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... that Napoleon preferred the chances of defeat to the danger of arming the masses. If during the last eight years I have again and again given up the ... ...c It was in rushing to retake this famous cemetery for the third time that Massena, wounded and carried in the box of a cabriolet, made this splendid ... ...a painter would gladly have paid four francs an hour to copy,—a daz- zling mass of snow, worn like that in all the classical repre- sentations of Deit... ...ce. Self-interest has become, specially since 1789, the sole motive of the masses; they never ask if an 45 Balzac action is legal or immoral, but onl... ...household and the people from whom they come. Do- mestic service is of the masses, and to the masses it will ever remain attached. This fatal comrades... ...scaffold. Don’t steal anything, make people give it to you. Theft leads to murder, and murder brings down the justice of men. The razor of justice,—th... ...the saying is, on the tail of the ser- pent; and in avoiding, as one would murder, the infliction of a blow to the self-love of any one lower than one... ...ecuting in person you might get a few years’ im- prisonment for the actual murderers. Better shut our eyes than open them, if by opening them we bring... ... long as the peasants do not burn the farm-houses and buildings, commit no murders, poison no one, and pay their taxes, they let them do as they like;...

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...lank gable end to the road. There Chapter 1 10 was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom— apple, plum, pear, cherry. And as we drove by I co... .... For in stance, hay ricks in the trees, and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch, their white stems shining like silver through th... ...the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a p... ...r, old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of massive stone. I could see even in th e dim light that the stone was mass... ...ing light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clank ing of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise o... ... bank, read it!” I went over and read, “Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, age 30.” When I... ...back Mr. Swales went on, “Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the coast of Andres! An’ you consated his body lay under! W... ...is no evidence to adduce, and whether or not the man him self committed the murders there is now none to say. The folk here hold almost universally t... ...imes awful, but the silences that follow are more deadly still, for he means murder in every turn and movement. Just now he spoke coherent words for...

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... me. The gloom through American Notes – Dickens 13 which the great black mass holds its direct and certain course; the rushing water, plainly heard,... ...otests (being highly bilious) it is death to him to look at. News! A dozen murders on shore would lack the interest of these slight incidents at sea. ... ...ly believe that the public institu tions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, be ne... ...shion with governments to display any ex traordinary regard for the great mass of the people or to recognize their existence as improvable creatures,... ... an immense amount of evil passion and misery. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, at Boston, is superintended by a body o... ...articular day, which might emanate from the rather doubtful authority of a murderer in Newgate. These girls, as I have said, were all well dressed: an... ...is an American fash ion. One of the provinces of the state legislature of Massachusetts is to alter ugly names into pretty ones, as the children impr... ...risoners. A spot was shown me in the sleep ing ward, where a watchman was murdered some years since in the dead of night, in a desperate attempt to e... ...ad broken from his cell. A woman, too, was pointed out to me, who, for the murder of her husband, had been a close prisoner for sixteen years. ‘Do you...

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...elfth; and the spectroscope, to which he had at once resorted, indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enor- mous velocity t... ... orite had descended. No one seems to have troubled to look for the fallen mass that night. But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen th... ...d incrustation. It had a diameter of about thirty yards. He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites... ...nd amusing themselves—until I stopped them—by throwing stones at the giant mass. After I had spoken to them about it, they began playing at “touch” in... ...H G Wells T wo large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded, and had, one mig... ... Talk about fishers of men—fighters of fish it is this time!” “It ain’t no murder killing beasts like that,” said the first speaker. “Why not shell th...

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... very “advanced” ideas in 1914, very Utopian. Against them was an unbroken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this “war to ... ...e explanation, and by teaching in school and church and press of the whole mass of all the peoples con- cerned. I underline the adjective “Free” here ... ... residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independent. The practical fus... ...r presence will be—must not be allowed to swamp the voices of these larger masses of mankind. And this state of affairs may come about more easily tha... ... of the settlement will have been drawn plainly with the ap- proval of the mass of mankind. 15 H.G. Wells II II II II II THE LEA THE LEA THE LEA THE ... ..., he would be bitterly ashamed of the Belgian iniquity, of the subma- rine murders, and a score of such stains upon his national honour; and he would ...

