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...ssion of his homage, having so often been made to bow and bend his knee at murderous rites. In a service of religion he may be timid. Let us try him, ... ...g of horses’ heads from the deep gloom of the shady lane; the next was the mass of white pillows against which the dying patient was reclining. The he... ...by one that had it in his choice to have called me a coward, a thief, or a murderer, struck me as a most pardonable offence; and as to boots, that res... ... ous demoniac must fancy himself justified in committing seven times seven murders upon me, if he should have it in his power. But, thank Heaven, if j... ...assandra sur- veys the regal abode in Mycenae, destined to be the scene of murders so memorable through the long traditions of the Grecian stage, murd... ...ard his pres- ence in the field. This carelessness threw them into a dense mass, upon which my brother’s rapid eye saw instantly the opportunity offer... ... discharge, while his mouth was cov- 95 Autobiographic Sketches ered with masses of white foam. He looked most earnestly at myself and the group beyo... ...oming battle as of a coming flight; to a marriage festival as much as to a massacre; agitation is the nearest En- glish word. This trepidation increas... ...a “lock,” that is, a line of carriages of every description inex- tricably massed, and obstructing each other, far as the eye could stretch; and then,...

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...de Guise. The young Prince of Joinville, son of that Duke of Guise who was murdered by the order of Henry II. at Blois, was, after the death of his fa... ...o understand in what relation these very mighty and effectually de- tached masses of masonry stood to each other, but in 14 A Little Tour in France t... ...e structure emerges from a bed of light verdure, which has been allowed to mass itself there, and which contributes to the springing look of the walls... ...ight is the wing erected by Francis 23 Henry James I., the reverse of the mass of building which you see on approaching the castle. This exquisite, t... ... 24 A Little Tour in France their identity. Every spot connected with the murder of the Duke of Guise is pointed out by a small, shrill boy, who take... ... episode was ever more perfect—looked at as a dramatic occurrence—than the murder of the Duke of Guise? The insolent prosperity of the victim; the wea... ...e from the avenue and find yourself at the foot of an enormous fan- tastic mass. Chambord has a strange mixture of society and solitude. A little vill... ...e la Saussaye, as a souvenir de premieres amours! It is cer- tainly a very massive memento; and if these tender pas- sages were proportionate to the b... ...echal de Retz, who in the fifteenth century was executed at Nantes for the murder of a couple of hundred young children, sacrificed in abomi- nable ri...

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...iginal picture, but when you peer closely you find not the unique form and masses of the original, but a multitude of little rectangles, uniform in sh... ...THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE TIVE TIVE TIVE TIVE Such it seems to me are the chief masses of the complex of motives in us, the group of sense, the group of pr... ...se. It is the organization, in 58 First and Last Things regard to a great mass of common and fundamental interests that have hitherto been dispersedl... ...d number of property owners and the expropriation of the great proletarian mass of mankind, a concentration which is after all no more than a tendency... ... basis of mutual helpfulness, temperance and toleration. It sees the great masses of hu- 63 H. G . Wells manity rising out of base and immediate anxi... ...honour of a woman seems an adequate excuse for nearly any offence short of murder; the preservation that is to say of the appearance of something that... ...and Last Things they are offences, on an altogether different footing from murder, or exacting usury, or the sweating of children, or cruelty, or tran...

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... his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before. ‘He’ll murder me!’ blubbered Noah. ‘Charlotte! missis! Here’s the new boy a murder... ... her head and shoulders. ‘Oh! Charlotte, what a mercy we have not all been murdered in our beds!’ ‘ Ah! mercy indeed, ma’am,’ was the reply. I only ho... ...er not to have any more of these dreadful crea tures, that are born to be murderers and robbers from their very cradle. Poor Noah! He was all but kil... ...o. Not run away, sir, but he’s turned wicious,’ replied Noah. ‘He tried to murder me, sir; and then he tried to murder Charlotte; and then missis. Oh!... ...ogether; but nothing was to be descried from it but a confused and crowded mass of housetops, blackened chimneys, and gable ends. Sometimes, indeed, ... ...eves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking dogs, the bellow ing and plung... ...s legs thrown over one of the arms: an open clasp knife in one hand, and a mass of buttered bread in the other. Close beside him stood Charlotte, open... ...ds, which had been threatening all day, spread out in a dense and sluggish mass of vapour, already yielded large drops of rain, and seemed to presage ... ...e stained store houses on either side, rose heavy and dull from the dense mass of roofs and gables, and frowned sternly upon water too black to refle...

