...ar away on the unclouded sky the pale lightning, the heat-lightning of the tropics, played tremulously amongst the low stars in short, faint, mysterio... ... never veiled, and flooding the earth with the everlasting sunshine of the tropics—that sun- shine which, in its unbroken splendour, oppresses the sou... ...t for ever to his original Nielsen! But old Nelson (or Nielsen) out of the tropics seemed unthinkable. And yet he was there, asking me to call. His ad...

...ft once more—for Bankok. “We had fair breezes, smooth water right into the tropics, and the old Judea lumbered along in the sunshine. When she went ei...

..., with- out grace, all elbows and knees, and you find it’s a nature of the tropics! The women of duty look like coquettes, and the others look like al...

...e I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it ...

...s not greatly more striking than that between the ordinary face of night and the splendour that shone upon us in that drive. Two in our waggon knew ni...

...And still it was a hot house flower,—an outlandish flower,—a flower of the tropics, such as appeared to have sprung passionately out of a soil the ver... ...rural buds and leaflets, and wore nothing but her invariable flower of the tropics. “What do you think of Priscilla now, Mr. Coverdale?” asked she, su...

...e ones that we shall spend in sailing about the islands within or near the tropics, so that I shall have little more shivering limbs or blue hands, th... ...f New Zealanders, but with the soft yielding character of the child of the tropics. They are fond, that is the word for them. I have had boys and men ... ...teson was on board, preparing for the voyage; very cold, and eager for the tropics. The part- ing voice in his farewell letter is: ‘I think I see more... ... to get into Port Patteson, and to land in the wet, ‘as it can rain in the tropics.’ The nearest village, however, was empty, everybody being gone to ... ...eason and the cold too great for a party of scholars first coming from the tropics. But I can go back- wards and forwards through the islands and Norf... ...nd “Ecce Homo.” I tried Maine’s “Ancient Law,” but it is too tough for the tropics, unless I chance to feel very fresh. I generally get an hour in the...

...t the equator. I wrapped round its unhonoured form the royal mantle of the tropics, and have essayed to put into the hollow sound the very anguish of ...

...t the Equator. I wrapped round its unhonoured form the royal mantle of the tropics and have essayed to put into the hollow sound the very anguish of p...

... of silk embroidered by fairy fingers; plumes col- ored by the fire of the tropics drooping from haughty heads; pearls twined in braided hair; shot or...

.... “No!” “What has happened?” I asked after a pause. “Have we jumped to the tropics? “ “It was as I expected. This air has evaporated—if it is air. At ...

... pushing to enter it; and fair flowers, indeed, but serpents too, like the tropics. It tries us more than anything else in the world—well, just as goo...

...tinguished little men and little files of papers link us to islands in the tropics, to frozen wildernesses gashed for gold, to vast temple-studded pla...

... sun falling plumb upon the sands, produced an atmosphere like that of the tropics. The salt shone up like bunches of white violets on the surface of ...

...w him. He would take to you best of them all, and you to him. He is in the tropics now, looking out a place—it’s a secret—for poor English working-men...

...g alone among the broad leaves and tall trees of some desert island in the tropics—as he very likely fancied, for the time, they were. ‘Have we far to...

...ith little to interest either the eye or the ear. Although the heat of the tropics is but little felt there on account of its altitude, men and women ... ...eatest part of that month amidst the sweltering heats of the West In- dian tropics! In the first month of her hurry and flurry Mrs. Arkwright was a ha...

...! What is it now?” I went in at once. It was a strange room to find in the tropics. Twilight and stuffiness reigned in there. The fellow had hung enor... ...ther- of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost gray, with a strange reminder of high latitudes....

... The ascent of this lovely lane of my dry stream filled me with delight. I could not but be reminded of old Mayne Reid, as I have been more than once ... ... but now that the cloud no longer played its part of a nocturnal sun, we could see that sight, so rare with us at home that it was counted a portent, ... ...sing mete- ors of the tropic sky that make so much of my pleasure here; though a ship’s deck is the place to enjoy them. O what awful scenery, from a ... ... as Simele calls it. About my coming to Europe, I get more and more doubt- ful, and rather incline to Ceylon again as place of meeting. I am so absurd... ...ich I floundered aimlessly. The very moun- tain was invisible from here. The rain came and went; now in sunlit April showers, now with the proper tram...

... night, with no wind and the ther- mometer below zero, the brain works with much vivacity; and the next moment I had seen the circumstance trans- plan...