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...g monsters wending with many feet. The air was heavy, and cold with dew. A mass of wet grass, marched upon, rustled like silk. There was an occasional... ...re wine- tinted the waters of the river. Its rays, shining upon the moving masses of troops, brought forth here and there sudden gleams of silver or g... ...nd these jolted dreams were never perfect to him afterward, but remained a mass of blurred shapes. Presently he began to feel the effects of the war a... ...e dark lines of other troops. Far in front he thought he could see lighter masses protruding in points from the forest. They were suggestive of un-num... ...uth turned quick eyes upon the field. He discerned forms begin to swell in masses out of a distant wood. He again saw the tilted flag speeding forward... ...saw their dripping corpses on an imagined field, he said that he was their murderer. Again he thought that he wished he was dead. He believed that he ... ...e foli-age they could see the roof of a house. One win-dow, glowing a deep murder red, shone squarely through the leaves. From the edifice a tall lean... ... ter as quickly as possible, and he ran desperately, as if pur- sued for a murder. His face was drawn hard and tight with the stress of his endeavor. ...

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...me for the Mississippi—’the Great Sewer.’ This mud, solidified, would make a mass a mile square and two hun dred and forty one feet high. The mud dep... ...t of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass; they were always prepared, as one of the quaint chroniclers of the ... ...t ing point), where a tribe of war whooping savages swarmed out to meet and murder them; but they appealed to the Vir gin for help; so in place of a... ...e naked eye! I’m the man with a petri fied heart and biler iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the d... ...full of islands, towns, bars, “points,” and bends; and a curiously inanimate mass of lumber it was, too. However, inasmuch as I could shut my eyes and... ...as approaching, but some said the sound showed fail ing strength. The crowd massed themselves against the boiler deck railings, leaning over and sta... ...this course doubtfully , or hesitatingly, but with the confidence of a dying murderer—converted one, I mean. For you will have come to know, with a de... ...witness that could be produced against them, which was the negro himself, by murdering him, and throwing his body into the Mississippi. Even if it was... ...ippi. Even if it was established that they had stolen a negro, before he was murdered, they were always prepared to evade punishment; for they conceal...

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...erges from his retreat below, and proposes a visit to the Cathedral, whose massive tower frowns down upon the court yard of the inn. Off we go; and ve... ...ortably. We went, first of all, up a rocky height, to the cathedral: where Mass was performing to an auditory very like that of Lyons, namely, several... ...hut in by four unyielding, close, hard walls; still profoundly dark; still massively doored and fastened, as of old. Goblin, looking back as I have de... ...en (‘and priests,’ says Gob 20 Pictures from Italy lin, ‘priests’): were murdered, and hurled, the dying and the dead, into this dreadful pit, where... ...quick lime was tumbled down upon their bodies. Those ghastly tokens of the massacre were soon no more; but while one stone of the strong building in w... ...ense thickness and giddy height of the walls, the enormous strength of the massive towers, the great extent of the building, its gigantic proportions,... ...a deep bell; the shade of approach ing night on everything. If I had been murdered there, in some former life, I could not have seemed to remember th... ...ht air, but in the midnight of that murky prison, Hope’s extinguisher, and Murder’s herald. I had my foot upon the spot, where, at the same dread hour... ... less, because he was nearly slain by a priest, sub orned, by priests, to murder him at the altar: in acknowledg ment of his endeavours to reform a ...