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...e. Not only was the visit to Appin’s agent, in the midst of the cry about the Appin murder, dangerous in itself, but it was highly incon- sistent with... ...“for the man’s my friend. I can only wish he had been better guided. And an accused murderer, that he is too, for his misfortune; but wrongfully accus... ... of my acquaintance with Alan, of the accident that brought me present at the Appin murder, and the various passages of our escape among the heather, ... ...go Campbell or the sheriff’s officer, and be recognised, and dragged into the Appin murder by the heels; and, no doubt, in case I could manage my decl... ...g sticks,” said I. “Perhaps that would be the best,” said he. “Well, it’s the Appin murder,” said I. He held up both his hands. “Sirs! sirs!” cried he... ... are Highlanders. But we are Highlanders civilised, and it is not so with the great mass of our clans and families. They have still savage virtues and... ...d with a deep courtesy. “And I beg to remind you of an old musty saw, that meat and mass never hindered man. The mass I cannot af- ford you, for we ar...

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... against the Prince, retired to the Continent, where they sac- rilegiously murdered Henry, son of the King of the Romans— a crime so much abhorred in ... ...picturing the arrival of the English after the death of St. Louis, and the murder of Henry of Almayne is related in all crusading histories; but for S... ... priest of Alton, that my true-hearted loving Adam may have fit burial and masses.” “I tell thee, boy, he is in no more need of a burial than th ou or... ...ce its exceeding severity of expression. “You know the meed of robbery and murder?” “A halter and a bough,” said Adam readily. “Well and good; but I t... ...f habit; he hated himself for not having at once chal- lenged his father’s murderer; so as, if he could not do more, to have died by his hand; and he ... ...ill in arms. In pursuance of this resolution, he appeared at the morn- ing mass and meal still grave and silent, and especially avoid- ing young Hamly... ... east, seated upon her hills, stood the crowned and battlemented city, the massive White T ower rising above the fortifications. The autumn brilliance... ...e stout rowers in the royal colours of red and gold. “Young gentlemen, the Mass must be ended; it were better to draw to the stairs, than to talk of y... ...all the small portion of the face that was visible through the over- grown masses of hair and beard, so plentifully sprinkled with white, that it woul...

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...irds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enor- mous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago... ...thrown it into the river.” “Impossible!” cried Madame Danglars: “a man may murder an- other out of revenge, but he would not deliberately drown a chil... ...oomy thoughts and bitter recollections. Then, instead of plunging into the mass of documents piled before him, he opened the drawer of his desk. touch... ...at every window, as is custom- ary on days of ceremony, he saw only a gray mass, which was veiled also by a cloud, which at that moment obscured the m... ...Franz stopped. “February 5th, 1815!” said he; “it is the day my father was murdered.” Valentine and Villefort were dumb; the eye of the old man alone ... ..., my father!” said Franz, interrupting himself. “I understand now why they murdered him.” Valentine could not help casting one glance towards the youn... ...her of the actors in this terrible scene should be accused of premeditated murder or of infringement of the laws of honor. “`Signed, Beaurepaire, Desc... ...e same ques- tion which Charles IX. put to Catherine de Medicis, after the massa- cre of Saint Bartholomew, ‘How have I played my little part?’” “To w... .... “From where we stood I could see in the middle of the lake a large blank mass; it was the kiosk to which we were going. This kiosk appeared to me to...

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...throbbed. Deliberation was, undoubtedly, already crime. Fascinated by that mass of gold he intoxicated him- self morally by murderous arguments. He as... ...crime. Fascinated by that mass of gold he intoxicated him- self morally by murderous arguments. He asked himself if that poor German had any need to l... ...boatmen, and the servant of the Red Inn. The surgical instrument which the murderer had used— [Here Monsieur Taillefer coughed, drew out his handker- ... ...aying with the stopper of the decanter.] The surgical instrument which the murderer had used was on the table with the case containing the rest of the... ... the inn by the news of the crime, and also perhaps by a desire to see the murderer. The step of the sentries placed beneath the win- dows of the publ... ...rman. A true image of my hapless country. I felt he was a victim and not a murderer. At the moment when he passed beneath my window he chanced to cast... ...stic, but I can find nothing there to solve my doubts. Shall I found pious masses for the repose of the souls of Prosper Magnan, Wahlenfer, and Taille...

