cap instead of casque, A cap of Tyrol borrowed from the hall, Arranged the ... ... free, And, ever following those two crownèd twins, Commerce and conquest, shower the fiery grain Of freedom broadcast over all the orbs Between the N... ...e: Love in the sacred halls Held carnival at will, and flying struck With showers of random sweet on maid and man. Nor did her father cease to press ...

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...ave me weep? why, now thou hast thy will: For raging wind blows up incessant showers, And when the rage allays, the rain begins. These tears are my sw... ... proclaim’d In every borough as we pass along; And he that throws not up his cap for joy Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head. King Edward, va... ...d graced thy poor sire with his bridal day, Even then that sunshine brew’d a shower for him, That wash’d his father’s fortunes forth of France, And he... ...son! Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee, Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise, Blown with the windy tempest of my heart, Upon thy words, ...

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...p No. 2 was a very stout, soft, kind-looking old gentle- man, in a square cap, with a handsome tassel of green and gold round his portly breast and b... ...ittle boat came to- wards the steamer as quick as ever she could jump; and Cap- tain Cooper roaring out, “Stop her!” to “Lady Mary Wood,” her Ladyship... ...ons the poor old man, looking ruefully round him once more, put his square cap un- der his arm, tucked up his long black petticoats, so as to show his... ...ows are marching and clapping muskets, and crying “All’s Well,” dressed in cap and feather, in place of honest nightcaps best befitting the decent hou... ... Fancy Sir Robert Wilson, his nose just visible over the sheets, his night-cap and the huge key (you see the very identical one in Reynolds’s portrait... ... benefit of Russia. As the Pontiff of Mussulmans passed into the mosques a shower of petitions was flung from the steps where the crowd was collected,...

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...een, sturdy, perhaps loutish, with an honest ruddy face under his leathern cap, a coarse smock frock and stout gaiters. He was watching the fifteen sh... ...d between the mountain ash boughs and ivy, to his great surprise, a square cap and black cassock tucked up, and then a bit of brown leathern coat, whi... ... —Lord Selborne. PATIENCE, in her tight little white cap, sat spinning by the door, rocking the cradle with her foot, while Rush... ...st in a sort of numb dismay after the shock, not even feeling that a heavy shower had begun to fall, till the baby, whom Patience had laid on the gras... ...ey knew the soldiers were gone. There was nothing but Steadfast’s leathern cap to hold the milk, and he felt as if his fingers had no strength to draw... ...Stead did not understand this, he thought only of looking under each steel cap or tall, slouching hat for Jephthah. Sev- eral times a youthful, slende...

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... happened, however, that one of the dogs he discharged his load upon was a cap-maker’s dog, of which his master was very fond. The stone came down hit... ...nd found him sitting up in bed in a green baize waistcoat and a red Toledo cap, and so withered and dried up that he looked as if he had been turned i... ...an a bad compensation. I speak in this way, Sancho, to show you that I can shower down proverbs just as well as yourself; and in short, I mean to say,... ...ls; in which dul- cet moisture bathed, the plants, too, seemed to shed and shower down a pearly spray, the willows distilled sweet manna, the foun- ta... ...titude of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower of stakes that fell upon him; in short, he said to himself that coul... ...ght; and the good soldier wins fame in proportion as he is obedient to his cap- tains and those in command over him. And remember, my son, that it is ... ... himself close to the show, and with unexampled rapidity and fury began to shower down blows on the puppet troop of Moors, knocking over some, decapit... ...emselves between them that he could not avenge him. Far from it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets unnumbered leve... ...b of a lawyer, with a gaban of tawny watered camlet over all and a montera cap of the same material, and mounted a la gineta upon a mule. Behind him, ...

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...t put out his head. He wore a red woolen bonnet, exactly like the Phrygian cap in which Lib- erty is tricked out, a piece of head-gear in common use i... ... conclusion as to the capacity of the head, which was cov- ered by a close cap; but hidden though it was, it seemed to him to be one of the square-sha... ...ildren and old people, who hailed my arrival with insults accompanied by a shower of stones. “In the midst of the uproar I should perhaps have fallen ... ...olorless face, with its double chin, looked out from under a round plaited cap, which made her look paler than she really was. She talked incessantly,... ...elf somewhat more erect. Her clothing was likewise a mass of rags, and the cap that she wore was of the coarsest materials. On her back she carried a ... ... of civilization will continue. When you have set yourself to do anything, Cap- tain Bluteau, something within you urges you on, you see, and you cann... ...urther than anybody else, and of passing through volleys of grape-shot and showers of bullets which carried us off like flies, but which had a respect... ...ame an officer forthwith, and pensions and gifts of duchies poured down in showers. There were fortunes for the staff that never cost France a penny, ... ...ngs fell about our ears like slates, and molten lead and iron came down in showers; it was really horrible; it was a light to see our sorrows by, I ca...