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... king of another of the seven kingdoms. This Queen Edburga was a handsome murderess, who poi soned people when they offended her. One day, she mixed... ... he discovered the cheat. So, he caused his false friend, Athelwold, to be murdered in a wood, and married his widow, this bad Elfrida. Six or seven y... ...e boy kings, Ethelred, whom Elfrida, when he cried out at the sight of his murdered brother riding away from the castle gate, unmercifully beat with a... ...s. The people so disliked this boy, on account of his cruel mother and the murder she had done to promote him, that Dunstan would not have had him for... ...e prime of life, and sworn to be revenged upon the English nation, for the massacre of that dread thirteenth of November, when his countrymen and coun... ...ht. It soon raged everywhere. The English, keeping side by side in a great mass, cared no more for the showers of Norman arrows than if they had been ... ...perate outlaws that they were. Conspiracies were set on foot for a general massacre of the Normans, like the old massacre of the Danes. In short, the ... ...ily fond of royalty, and so got away in perfect safety. Next day the whole mass marched on to London Bridge. There was a drawbridge in the middle, wh... ...ision of the French coming to the relief of the first, closed up in a firm mass; the English, headed by the King, attacked them; and the deadliest par...

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...ntil early in the twentieth century this strange wanderer appeared. A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy, rushing without warning out of the bla... ... of the concussion had incontinently turned two solid globes into one vast mass of incandescence. Round the world that day, two hours before the dawn,... ... ever faster and faster towards the sun. Already every second this blazing mass flew a hundred miles, and every second its terrific velocity increased... ...laces, mounds and hills, black with people. Every minaret was a clustering mass of people, who fell one by one into the turbid waters, as heat and ter... ...ngs. They saw them from their own standpoint of course. “Consider- ing the mass and temperature of the missile that was flung through our solar system... ... him back in the way of the train? Had he just been within an ace of being murdered? Suppose this slouching, scowling monster did know any- thing? For... ...coals a figure that wriggled violently and became still. An hour after the murder, to any- one coming into the shed it would have looked exactly as if...

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...o points that would otherwise be open to misconstruction. 1. The paper on “Murder as one of the Fine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account of W... ...s”* seemed to exact from me some account of Williams, the dreadful London murderer of the last generation; not only because the amateurs had so much ... ...ay add that this interest benefited also by the mystery which invested the murders; mystery as to various points but especially as respected one impor... ...rious points but especially as respected one important ques- tion, Had the murderer any accomplice?* There was, there- fore, reason enough, both in t... ...d, at that time to Laxton, beside my sister and myself, were Lord and Lady Massey. They were understood to be domesticated at Laxton for a very long s... ...unauthorized by anything ever hinted to me by Lady Carbery) was, that Lord Massey might probably be under some cloud of pecuniary embarrassments, such... ...ly by no shadow of any earthly interest, killed by ennui, all at once Lord Massey had fallen passionately in love with a fair young countrywoman, well... ...nds or romances had reported was more memo- rable. Lapse of time (for Lord Massey had now been married three or four years), and deep seclusion from g... ...drawing-room door open, and suddenly disclose the beautiful figure of Lady Massey, than a mighty cloud seemed to roll away from the young Irishman’s b...

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...med Catherine Hayes, who was burned at Tyburn, in 1726, for the deliberate murder of her husband, under very revolting circumstances. Mr. Thackeray’s ... ...hand, ‘Max,’ says she, ‘will you for- give me?’ ‘What!’ says I. ‘Forgive a murderess?’ says I. ‘No, curse me, never!’ ‘Y our cruelty will kill me,’ so... ...which made him exclaim, on leaving the room,— “By heavens! the woman means murder! I would not be the Holofernes to lie by the side of such a Judith a... ...he, waking up at once, and spurning her away from him. “What, you infernal murderess, have you killed me?” “Oh, Max!—don’t kill me, Max! It was laudan... ...unt, as he too pulled out his toledo, and sprang at Mrs. Catherine. “Help! murder! thieves!” shrieked she. “Save me, Mr. Trip- pet, save me!” and she ... ... which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and poured a flood of silver light upon the little ch...