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... The first of my troubles, indeed, was the costume we were obliged to wear. There is a hor- rible practice in England to trick out in ridiculous unifo... ...ed his way in. In the midst was the big naked body, soiled with blood. Some one had covered him with his blanket; but as he lay there in agony, he had... ...man. To them your evi- dence was a leash of lies, which they yawned to hear you telling. Now, I was asking myself, how far will a gentle- man go? Not ... ..., wisely invested. He lives, indeed, like a prince. And of what use is it to him? He has lost all that was worth living for—his family, his coun- try;... ...ance on this—this incredible scene. Who was the man?’ ‘A suicide,’ said he. ‘Ay, he was a bad one, was Johnnie Green.’ It appeared this was a wretch w... ...imental manner, declared my love and received the as- surance of its return. By means of this exercise my resolu- tion daily grew stronger, until at l... ...et. He was utterly unmanned, or it might have gone hard with me yet; and I considered him hesitating, as, indeed, there was cause. The man was a doubl... ...ere could I be safer? they argued; and what was to be- 135 Stevenson come of them without the darling of the prison? Well, it was soon shown how safe... ...en I transferred my eyes to my enemy. He had his hat on, a little on one side: it was a very tall hat, raked extremely, and had a narrow curling brim....

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...e natives dwell. Seen from the sea, the prospect is magnificent. It is one mass of shaded tints of green, from beach to mountain top; endlessly divers... ...ted, running right in among them. “It’s the Mowree, zur; they are going to murder him, zur,” here sobbed poor Rope Yarn, crawling close up to him. “Av... ...n the doctor and oth- ers tried to save him: the men listened to nothing. “Murder and mutiny, by the salt sea!” shouted the mate; and dashing his arms... ... place at the wheel. In- deed, no one but Jermin could have prevented this murder. 81 Melville CHAPTER XXV. JERMIN ENCOUNTERS AN OLD SHIPMATE DURING ... ...ar- rel on account of a woman, and the rest taking his part, they were all massacred but Viner, who, at the time, was in an adjoining village. After s... ...which we Yankees were the first to introduce. In action these are the most murderous vessels ever launched. The model of the Reine Blanche has all tha... ...orship there. Such queer ideas as they entertained of the hated strangers. Masses and chants were nothing more than evil spells. As for the priests th... ...able to the rest of us; especially as we all turned Catholics, and went to mass every morning, much to Captain Bob’s consternation. Upon finding it ou... ... of streams flashing through, and narrow pathways fairly tunnelled through masses of foliage. All alone, in this wild place, was the abode of the plan...

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...ESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE, This ... ...r him; in the teeth of unequal chances, he must prove himself equal to the mass of those who oppress him—therefore, absolutely supe- rior to his appar... ... our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, and hardly less... ...before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Mr. Douglass presents a mass of thought, which, without any showy display of logic on his part, req... ...s; where it can be indecent with- out shame, cruel without shuddering, and murderous with- out apprehension or fear of exposure. Just such a secluded,... ...S—THE MARKED INDIVIDUALITY OF AUSTIN GORE—HIS SENSE OF DUTY—HOW HE WHIPPED—MURDER OF POOR DENBY—HOW IT OCCURRED—SENSATION—HOW GORE MADE PEACE WITH COL... ...OR DENBY—HOW IT OCCURRED—SENSATION—HOW GORE MADE PEACE WITH COL. LLOYD—THE MURDER UN- PUNISHED—ANOTHER DREADFUL MURDER NARRATED—NO LA WS FOR THE PROTE... ...of marked individuality, even while they bear a general resemblance to the mass. Mr. Gore was one of those, to whom a general characterization would d... ... place, as a whole, wore a dull, slovenly, enterprise-forsaken aspect. The mass of the buildings were wood; they had never en- joyed the artificial ad...

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...see the gallows erected; they would serve for the hanging of those detestable judges who purchased fa- vor at court at the price of the people’s miser... ...e small-pox, to Notre Dame. He took the opportu- nity of calling out his guard, the Swiss troops and the mus- keteers, and he had planted them round t... ... going on famously. I know the French as well as if I had made them myself. They sing—let them pay the piper. During the Ligue, about which Guitant wa... ... soul of every cabal, who pre- tends to lead the brave people who are weak enough to believe in the honor of a prince of the blood—not the prince near... ... ran up the steps, en- tered the church, and addressing a verger who was sweep- ing the chapel, asked him if he knew Monsieur Bazin. “Monsieur Bazin, ... ...d joined his throat; his eyes were swelled up with the puffi- ness of his cheeks; his hair, cut straight in holy guise, cov- ered his forehead as far ... ...d. Halloo! Planchet! here! saddle our horses, take your carbine.” “Whom are we going to attack, sir?” “No one; a mere matter of precaution,” answered ... ... in a second he was on his feet again. “Nothing broken?” asked De Guiche. 248 Twenty Years After “Faith, no, thank Heaven!” replied Raoul; “but what ... ... piercing than the first, but followed by prolonged groaning, was heard. The three listeners looked at one another in alarm. “We must see what it is,”...

