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...d delights of the Carnival had so run in his head as to make him leave his pillow long before his usual hour. “Now, my excellent Signor Pastrini,” sai... ...e more such adventures, and I do not despair of seeing you a member of the Academy.” Doubtless Albert was about to discuss seriously his right to the ... ...ho has done nothing to de- serve it,” said Beauchamp; “that is the way the Academy mostly es- The Count of Monte Cristo 388 capes from the dilemma.” ...

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...t me, with the worst Latin scholar that was ever turned out of a classical academy. I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and ... ...er passed through Bertha’s frame, and she returned to her station near the pillow, tacitly implying that she would not leave the room. The eyelids wer... ... had already opened the artery in the long thin neck that lay rigid on the pillow, and I dismissed them, ordering them to remain at a distance till we...

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...Excerpt: In the days when New York?s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine populat...

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...of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on th... ...ed in the rarely used grate; but as Mrs. Hawkins bent over to “settle” her pillows she raised herself on her elbow to whisper: “Oh, Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs.... ... “Where’s the old red comfortable?” Evelina asked, as she sank down on the pillow. “The comfortable? Oh, it was so hot and heavy I never used it after... ...l and back—if I am back,” Evelina re- peated. She lifted her head from the pillow and began to talk with a sudden feverish volubility. “It began right... ...ars.” Evelina sank back, her face a sallow wedge in the white cleft of the pillow. Ann Eliza leaned over her, and for a long time they held each other... ...and went into the back room. She found Evelina propped upright against the pillows, a flush of agitation on her cheeks. Ann Eliza pulled up the shawl ...

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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-... ...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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...t too. Keep her off.” He relaxed his grasp, and sank back exhausted on the pillow. ‘I knew but too well what all this meant. If I could have entertain... ...as the same persecutor that had followed him before. He fell back upon his pillow and moaned aloud. A short period of oblivion, and he was wandering t... ...g bottle, while a fourth was busily engaged in patting and punch ing the pillows which were arranged for her support. On the opposite side sat a bal... ...ked like half a gigantic roll of flannel, elevated on a couple of inflated pillow cases. ‘You’ll find it much pleasanter, Sir,’ urged another stout ge... ...owd to ‘send a boy home, to ask whether he hadn’t left his voice under the pillow,’ begged to nominate a fit and proper person to repre sent them in ... ...e Den, ‘you know that when your picture was in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, last year, everybody inquired whether it was intended for you, or ...

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.... Many and many a time, in the day and in the night, with my head upon the pillow by her that my whispers might be plainer to her, I kissed her, thank... ...me, I suppose; it’s time I should take my craftier head to my more worldly pillow. Good night, my dears. God bless you!” He peeped in again, with a sm... ...Now, come hither,” says the housekeeper. “Hither, child, towards my Lady’s pillow. I am not sure that it is dark enough 94 Bleak House – Dickens yet,... ...ngling piano at last is silent, and the Harmonic friends rally round their pillows. Then there is rest around the lonely figure, now laid in its last ... ...0 Bleak House – Dickens proposed that she and I and Peepy should go to the academy and afterwards meet my guardian and Ada at Miss Flite’s, whose name... ... bending our steps towards Newman Street, which was very near. I found the academy established in a sufficiently dingy house at the corner of an archw... ... and all looking rakish in the daylight. Miss Jellyby informed me that the academy had been lent, last night, for a concert. We went upstairs—it had b... ...en (his mind wandering) he insisted on keeping his little hammer under the pillow and chipping at the countenances of the attendants. The ruling passi... ... are!” “I am engaged, Ma,” sobbed Caddy, “to young Mr. T urveydrop, at the academy; and old Mr. T urveydrop (who is a very gentlemanly man indeed) has...

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...he deuce! nobody hurt, then? all right!’ The squire had fallen back on his pillow and was relapsing to sleep. Sewis spoke impressively: ‘There’s a gen... ...practise, a school-match of an important character coming off with a rival academy; and it was only through fear of our school being beaten if she did... ...A FREE LIFE ON THE ROAD I WOKE VERY EARLY, though I had taken kindly to my pillow, as I found by my having an arm round my companion’s neck, and her f... ...at he wore a shirt-collar up to his eyebrows for concealment by day, and a pillow-case over his head at night, and his wife said she was a deceived un... ...l!’ the margravine interjected repeatedly. The princess was laid on raised pillows in her swingcot un- der an awning aft, and watched the sailors, the... ...together a great deal in attending on poor old Sewis, who would lie on his pillows recounting for hours my father’s midnight summons of the inhabitant...

