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... Captain Oxford as he did of Vernon Whitford. His enemy was the world, the mass, which confounds us in a lump, which has breathed on her whom we have ... ...tinction is the thing to be aimed at. Otherwise we are a wel- tering human mass. Women must teach us to venerate them, 50 The Egoist or we may as wel... ..., left an opening for the incredible to add its weight to the suspi- cious mass; and who would have fancied Clara Middleton so wild a victim of the in... ...led to compass its vastness, and, as it were, perceive the whole spherical mass of the wretched girl’s guilt impudently turning on its axis. Thus to d... ...was a healthy young woman returned to the surface of his thoughts like the murdered body pitched into the river, which will not drown, and calls upon ... ...condescend to the weapon, and that the more popu- lar necessarily the more murderous that weapon is,—among the elect, to which it is your distinction ... ...arful row of the domestics; shouting, screaming, cries for the police, and murder topping all. What did they see? They saw two prodigious burglars ext... ...ide him in the all but equal slices of his egoistic from his amatory self: murder of his individuality was the crime of Horace De Craye. And further, ...

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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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...on. The face of London was -now indeed strangely altered: I mean the whole mass of buildings, city, liberties, suburbs, Westminster, Southwark, and al... ...creature, and none durst come near to comfort them. Many a robbery, many a murder, was then confessed aloud, and nobody surviving to record the accoun... ...d saying, ‘I have been a thief, ‘I have been an adulterer’, ‘I have been a murderer’, and the like, and none durst stop to make the least inquiry into... ...rowing themselves out at their windows, shooting themselves., &c.; mothers murdering their own chil- dren in their lunacy, some dying of mere grief as... ... person left, and perhaps that one lying sick, that they have broke in and murdered that body , and immediately thrown them out into the dead-cart! An... ...o they have gone scarce cold to the grave. I cannot say but that some such murders were committed, and I think two were sent to prison for it, but die... ...aniel Defoe and 50,000 more would have sickened; for, in a word, the whole mass of people began to sicken, and it looked as if none would escape. But ...

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...ngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then procee...

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...ields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a f... ...- sionary in dealing with a Muhammadan should be, not to attack Islam as a mass of error, but to shew that it contains fragments of disjointed truth–t... ...at of the powers of na- ture and genii with Him, in the abolition of child murder, in the extinction of manifold superstitious usages, in the re- duct... ...or the importation of numerous articles of luxury and use. That an immense mass of fable and silly legend has been built up upon the basis of the Kora... ...that Hell which ye called a lie:– Begone to the shadows that lie in triple masses; “But not against the flame shall they shade or help you:”– The spar... ...r solstices. 3 Lit. he hath set at large, poured forth over the earth the masses of fresh and salt water which are in contact at the mouths of rivers... ...is verse appears to be a stud- ied simplification of Ex. iv. 10-13. 5 The murder of the Egyptian. See Geiger, 159. 6 Lit. and thou hast done thy dee... ... Numb. xix.; Deut. xxii. 1-9. The cow was to be sacrificed in order that a murderer might be discovered 431 The Koran through the miracle to be wroug... ...mosque the copy of the Koran which the Caliph Othman had in his hands when murdered, and that the marks of his blood were still visible at the words o...

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...oices gurgling with emotion. And you who read! you unconvicted Convict—you murderer, though haply you have slain no one— you Felon in posse if not in ... ...or friend Murat repeatedly mistake a fork for a toothpick, and the gallant Massena devour pease by means of his knife, in a way more innocent than gra... ...ank back at the words, and fell from his charger to the ground, a lifeless mass of steel. II LIKE MANY ANOTHER fabric of feudal war and splendor, the ... ...ich the magnificent edifice stood, can scarcely trace, among the shattered masses of ivy-covered masonry which lie among the lonely crags, even the sk... ...are shopkeepers, gorged with roast beef and treason. I will go and see the murderers of the Hirish, the pisoners of the Chynese, the villians who put ... ...itted bribery and perjury, or that a littery man has committed perjury and murder, or that a Duke has stabbed his wife in fifty places, or some story ... ...s your works; any- thing bearing the name of Snooks is eagerly read by the masses; and though Messrs. Hookey, of Holywell Street, pay you hand- somely... ... this gentleman. ‘Help, landlord!’ I loudly exclaimed, adding, I believe, ‘murder,’ and other ex- clamations of alarm. In vain I appealed to the crowd... ... the ground like whirl- winds; the two knights, two flashing perpendicular masses of steel, rapidly converged; the two lances met upon the two shields...