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...rding to the Alexandrian standard, for they are simple and obvious. In the mass of material from which he had to choose the difficulty was to know wha... ...nd unflinching he passed beneath the earth, overwhelmed by the downrush of massy pines. (ll. 65 68) There came too Titaresian Mopsus, whom above all ... ... the same time, that they might thereafter pay no retribution for the grim murder. And of all the women, Hypsipyle alone spared her aged father Thoas,... ...and stay not outside our city.” (ll. 834 835) She spoke, glozing over the murder that had been wrought upon the men; and Jason addressed her in answe... ...ressed them with reproachful words: (ll. 865 874) “Wretched men, does the murder of kin dred keep us from our native land? Or is it in want of marri... ... but con stantly clash against one another to one point, and above a huge mass of salt water rises in a crest, boiling up, and loudly dashes upon the... ... together and crashed as they met face to face. And the foam leapt up in a mass like a cloud; awful was the thunder of the sea; and all round them the... ...s was quick to ease the ship as she laboured with the oars; and in all its mass the wave rolled away beneath the keel, and at the stern it raised Argo... ...with answering cry. And quickly Peleus with his hunting spear aimed at the murderous boar as he fled back into the fen; and again he turned and charge...

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...plexion, set a spark of fire in those dreamy eyes, throw a scarf about the massive bosom, see the long dress, white, embroidered with flowers, imagine... ...my place in the event of God’s taking me to Himself. I shall have finished mass at nine o’clock; you have three-quarters of an hour before you. Be rea... ...th under our feet a sound which enables us to guess whether they are dense masses of stone or a void; so intense egoism, though hidden under the flowe... ...tesman was religious, without ostentation; he always attended the earliest mass at Saint- Paul’s for pious workmen and servants. Not one of his friend... ...eness of her skin; which enables me almost to feel, to play with the black masses of her curl- ing hair?—Could you see me when I leap with hope—when I... ...to those of a consumptive patient, moods of wild hilarity, terrors as of a murderer who meets a sergeant of police. In short, my life is a continual p... ...no occasion to tell him of Honorine’s wishes.” “Does he suspect himself of murder?” said Mademoiselle des T ouches to the Baron de l’Hostal. “He suspe...

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... the human mind. From an imperfect recognition of that duality ensue great masses of misconception. That was the substance of “First and Last Things.”... ...trives spiteful turns for those who fail in their religious attentions. He murders Sabbath-breaking chil- dren, or disorganises the careful business s... ...Deity, perpetually “upset” by the little things people did, and contriving murder and vengeance. Now this God would be drowning everybody in the world... ... materialistic rule of life. And he writes: “In every civilised nation the mass of the people are inert and indifferent. Some even make a pretence of ... ...ss Am- bulance or take part in a public demonstration against the Armenian Massacres, or do any other rather nice-spirited exterior thing. This is wha... ... As the head grows clear the body will turn in the right direction. To the mass of men modern religion says, “This is the God it has always been in yo... ...rollable extravagance. Then the insane be- come “glorious,” or they become murderous, or they become suicidal. All these letter-writers in confinement...

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...s mignons to due punishment within the limits of a tale beginning with the Massacre of St. Bartholomew; but in 1868 the broad outlines of tragedy must... ... a canopy up to kneel at the High Altar, for the marriage blessing and the mass, they looked like a full-grown couple seen through a diminishing-glass... ...ext conveyed from lip to lip, and, as it were in a moment, the dense human mass had broken up and vanished, stealing through the numerous paths in the... ...never openly broken with the Gallic Church, Berenger had gone at once from mass at Leurre to the Combe Walwyn service. Therefore when he spent a Sunda... ...the Sunday he was at Leurre, he went, as a part of his old home-habits, to mass at the old round-arched church, where he and Eustacie had played each ... ...earest to the door, and one after another related horrible tales of blood, murder, and vengeance then, alas! Only too frequent occur- rences in their ... ...o believe 114 Yo n g e she had destroyed him. The stripped corpses of the murdered Huguenots of the palace had been laid in a line on the terrace, an... ...one of the choice companions of the latter, and after the night and day of murder now stood before his sister with scented hair and handkerchief—the l... ...olution to play out her father’s game, con- sign Eustacie to her husband’s murdered, and leave her to console herself with bridal splendours and a cho...

