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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...dig, and for the matter of six weeks in the summer he worked at surveying, carpentry, or some other of his numerous dexterities, for hire. For more th... ... in the fifteenth century. Villon says he left a rag of his tails on every bush. Indeed, he must have had many a weary tramp, many a slen- der meal, a...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...et would enjoy one of those camellias,” thought he, “and these people have bushels of them for mere show. If I were papa, I should be tempted to be li... ...to believe him a figment of Tom’s imagination, when Mary spied him under a bush, lying at the feet of a boy, with whom he was sharing the spoil. Harry... ...rsued his researches in the tool-house, where, nearly concealed by a great bushel-basket, lurked Master Thomas, crouching down, with a volume of Gil B... ...e, with ruddy complexion, deep lustreless black eyes, and a heavy straight bush of black moustache, veiling rather thick lips. Blanche reiterated in- ... ...ut earthwards! it has committed self-destruction by running foul of a rose-bush. A general blank! “You here, Ethel?” said Norman, as the elders laughe... ... reared our doll family as judiciously as tenderly. There are treasures of carpentry still extant, that he made for them.” 427 Yo n g e “Oh, I am so ...

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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...irit of Japan, he told me, was pic- tured in that box; that plain piece of carpentry was as much inspired by the spirit of perfection as the happiest ... ...n ever, but is not without a strange deadly beauty: the hills covered with bushes of a metallic green with coppery patches of soil in between; the val...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ng playing on the sofa, and the mother was washing up, he came in from his carpentry, his sleeves rolled up, his waistcoat hanging open. He was still ... ...de garden, where she was walk- ing up and down the path beside the currant bushes under the long wall. The garden was a narrow strip, bounded from the... ...p. Lan- guidly she looked about her; the clumps of white phlox seemed like bushes spread with linen; a moth ricochetted over them, and right across th... ...invigorated her. She passed along the path, hesi- tating at the white rose-bush. It smelled sweet and simple. She touched the white ruffles of the ros... ...But Paul hunted far and wide. He loved being out in the country, among the bushes. But he also could not bear to go home to his mother empty. That, he... ...k pass of the buildings, they saw the Castle on its bluff of brown, green- bushed rock, in a positive miracle of delicate sunshine. “Won’t it be nice ... ...er. The two men spent afternoons together on the land or in the loft doing carpentry, when it rained. And they talked together, or Paul taught Edgar t...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...OCTOBER 1879.] MY DEAR HENLEY, – Herewith the Pavilion on the Links, grand carpentry story in nine chapters, and I should hesitate to say how many tab... ...od knows. It is the dibbs that are wanted. It is not bad, though I say it; carpentry, of course, but not bad at that; and who else can carpenter in En... ... 124 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN 608 BUSH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO [DECEMBER 26, 1879]. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I am now ... ... 125 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN 608 BUSH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO [JANUARY 10, 1880]. MY DEAR COLVIN, – This is a ... ...a volume but- toned into the breast of it, may be observed leaving No. 608 Bush and descending Powell with an active step. The gentleman is R. L. S.; ... ...pence sterling (0 pounds, 0s. 5d.). Half an hour later, the inhabitants of Bush Street ob- serve the same slender gentleman armed, like George Wash- i... ...urable craft. His next appearance is at the restaurant of one Donadieu, in Bush Street, between Dupont and Kearney, where a copious meal, half a bottl...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...costs any thing to speak of, unless you plant more than enough. I got twelve bushels of beans, and eighteen bushels of potatoes, beside some peas and ... ...ho were above such trifling. But to proceed with my statistics. By surveying, carpentry, and day labor of various other kinds in the village in the mea... ...onomy 39 at a greater cost, at the store. I saw that I could easily raise my bushel or two of rye and Indian corn, for the former will grow on the poo... ... but sluggish body, yet gracefully carried, with a thick sunburnt neck, dark bushy hair, and dull sleepy blue eyes, which were occasionally lit up wit... ...are if he only earned his board. Frequently he would leave his dinner in the bushes, when his dog had caught a woodchuck by the way, and go back a mil... ...with others I had often seen used as fencing stuff, standing or sitting on a bushel in the fields to keep cattle and himself from straying, visited me,...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...re, with leaden breastplate, though a small one; (See Weber, ii. 185-231.) bushy in red grizzled locks; nay, with long tile-beard? It is Jourdan, unju... ...passion to rags, pauses on the Thespian boards; lis- tens, with that black bushy head, to the sound of the world’s drama: shall the Mimetic become Rea... ...is full merely towards something! For benighted fowls, when you beat their bushes, rush towards any light. Thus Frederick Baron Trenck too is here; ma... ... of tearful women wetting whole ells of cambric in concert, of impassioned bushy-whiskered youth threaten- ing suicide, and such like, to be so entire... ...wy linen and delicate pantaloon alternates with the soiled check-shirt and bushel-breeches; for both have cast their coats, and under both are four li... ... space. The Ecole Militaire has galleries and overvaulting canopies, where Carpentry and Painting have vied, for the upper Authorities; triumphal arch...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...w moisten.— All these heaped and huddled together, with nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between them;—crammed in, like salted fish in their ... ...ed of so still a man, we might call a real love. None of those bell girdles, bushel breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the... ...potence of early culture and nurture: hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a high towering, wide shadowing tree; either a sick yellow cabba... ...company; in front, from the wide opened doors, fair outlook over blossom and bush, over grove and velvet green, stretching, undulating onwards to the ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...es smiling above them like a prince issuing from his enchantment in a rose-bush, with a handkerchief swiftly meta- morphosed from the most delicately ... ...71 George Eliot The young man had laid down his sketch-book and risen. His bushy light-brown curls, as well as his youthfulness, iden- tified him at o... ..., almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. Little details ga... ...s spectacles again, showed a deepened depression in the outer angle of his bushy eyebrows, which gave his face a peculiar mildness (pardon these detai... ...sly on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to disadv... ...id that however Bulstrode might ring if you tried him, he liked good solid carpentry and ma- sonry, and had a notion both of drains and chimneys. In f...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...es smiling above them like a prince issuing from his enchantment in a rose bush, with a handkerchief swiftly metamorphosed from the most delicately od... ...my aunt Julia.” The young man had laid down his sketch book and risen. His bushy light brown curls, as well as his youthfulness, identified him at onc... ..., almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. Little details ga... ...s spectacles again, showed a deepened depression in the outer angle of his bushy eyebrows, which gave his face a peculiar mildness (pardon these detai... ...usly on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers Middlemarch 333 and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which... ...id that however Bulstrode might ring if you tried him, he liked good solid carpentry and masonry, and had a notion both of drains and chimneys. In fac...

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