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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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...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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...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 was 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... ...s of Banks and Solander, Cook’s naturalists, we find a Danish member of the Academy of Sciences setting down certain Iceland Whales (reydar fiskur, or W... ...p in the hold at the foot; and a piece of sail cloth being rolled up for a pillow, Queequeg now entreated to be lifted into his final bed, that he migh...

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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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... 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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... 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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...of old service induced him to refresh and settle the fair semi-slumberer’s pillow, and fix the tar- paulin over her silks and wraps; and bend his head... ...tleman in their yoke. It plighted them over flesh. He talked to her on the pillow, just a few sentences; and, unlike himself, a word of City affairs: ... ...now ‘in contrition of spirit,’ that in formerly opposing the scheme for an Academy, he helped to the hand- ing of our noble language to the rapid repo...

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...up abruptly, undressed very quickly in the dark, and had hardly touched my pillow again before I was asleep. But how my mother slept that night I do n... ...lease the half-educated middle-class, glared for a mo- ment and were gone, Academy marbles crumbled to useful lime, a gross multitude of silly statuet...

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...ressed them by turns to his languidly beating heart, sunk exhausted on his pillow. They were concerned to find that his reason went astray after this;... ...read as follows: 33 Charles Dickens ‘“Education.—At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta... ...paper?’ ‘—Morning Post, Chronicle, Herald, and Advertiser, re- garding the Academy called Dotheboys Hall at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near ... ...oats and cloaks, and leaving the light and warmth of the town behind them, pillowed themselves against the luggage, and prepared, with many half-suppr... ...s either the one or the other,’ replied Miss La Creevy. ‘Look at the Royal Academy! All those beautiful shiny portraits of gentlemen in black velvet w... ...t, as mere abstract legs, have set themselves up for mod- els at the Royal Academy. It was quite exhilarating to hear the clash and bustle with which ... ...ing on the bed with the reddest face ever seen, cramming the corner of the pillow into his mouth, to prevent his roaring out loud with laughter. He ha... ... had as yet been unconscious of the presence of a sick man propped up with pillows in an easy-chair, who, moving restlessly and impatiently in his sea... ...id Madeline, bending over him. She was so busily employed in arranging the pillows that Nicholas could not see her face, but as she stooped he thought...

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...—explains the existence of such re ally national institutions as the French Academy, and the French national theatre, the Th´ eˆ atre Franc ¸ais. The... ...ege des Quatre Nations,” the Institute of France, and the home of the French Academy. In 1635, at a time when France was still struggling with the hea... ...taste in speech, in culture, in manners,— as the fusing principle of his new Academy. The traditional point of view of its founder has been faithfully... ... “Forty Immortals,” the Academicians who throne under the famous cupola. The Academy has never shrunk into a mere retreat for lettered pedantry: as M.... ...hat a standard must be set, and that it is for them to set it. Therefore the Academy does not simply call to its ranks famous or careful writers, but ... ...CTUAL HONESTY I M ost people, in their infancy, have made bogeys out of sofa pillows and over coats, and the imaginative child always comes to believ...

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...se vestiges. And that day the egg hatched. “Hatched, sir, when my head was pillowed on it and I was asleep. I heard a whack and felt a jar and sat up,... ... of their own; half the people, I dare say, who go along Piccadilly to the Academy every year, could not tell you where the learned societies abide. M... ... colour. Before I was in bed my mind was already tranquillised. I felt the pillow at my cheek, and thereupon I must have fallen asleep. * * * I ... ...imbs, a sense of cutaneous discomfort. I lay with my head motionless on my pillow, expecting that my feeling of strangeness and terror would pass away... ...thing wrong kept fast hold of me. With an effort I raised my head from the pillow, and peered about me at the dark. What it was I could not conceive. ... ...was intoxicated, my slow undressing, the coolness to my flushed face of my pillow. I felt a sudden distrust. Was that last night, or the night before?...