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...e second only in value to the “Posthumous Po- ems” of 1824. To the growing mass of Shelley’s verse yet more material was added in 1870 by Mr. William ... ...oss, and the gap it made seemed to close as quickly over his memory as the murderous sea above his living frame. Hereafter men will lament that his tr... ...t in ruin o’er the world: And they did build vast trophies, instruments Of murder, human bones, barbaric gold, Skins torn from living men, and towers ... ...epid front of youth! How sweet the smiles of taintless infancy. Within the massy prison’s mouldering courts, Fearless and free the ruddy children play... ...pausing on the edge of the riven wave; Now leaving far behind the bursting mass That fell, convulsing ocean: safely fled— As if that frail and wasted ... ...Caucasus, with sound 48 V olume One That shook the everlasting rocks, the mass Filled with one whirlpool all that ample chasm: Stair above stair the ... ... _420 Now shone upon the forest, one vast mass Of mingling shade, whose brown magnificence A narrow vale embosoms. Th... ...ti- tion, and an utter extinction of the domestic affections; the judicial murder of the advocates of Liberty; the temporary triumph of oppression, th... ...on their own imaginations, and become unconscious accomplices in the daily murder of all genius either not so aspiring or not so fortunate as their ow...

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...ft was opening, so that pres- ently, it seemed possible at any moment, the mass would fall headlong into the blue deeps below. This impending avalanch... ...aw a peasant appearing and disappearing be- hind trees and projecting rock masses, and coming across the previous plank at a vigorous trot… . Under th... ...t destroys him. Raw soldiers under fire bunch together and armies fight in masses, men are mowed down in swathes, because only so is the courage of th... ...a little dia- mond buckle on a black velvet band glittered between the two masses of butter-coloured hair that flowed back from her forehead, her head... ...e about us—a thing that talks appointments, a toady, a port-wine bibber, a mass of detail, a conscious maker of neat sayings, a growing belly under a ... ... and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man had been found murdered in an empty house in Hoxton and the King had had a conversa- tion ... ...men live when the forces of civiliza- tion fail. We have been close to two murders—” “T wo?” “That little crowd in the square at Scutari— That was a m... ...to various meetings and showed him in great detail the scene of the recent murder of the Grand Duke Sergius. The buildings opposite the old French can... ...d stranger who was suddenly shouting directions to them in sympathetically murdered Russian. It was not that he brought powerful blows or subtle strat...

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...n introduced to the two winsome young Douglases only as a prelude to their murder, and every day brought tidings of some fresh violence; nay, for the ... ...ry day brought tidings of some fresh violence; nay, for the second time, a murder was perpetrated in the Queen’s own chamber. The poor woman had never... ...sweet Meg and her braw court, and the tilts and tour- neys, but live among murderous caitiffs and reivers all my days,’ sobbed Jean. ‘I would not be s... ...e nurse. Being far up in the tower, it ventured to have two windows in the massive walls, so thick that five-and- twenty steps from the floor were nee... ... the hall, to be swallowed while the little rough ponies were being laden. Mass was to be heard at the first halting-place, the Benedictine nunnery of... ...l known as pious bene- factors to the Church. They were just in time for a mass which a pilgrim priest was about to say, and they were all admitted to... ...ed as a holiday, and the whole party in all their splendours attended high mass in the beautiful church. After time had been given for the ensuing mea... ...f the week, but they looked on from the broad walk in the thickness of the massive walls; the Duke with his two beautiful little boys by his side, the... ...dly has been charged upon his memory, and he has been supposed guilty of a murder, of which he was certainly innocent, and which probably was no murde...

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...tainly have put in peril the per- sons and property of those who assisted. Murder itself was not more sternly and certainly punished in the State of M... ...er examination, which I knew well would be fatal to me. Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a ... ...calker, he promptly decided that the best place for me was in New Bedford, Mass. He told me that many ships for whaling voy- ages were fitted out ther... ...d, I was safe in New Bedford, a citizen of the grand old common- wealth of Massachusetts. Once initiated into my new life of freedom and assured by Mr... ... Mr. Johnson told me that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts that would prevent a colored man from being governor of the S... ...self. A fip in Mary- land was six and a quarter cents, called fourpence in Massa- chusetts. But no harm came from the “fi’penny-bit” blun- der, and I ... ...ch I was destined to meet in New Bedford and elsewhere on the free soil of Massachusetts. For instance, though colored children attended the schools, ...

