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...r the T urk’s-head ad- venture, she never slept without my Bible under her pillow. If by broad daylight she would have renounced the Avatar theory, I ... ...lock last night, with Captain Martindale not coming home. And you with the pillow all awry, and that bit of a shawl over you! Lie you down, and I’ll s... ...ice faltered, broke down, and he was obliged to press his face down on the pillows to stifle his sobs. Violet was roused to such a degree of bewildere... ...r, pallid features looking as if it was cut out in ivory against the white pillows. She welcomed him with a pleased smile; but he started back, and fl... ...as soon be nursed by a monkey as by me. There he lies on a perfect bank of pillows, coughs whenever you speak to him, and only wants to get rid of eve... ... key too audible for such a party. Presently, ‘He has got her to the Royal Academy. She has gone forthwith to the Prae-Raffaelites. Oh! she is walking... ...s. ‘P .S.—He will come to-morrow to take us to a private view of the Royal Academy, before the pictures are removed.’ The same post carried a letter f...

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...morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two ... ...e interior of which species of marquee was a featherbed, on which were two pillows, on which were two round red faces, one in a laced nightcap, and on... ... city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s academy upon what are called “mutual principles”— that is to say, the expen... ...ow with her cushion—or else she would have Becky’s arm and Rawdon with the pillow. “W e must sit together,” she said. “W e’re the only three Christian... ...st all the gentle pains and passions which were tossing upon that innocent pillow, why should he not de- clare himself to be Rebecca’s confidante too,... ...ed friend and benefactress. Tell her, ere I went, I shed tears on her dear pillow—that pillow that I have so often soothed in sickness—that I long aga... ... Y ou would scarcely have recognised the beaming little face upon Amelia’s pillow that night as the one that was laid there the night before, so wan, ... ...l, who had been so hysterically affected when Amelia left Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-...

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...he ditch. The cart was backed to the margin, the body slung off the platform and dumped into the grave with an irreverent roughness. A sharpened stake... ...a doubtful nature; even Romaine had drawn of him no very amiable portrait; and as I was ushered into the room, it was a critical eye that I cast on my... ...as very deliberate and courteous, but scarce louder than a sigh. ‘I bid you welcome, Monsieur Le Vicomte Anne,’ said he, looking at me hard with his p... ...d the service of France; and have since then carried arms in such a manner as not to disgrace my family.’ ‘You narrate well; vous aves la voix chaude,... ...t a wicked, piggish donkey of a girl I have made of myself, to be sure! And there is no hope! O, Mr.—’ And at that she paused and asked my name. I am ...

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...lory shine around thy bed; and may the gates of plenty, honour, and happiness be ever open to thee. May no sorrow distress thy days; may no grief dist... ...iled up and turned away, as though it had turned its back on this world for ever; the uninter- ested face at once lead-coloured and yellow, looking pa... ... many such places as most travellers in my line, and I never saw one such, better kept. Among the bedridden there was great patience, great reli- ance... ...patient had died but yesterday. That bed was a hope- less one, because its occupant was sinking fast, and could only be roused to turn the poor pinche... ...he most to tell it, but because they happened to be in a state admitting of their safe removal. Fourthly, to say whether the coroner and jury could ha... ...ere the boy Horatio Nelson got out of bed to steal the pears: not because he wanted any, but because every other boy was afraid: yet I have sev- eral ...

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...ht of his love made her happy. She slept better with the picture under her pillow, and how many many times did she kiss it and weep and pray over it! ... ...f the invalid. Amelia bore her harshness quite gently; smoothed the uneasy pillow; was always ready with a soft answer to the watchful, querulous voic... ...d soft shoulder on which to lean and a gentle hand to soothe our gouty old pillows. Old Sedley grew very fond of his daughter after his wife’s death, ... ...and had com- menced one of those lightly troubled slumbers which visit the pillow of old age. The old man clung to his daughter during this sickness. ... ...residents there, by weeping when Master Alderney came from Dr. Swishtail’s academy to pass his holi- days with his mother. “He and her Rawdon were of ...

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...pilot house; and then he galloped in, at the head of his troops. Old General Pillow, with his white hair, mounted on a white horse, sailed in, too, le... ...ighead’s Point, and glided unchallenged by what was once the formidable Fort Pillow, memorable because of the mas sacre perpetrated there during the ... ...ut we must bunch Anglo Saxon history together to find the fellow to the Fort Pillow tragedy; and doubtless even then we must travel back to the days a... ...g man, but he did not look it. He was abed, and had his head propped high on pillows; his face was wasted and colorless, his deep sunken eyes were shu... ...e is nothing strikingly remarkable about it; but one can say of it as of the Academy of Music in New York, that if a broom or a shovel has ever been u... ... the fact. It is curious that cabbages and hay and things do not grow in the Academy of Music; but no doubt it is on account of the interruption of th...