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...ken and uneven, its ceilings blackened by the hand of time, and heavy with massive beams. Over the doorway was an an cient porch, quaintly and grotes... ... anybody believed it real. But, that morning, Mr Reuben Haredale was found murdered in his bedchamber; and in his hand was a piece of the cord attache... ...the roof, which hung in his room and had been cut asunder, no doubt by the murderer, when he seized it. ‘That was the bell I heard. ‘A bureau was foun... ...thing; while the more serious spectacle of falling tiles and slates, or of masses of brick and mortar or fragments of stone coping rattling upon the p... ...could remember what the widow was, be fore her husband’s and his master’s murder, understood it well. They recollected how the change had come, and c... ... heads by scores, defied their mas ters, nay, even achieved some glorious murders in the streets, which privileges had gradually been wrested from th... ...lds his neighbours’ honours even in the sky; to the money hoarder, and the mass of worldly folk, the whole great universe above glit ters with sterli... ...nfluences by which he was surrounded. In the course of time, the Maypole’s massive chimneys rose upon his view: but he quickened not his pace one jot,... ...his fevered hand upon his shoul der, ‘and are the only men who regard the mass of people out of doors, or are regarded by them, we will uphold them t...

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...n our good chaplain, as I ween, Since our last siege we have not seen: The mass he might not sing or say, Upon one stinted meal a day; So safe he sat ... ... now the midnight draught of sleep, Where wine and spices richly steep, In massive bowl of silver deep, The page presents on knee. Lord Marmion dra... ...t the chapel doors unclose; Then after morning rites were done (A hasty mass from Friar John), And knight and squire had broke their fast On rich s... ...gin of the isle. 44 Marmion X. In Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ... ... 53 Sir Walter Scott XXII. Her comrade was a sordid soul, Such as does murder for a meed; Who, but of fear, knows no control, Because his conscien... ...o the sounding surge so near, A tempest there you scarce could hear, So massive were the walls. 55 Sir Walter Scott XXVI. At length, an effort sen... ... Ulysses meets Alcides’ wraith; AEneas, upon Thracia’s shore, The ghost of murdered Polydore; For omens, we in Livy cross, At every turn, locutus Bos....

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...image of the whole Enterprise had shaped itself, so to speak, into a solid mass. Cautiously yet cou- rageously, through the twopenny post, application... ...not I too a compact all- enclosing Skin, whiter or dingier? Am I a botched mass of tailors’ and cobblers’ shreds, then; or a tightly articu- lated, ho... ...be- ginning at Libra; in the inside of which sealed Bags lie miscellaneous masses of Sheets, and oftener Shreds and Snips, written in Professor Teufel... ...shed up from the weltering deep, and down from the simmering air, here one mass, there another, and cun- ningly cemented, while the elements boil bene... ... after utmost painful search and collation among these miscellaneous Paper-masses, is all the notice we can gather of Herr Teufelsdrockh’s genealogy. ... ...n Opera, in an all-too stupendous style; with music of cannon-volleys, and murder-shrieks of a world; his stage- lights are the fires of Conflagration... ...ure, and minded to make sport for himself, or perhaps profit, were it with murder, continues to advance; ever assailing me with his importunate train-...

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...s increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare. Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections; nor was there any ear in... ... have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarou... ...ainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow up the living mass which had slowly entered its bosom. The deepest sounds of the retiring... ...ss and generous-looking youth for my sentinel. Surely, Duncan, those cruel murders, those terrific scenes of torture, of which we read and hear so muc... ...ndle the rifle?” “Praised be God, I have never had occasion to meddle with murderous implements!” “Perhaps you understand the compass, and lay down th... ..., with Alice, into this cavern, where you, at least, will be safe from the murderous rifles of our enemies, and where you may bestow a care suited to ... ...ess of the defense was its chief merit, for no one thought of disturbing a mass of brush, which all of them believed, in that moment of hurry and conf... ...fferent auspices, and whose summit had so nearly proved the scene of their massacre. At the foot they found the Narragansetts browsing the herbage of ... ...aced eyes on you again trussed to the trees, and ready bound for an Indian massacre.” “Our rescue was the deed of Providence. It was nearly a miracle ...