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.... Many and many a time, in the day and in the night, with my head upon the pillow by her that my whispers might be plainer to her, I kissed her, thank... ...me, I suppose; it’s time I should take my craftier head to my more worldly pillow. Good night, my dears. God bless you!” He peeped in again, with a sm... ...Now, come hither,” says the housekeeper. “Hither, child, towards my Lady’s pillow. I am not sure that it is dark enough 94 Bleak House – Vol. One yet... ...ngling piano at last is silent, and the Harmonic friends rally round their pillows. Then there is rest around the lonely figure, now laid in its last ... ... Bleak House – Vol. One proposed that she and I and Peepy should go to the academy and afterwards meet my guardian and Ada at Miss Flite’s, whose name... ... bending our steps towards Newman Street, which was very near. I found the academy established in a sufficiently dingy house at the corner of an archw... ... and all looking rakish in the daylight. Miss Jellyby informed me that the academy had been lent, last night, for a concert. We went upstairs—it had b... ...en (his mind wandering) he insisted on keeping his little hammer under the pillow and chipping at the countenances of the attendants. The ruling passi... ... are!” “I am engaged, Ma,” sobbed Caddy, “to young Mr. T urveydrop, at the academy; and old Mr. T urveydrop (who is a very gentlemanly man indeed) has...

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...looking round with great caution, and reaching uneasily out of his nest of pillows, he endeavoured, with a strange air of secrecy and distrust, to mak... ...ut they’re all afraid of me,’ he added, leaning helplessly backward on his pillow; ‘even she! There is a curse upon me. What else have I to look for?’... ...first words!’ cried the old man, shaking his grey head to and fro upon the pillow, and throwing up his hands. ‘In his very first words he asserts his ... ...o return no more.’ With these words, the old man fell slowly back upon his pillow. Mr Pecksniff as slowly rose, and, with a prefatory hem, began as fo... ... new grammar had at school, long time ago, with ‘Master Pinch, Grove House Academy,’ inscribed in faultless writing on the fly- leaf! That whiff of ru... ...fore Mr Pecksniff 84 Martin Chuzzlewit dreamed at all, or even sought his pillow, as he sat for full two hours before the fire in his own chamber, lo...

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... you have made me say the thing that was not. Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several passages of my discourse to my master ... ..., upon a new foot. To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 155 projectors in Lagado; and th... ...rticulars, prevent the pleasure I should certainly take in viewing the grand academy, whither he was re solved I should go.” He only desired me to ob... ...rojector in my younger days. CHAPTER V The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado. The academy largely described. The arts wherein the pr... ... largely described. The arts wherein the professors employ themselves. T his academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of several h... ...tting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a liv ing horse...

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...schools. There’s the Mincing Lane establishment, and there’s your mother’s Academy. Which might you mean, my dear?’ ‘Both,’ said Bella. ‘Both, eh? Why... ...esent; but you may go to bed in the Albany, Piccadilly, with that for your pillow, young man!’ Thereupon, the little dress- maker again dabbed out his... ...the ice, or the cooling spirit, on his head, and would keep her ear at the pillow betweenwhiles, listening for any faint words that fell from him in h... ...cious?’ asked the little dressmaker, as the figure took its station by the pillow. For, Jenny had given place to it immediately , and could not see th... ...room, she drew her arm under his head, and laid her own head down upon the pillow by his side. ‘Undraw the curtains, my dear girl,’ said Eugene, after... ...ust crawled to bed and be dozing, when a horrid shake and rumble under his pillow would announce an approaching train of carts, escorted by this Demon...

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...gher than his freshly shaven, blue-gleaming head, which had rolled off the pillow and was thrown back. His upper lip, on which a little soft down was ... ...astly some unpleasant business concern- ing an attempt by a student of the Academy of Medi- cine on the life of a professor. Nicholas heard the rep... ...His decision in the case next re- ported to him—that of the student of the Academy of Medicine—was of the that senseless kind. The case was as foll... ... to carry out his plan. He drew his black wadded beshmet from under his pillow and went into his henchmen’ s room. They lived on the other side of ...