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...d low degree, Italian models and Russian artists. He would not hear of the Academy, and recognised no one as a teacher. He was possessed of unmistakea... ... dropped them, fell on her knees beside her bed, pressed her face into the pillow, and, in spite of all her efforts not to yield to the passion overwh... ...an hour she lay motionless; the tears flowed through her fingers on to the pillow. Suddenly she raised herself and sat up, something strange was passi... ...metimes broken by a short groan, and the uneasy tossing of his head on the pillow… . Strange fancies came over Bersenyev. He found himself in the room... .... After waiting a little, he went up to the bed. Insarov’s head lay on the pillow helpless as before; his eyes were closed. ‘Is he delirious?’ whisper... ...d- denly she was conscious of intense weariness, laid her head down on the pillow, whispered ‘poor Andrei Petrovitch!’ and at once fell asleep with we... ...as afraid of the chill of the churches for Insarov; but she remembered the academy delle Belle Arti, and told the gondolier to go towards it. They qui... ... of the elder Cima da 146 On the Eve Conegliano. As they were leaving the academy, they took another look at the Englishmen behind them—with their lo... ... box close to the stage; the mirthful mood which had come upon them in the academy delle Belle Arti had not yet passed off. When the father of the unh...

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...s eyes? Razumov had a morbidly vivid vision of Haldin on his bed—the white pillow hollowed by the head, the legs in long boots, the upturned feet. And... ...rm chin, the white forehead and the topknot of fair hair against the white pillow. There he was, lying flat on his back. Razumov thought suddenly, “I ... ...ed down at the bed on which he had not slept that night. The hollow in the pillow made by the weight of Haldin’s head was very noticeable. 50 Under W... ...ike a retriever puppy, his elated voice and great gestures filled the bare academy corridors with the joy of thoughtless animal life, provoking indulg...

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... In 1691 I was studying my philosophy and beginning to learn to ride at an academy at Rochefort, getting mightily tired of masters and books, and anxi... ...e ladies of the Princess, and the Duc de Beauvilliers, who remained at the pillow by the side of his pupil, with the Duchesse de Lude on the other sid... ...ry. The Abbes Tallemant, Toureil, and Dacier, three learned members of the Academy, were charged with the explanation to be placed opposite each of th... ...non entered into her sorrow, and went every day to bear her company at the pillow of Courcillon. Madame d’Heudicourt, another intimate friend of Madam... ...10 Saint-Simon his own illness as long as he could, so as not to leave the pillow of his Dauphine. Now the fever he had was too strong to be dissimula... ...d’Orleans alone in 607 Saint-Simon the room, seated in an armchair at her pillow. Scarcely had I sat down than Madame la Duchesse began to talk of so... ...nduced Fagon to swaddle him, so to say, every evening in a heap of feather pillows, which made him sweat all night to such an extent that it was neces...

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...ssistance. We lay upon the floor, with a bundle of cursed law papers for a pillow, but with no other covering than a sort of large horseman’s cloak; a... ...y bed-feet, and stared in upon me through the curtains; but watching by my pillow, or defrauding herself of sleep to bear me company through the heavy... ...ed in wielding logic with a scholastic adroitness, might take up the whole academy of modern economists, and throttle them between heaven and earth wi...

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...ul than useful? If yes, in what way can the harm be warded off.” The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at Metz, to which Minoret belonged, must posse... ... At this first visit the old captain, formerly a professor at the Military Academy, won the doctor’s heart, who returned the call with alacrity. Mon- ... ...too had taken to going to bed early, in spite of the thorns that beset his pillow. It was therefore a great piece of good fortune for him (as well as ... ...ining of her friend Jordy. The captain, formerly a professor in a military academy, having a taste for grammar and for the differences among European ... ...h him in Paris.’ She has blown out the light—her head is 66 Ursula on the pillow—she turns to sleep! Ah! she is off! How pretty she looks in her litt... ... the doctor, taking her again on his knee. “When you laid your head on the pillow and went to sleep did you think to yourself, ‘That dear godfather; I...

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...ning, gave audience in bed, for when a handsome head was discovered on the pillow no one could have imagined what belonged to it. This circumstance ga... ...nly of going to Paris, not doubt- ing that on presenting my project to the Academy, it would be adopted with rapture. I had brought some money from Ly... ...elieve favorite, of the Princess of Carignan; M. de Boze, Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions, and keeper of the medals of the king’s cabinet; an... ..., his friend, who came to dine with him every Friday, the day on which the Academy of Sciences met. He mentioned to him my project, and the desire I h... ...ioned to him my project, and the desire I had of having it examined by the academy. M. de Reaumur consented to make the pro- 266 The Confessions posa... ...mur, and on the same day, August 22d, 1742, I had the honor to read to the academy the memoir I had prepared for that purpose. Although this illustrio... ...r, into sheets; my robe de chambre into a counterpane; and my cloak into a pillow. I made myself a seat with one of my trunks laid flat, and a table w... ...m which he has never perfectly recov- ered: I did not quit the side of his pillow until he was so far restored as to have no further need of my assist...