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... your neighbour as yourself, but he can tell more or less whether you have murdered, or stolen, or committed adultery, or held up your hand and testif... ...and unmoved among changes and storm. Mankind, in the sense of the creeping mass that is born and eats, that generates and dies, is but the aggregate o... ...or example, to think myself a mon- ster no longer; and instead I think the mass of people are merely speaking in their sleep. 30 Robert Louis Stevens... ...l this power of ser- vice he should not prove unserviceable, and that this mass of treasure should return in benefits upon the race. If he had twenty,... ...re confined to the shire of Mid-Lothian, pursued, captured, plundered, and murdered the miserable fugitives who fell in their way. One strange story h... ...for a thousand reasons of inchoate tendency, conflicting report, and sheer mass and multiplicity of experience; but chiefly, perhaps, by reason of an ... ...rible in- tensity of the night-scene in Irene, or for any such passages of massive and memorable writing as appeared, here and there, in the earlier w... ...range and horrible on Salvini’s lips– ‘Bring forth men-children only!’ The murder scene, as was to be expected, pleased the au- dience best. Macbeth’s... ...lood in his utterance. Never for a moment, even in the very article of the murder, does he possess his own soul. He is a man on wires. From first to l...

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...menacing blackness, and begin- ning to form themselves into a single solid mass. From time to time distant thunder could be heard—a cir- cumstance whi... ...g from child- hood to adolescence—are addicted to incendiarism, or even to murder. As I look back upon my childhood, and particu- larly upon the mood ... ...id Papa compassionately, as he stooped over me. “He is such a bully! He is murdering me! I shall die! No- body loves me at all!” I gasped almost inaud... ...llect to take the same course of develop- ment in the individual as in the mass, as also that the thoughts which serve as a basis for philosophical th...

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...as in England; the roofs are steeper-pitched; even a hill farm will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English houses, in comparison... ...st deeds. Thus novels begin to touch not the fine dilettanti but the gross mass of mankind, when they leave off to speak of parlours and shades of man... ...artist can make all things live. It was through him the simple strategy of massing sheep upon a snowy evening, with its attendant scampering of earnes... ...friend in the attire of a buccaneer, and decreeing armies to manoeuvre, or murder to be done, on the play- ground of their youth. But the memories are... ...p a large sur- face of life, rather than dig mines into geological strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, quotation, historic... ...esence; he commands a larger atmosphere, gives the impression of a grosser mass of char- acter than most men. It has been said of him that his pres- e... ... story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apa... ...ents. T o deal with strong and deadly elements, banditti, pirates, war and murder, is to conjure with great names, and, in the event of failure, to do...

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...o are no longer with us After the tree is decorated we dress ourselves for mass. At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to att... .... At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to attend mass. When mass is ended we go home, and sing Christmas carols. My grandmot... ... as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, which show teenagers being murdered, are being viewed by millions all over the country, especially by ... ...millions all over the country, especially by the teenagers who find joy in murder. This also puts blame on American society because we are the ones wh... ...move. It stands on its hind legs and reaches more than six feet high. This massive creature has to weigh at least four hundred pounds. This is happeni...

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...nly added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction that buries the reformer *Gaudeamus: Carmina V agorum S... ...flection that it was the price we have to pay for cochineal. And with that murder- ous parody, logical optimism and the praises of the best of possibl... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax.... ...ood neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, ... ...ed, if ten men whom I could name – ay, if one honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this ... ...ouis Stevenson at games of hazard on the one hand, and on the other of the murder of one Thevenin Pensete in a house by the Cem- etery of St. John. If... ...er Guillaume Coiffier was beguiled by an accomplice to St. Mathurin to say mass; and during his absence, his chamber was entered and five or six hundr... ...; and she died about a year after the 147 Familiar Studies of Men & Books murder, of grief and indignation, unrequited love and un- satisfied resentm... ...ar to that of Shakspeare’s Hamlet. The times were out of joint; here was a murdered father to avenge on a powerful murderer; and here, in both cases, ...

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...in 1775 he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival ... ...sider’d, with my master Tryon, the taking every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had, or ever could do us any injury that might... ... of my writing, on the dispute then going on between Governor Burnet and the Massachu setts Assembly, struck the principal people, occasioned the pap... ...rable employs it conferred upon him; and to the joint influence of the whole mass of the virtues, even in the imperfect state he was able to acquire t... ...nor Morris. War being in a manner commenced with France, the gov ernment of Massachusetts Bay projected an attack upon Crown Point, and sent Mr. Quin... ...e. The Indians had burned Gnadenhut, a village settled by the Moravians, and massa cred the inhabitants; but the place was thought a good situ ation...