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...d until I fall asleep, making jokes in some outhouse (apparently under the pillow), where he is smoking cigars with a party of confidential friends. H... ...ow streets. The colleges, and churches too, and palaces: and above all the academy of Fine Arts, where there are a host of inter esting pictures, esp... ... and therefore declined to give up the Dictionary, which he kept under his pillow; thereby obliging his companions to come down to him, constantly, to... ...rd, who, to my knowledge, has gone half through the catalogue of the Royal Academy. This is the venerable, or patriarchal model. He carries a long sta...

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...hich Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this angle of... ...c most tenderness to her master; fancied his head was too low, beat up the pillows, and took care of him like a bride of yester- day. The poor creatur... ...n this one moment for all the past,” he said, as he laid her back upon the pillows. During the two weeks’ struggle between life and death, there glowe...

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...ning of her death she im- plored her to remember the tears that soaked her pillow, and not to imitate a conduct which even suffering could not ex- pia... ...a solemn oath. The dying girl, farseeing as prophet, drew from beneath her pillow a ring which she had sent by her faithful maid, Francoise Cochet, to... ...emoiselle,—Canalis (Baron of), Constant Cys Melchior, member of the French Academy, born in 1800, at Canalis (Correze), five feet four inches in heigh... ...ree thousand francs’ annuity from the literary fund, two thousand from the Academy, three thou- sand more from the paternal estate (less the taxes and... ... hear the verdict of the prince of science. That illustrious member of the Academy of Sciences put about a dozen brief questions to the blind woman as...

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...golf, of their children and the latest play , of the pictures at the Royal Academy , of the weather and their plans for the holidays. There was never ... ...e quietly. She doesn’t move for hours at a time. But she cries always. Her pillow is all wet. She’s too weak to use a handkerchief, and the tears just... ...nd her night- 144 The Moon and Sixpence dress in a little case lay on the pillow. It was im- possible to believe that she would never come into that ...

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...nd, And the press’d watch return’d a silver sound. Belinda still her downy pillow press’d, Her guardian Sylph 29 prolong’d the balmy rest: ... ...six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow grace a lady’s bed, While visits shall be paid on solemn days, When ... ...died in 1648; a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and member of the French Academy. 149 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Ah, quit n... ...te trim, Neatness itself impertinent in him, 174 ‘Figs:’ a prize-fighting academy; ‘White’s:’ a gaming- house, both much frequented by the young nobi...

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... though someone were going to sleep in it that night, and in a case on the pillow was a night-dress. Philip opened a large cupboard filled with dresse... ...omerset Maugham possible. He climbed up on the bed and put his head on the pillow. He lay there quite still. IV PHILIP P ARTED from Emma with tears, b... ...called out to Philip, but he did not an- swer. He had got his teeth in the pillow so that his sobbing should be inaudible. He was not cry- ing for the... ...d the Impressionists, but here were only the worst traditions of the Royal Academy . “There,” she said at last, “that’s the lot.” Philip was no more t... ... heard later that Mr. Cameron lec- tured also to the students at the Royal Academy . He had lived many years in Japan, with a post at the University o... ...no pain. He fell into a heavy sleep almost as soon as his head touched the pillow. LXIV BUT ABOUT THREE in the morning Philip awoke and could not slee... ...,” Philip murmured, closing his eyes with a smile. Griffiths shook out his pillow for him, deftly smoothed down the bedclothes, and tucked him up. He ...

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... travel as fast as your tongue, you might yet lay your head on an unbloody pillow to-night.” “Something there is like military skill in that,” replied... ...the snow, but considered it as ef- feminate luxury to use a snowball for a pillow. Plunder and revenge lay beyond the frozen mountains which they be- ... ...and to honour him.” “Spoken like an oracle,” said Montrose. “Were there an academy for the education of horses to be annexed to the Mareschal-College ...

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... to love,” she retorted, closing her eyes; then she turned her head on the pillow and made him an imperative sign to leave the room. Monsieur Graslin ... ...Paris to the first suspension bridge built by an engineer, a member of the Academy of Sciences; a mel- ancholy collapse caused by blunders such as non... ...ld have smothered him. How many men from the Ecoles are to be found in the Academy of Sciences? Pos- sibly two or three. The man of genius develops al...