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...escott Wormeley Dedication To Monsieur J. B. Nacquart, Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine. Dear Doctor—Here is one of the most carefully hewn sto... ... in school were continued under another form during my stay at the Lepitre Academy. My father gave me no money; I was to be fed, clothed, and stuffed ... ...er persisted in the system which had sent me to school without food, to an academy without pocket-money, and had driven me into debt to Doisy. Very li... ...wers equally re- vered. You have sucked the milk of the Revolution in your academy and your political ideas may be influenced by it; but as you advanc... ... whispered, “Unhappy man!—ah! if you did but know—” She fell back upon the pillow. The remembrance of her past sufferings, joined to the present shock... ...s though he were breeding an illness, she told me of her nights beside his pillow. For three months, she said, she had lived wholly within herself, in...

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...spinal marrow out of dogs with whalebone.” “And he is made a member of the Academy of Sciences for this?” “No; of the French Academy.” * Louis David, ... ...us French painter. 102 The Count of Monte Cristo “But what has the French Academy to do with all this?” “I was going to tell you. It seems” — “That h... ... marchioness drained the glass at a single draught, and then turned on her pillow, repeating, — “The notary, the notary!” M. de Villefort left the roo... ...ng was announced in a very low tone, Madame de Saint- Meran arose from her pillow. “The notary!” she exclaimed, “let him come in.” The notary, who was... ... life, for it is yours she aims at; and I can picture her approaching your pillow with her hypocritical smiles and her sweet exhortations. Woe to you,... ... work. At length she rallied, drew aside the curtain, and leaning over the pillow gazed intently on Valentine. The young girl no longer breathed, no b... ...red and sleepy; he therefore went to bed, placing his pocketbook under his pillow. Peppino had a little spare time, so he had a game of mora with the ...

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...go. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up b... ...t of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. CHAPTER 15 Chowder I T WA S QUITE... ... sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on it? A h... ...Lakeman’s monkey jacket, as he was tucking the coat into his hammock for a pillow. Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent helm—nigh to the m... ...of Banks and Solander, Cooke’s naturalists, we find a Danish member of the Academy of Sci- ences setting down certain Iceland Whales (reydan-siskur, o... ... iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one. And thus the first man of the Pequo...

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... Chamberlain, and the King is here (no doubt incognito), and all the Royal Academy, and Sandow, and Mr. Arnold White. But these famous names do not ap... ...inds play freely about possibilities that would have struck the men of the Academy as outrageous extravagance, and it is in regard to politico-social ... ...ound it. Beside the bed, and to be lit at night by a handy switch over the pillow, is a little clock, its face flush with the wall. The room has no co...

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... corrected by Aristotle, called the casket copy, with his dagger under his pillow, declaring that he esteemed it a perfect portable treasure of all mi... ... daughter in marriage. When he had perused the letter, he put it under his pillow, without showing it so much as to any of his most intimate friends, ... ...outh, as to be first Plato’s, and after- wards Xenocrates’s scholar in the Academy, and to have de- voted himself from the first to the pursuit of the... ...wn; and an old acquaintance of his, who had been his fellow-student in the Academy, Leon, a man of high renown for virtue among the Byzantines, having... ...his innovations in doctrine. For Antiochus had now fallen off from the New Academy, as they call it, and forsaken the sect of Carneades, whether that ... ...Stoics. But Cicero rather affected and adhered to the doctrines of the New Academy; and purposed with himself, if he should be disappointed of any emp... ...te desti- tute of any right to call himself one of the philosophers of the Academy. Caesar, out of disgust at his character, refused all attention to ...

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...cience and Art, The University Correspondent, Na- ture, The Athenaeum, The Academy, and The Author. Smithers remarked the appearance of a note-book, t... ...she did not seem to breathe. He saw that her eyelashes were still wet, the pillow by her cheek was wet. Her white, tear-stained face hurt him…. She wa...

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... but the sentiment is destroyed by its having been six months in the Royal Academy, number 16,136, and by seeing it down among the excursions in the N... ...d be done with it, and fairly face the matter, as I can only do in a walk. Pillow counsel is feverish and tumultuous; one is hardly master of oneself.... ...r seemed to cease. She defended herself by aver- ring that Miss Ponsonby’s pillow was soaked every morning; but if Mary’s heavy eyelids corroborated h...

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...hree forward bounds, which would have done him great credit in a gymnastic academy, but became his character of hermit so indifferently that the Scott... ..., and not in- sensible to the power of praise, he reclined his head on the pillow with a more deliberate attempt to repose than he had yet exhibited. ...