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...es, “I shall be sure to come in for it in three years’ time, and then——” A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on... ...hen what must it be to live when every moment of your life is tainted with murder? And have we not just admitted that a host of hu- man creatures in o... ...e, or think of going to the Bouffons, or of setting up a carriage; who are murderers in thought when dear ones, with the irresistible charm of innocen... ...go into a consumption.” For the merchant the world is a bale of goods or a mass of circulating bills; for most young men it is a woman, and for a woma... ...one sentiment of love. T e Deum laudamus! The chant went up from the black masses of men and women kneeling in the cathedral, like a sudden breaking o...

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...nse of the tuitui, suffering itself to be touched with wind-swayed grasses and not minding—but let the grass be moved by a man, and it shuts up; the w... ...Now, up to date, that is all my design, and I beg to warn you till we have the whole (or much) of the stuff together, you can hardly judge—and I can h... ...al, creative—to get this stuff jointed and moving. If I can do that, I will trouble you for style; anybody might write it, and it would be splendid; w... ...nd given up, as a decep- tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Api... ..., is always present to my mind; the horror of creeping things, a superstitious horror of the void and the powers about me, the horror of my own devast... ...o make faces and speak bitter words to a man—who has deceived me, it is true—but who is poor, and older than I, and a kind of a gentleman too. On the ... ...rs. In the mean- while, I am seized quite mal-a-propos with desire to write a story, The Bloody Wedding, founded on fact—very pos- sibly true, being a... ...ing, involving many dark and many moonlight rides, secret counsels which are at once divulged, sealed letters which are read aloud in confidence to th... ...) for what it is worth— D. B. Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad. The Second Par; Wherein Are Set Forth the Misfortunes in Which He Was Invo...

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... Sir Damas, When shall we to the field? Sir, said Sir Damas, ye shall hear mass. And so Arthur heard a mass, and when mass was done there came a squir... ...lost two good knights for the love of one. So on the morn they heard their masses in the abbey, and so they rode forth till that they came to a great ... ...im asleep: Lo, said the Damosel of the Lake, ye ought to be ashamed for to murder such a knight. And therewith she threw such an enchantment upon her ... ...ke him ready. And so Sir Marhaus arose and armed him, and then there was a mass sung afore him, and brake his fast, and so mounted on horseback in the... ...night Sir Uwaine had great cheer. And on the morn he arose early and heard mass, and brake his fast, and so he rode unto the plain without the gates, ...

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...at the summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edifices for murder Christian science ever adopted. My hobby-horse is a quiet beast, sui... ...our gallantry, and lauded the hu- manity of our people. If we are to go on murdering each other in the old-fashioned way, what a pity it is that our b... ... virtuous and meritorious actions, when they are performing acts of folly, murdering Socrates, or pelting Aristides with holy oyster-shells—all for Vi... ... as you looked at them with the telescope, there peeped out of the general mass a score of pleasant episodes of Eastern life—there were cottages with ... ...ot so magnificent on inspection and seen singly as they are when beheld en masse from the waters. But why form expectations so lofty?If you see a grou... ...ing over the water, and His Highness is coming from his prayers. After the murder of that little child, it seems to me one can never look with anythin... ...ining be- yond it, rise the great walls of the outer Seraglio Gardens:huge masses of ancient masonry, over which peep the roofs of nu- merous kiosks a... ...t a spot at which you look, but some violent deed has been done there:some massacre has been committed, some victim has been murdered, some idol has b... ... left, and backwards and for- wards, until every mosquito should have been massacred that may have taken refuge within your muslin canopy. Do what you...