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... ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING, Hortense, who had slept with the seal under her pillow, so as to have it close to her all night, dressed very early, and se... ...nd thou, Saint Valerie, my patron saint, why dost thou so rarely visit the pillow of her who was intrusted to thy care? Oh, come this evening, as thou... ...body, she went to see Mademoiselle Josepha Mirah, prima donna of the Royal Academy of Music, to find or to lose the hope that had gleamed before her l... ...quarter of an hour, gave rise to a series of over-free jests, to which the Academy could not award the Montyon prize; but among which the name was tak... ... a priest from Saint-Tho- 371 Balzac mas d’Aquin standing by her friend’s pillow, and a sister of charity in attendance. Religion could find a soul t...

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...circumstances have been sus- tained, then, R. W ., lay your head upon your pillow and say, “Poor Lavinia!”’ Here, Miss Lavinia, from her kneeling situ... ...ied to restore her. But failing, he laid her head gently down again, got a pillow and placed it under her dark hair, and sought on the table for a spo... ...hillings to establishing herself in it; the existence of such capital in a pillow being the last intelligible confidential communication made to her b... ...elt it to be quite out of the question that he could lay his head upon his pillow in peace, without first hovering over Mr Boffin’s house in the super... ...band, but without harshness, ‘if you cut in when requested not, I’ll get a pillow and carry you out of the room upon it. What do you want to say, you ... ...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...

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...ng a gentle- man. I will write a letter today to the Director of the Royal Academy, and tomorrow he will admit you without any ex- pense to yourself. ... ... T reville, stopping him. “I promised you a letter for the director of the Academy. Are you too proud to accept it, young gentleman?” “No, sir,” said ... ...hing.” Milady made no reply, but turning her beautiful head round upon her pillow, she burst into tears, and uttered heart- breaking sobs. Felton surv... ... with- out parting with the emancipating knife, which I concealed under my pillow. “When I awoke, a fresh meal was served. “This time, in spite of my ... ...e his breast. “My first impulse, on coming to myself, was to feel under my pillow for the knife I had not been able to reach; if it had not been usefu... ...robe fall, and lay down. “I found my knife where I had placed it, under my pillow, and while feigning to sleep, my hand grasped the handle of it convu...

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... Horace. I think the well of Castaly’s run out. No more the Muses round my pillow haunt. I am fallen once more to the mere proser. God bless you. R. L... ...last year, and walked in the procession to the new. I blush to own I am an Academy boy; it seems modern, and smacks not of the soil. P.P.S. – I enclos... ... beauty; all but love – to any worthy practiser. I sleep upon my art for a pillow; I waken in my art; I am unready for death, because I hate to leave ... ...ng Walter I had unearthed ‘a W.S. that I thought would do’ – it was in the Academy Lane, and he questioned me as to the Signet’s qualifications; fourt... ...t was – you were – his religion. I write by this post to Austin and to the Academy. – Y ours most sincerely, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 299 The Letters ... ..., that I preferred to keep it for another place and make but a note in the Academy. To try to draw my friend at greater length, and say what he was to...

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... and bother to me—a native element?” In the morning Clement, raised on his pillows in bed, showed himself highly grateful for the proposal about his y... ... his aunt’ s port- folio, “that’s a stunner! You should work it up for the Academy.” “This kind of thing is better for the purpose,” Mrs. Grinstead sa... ...rinstead, and the Rev. E. C. Underwood, and who is a pupil at Mrs. Edgar’s academy for young gentlemen, was, we are informed, in- volved in the most i...

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...ndness for her never ceased, even after her death. He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his n... ...s. Johnson was not more satisfied with his situ- ation as the master of an academy, than with that of the usher of a school; we need not won- der, the... ...ir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their... ...England, and was employed successively in the capacities of an usher to an academy, a correc- tor of the press, a reviewer, and a writer for a news-pa... ... Boswell’s Life of Johnson ried me out to dine with Mr. Elphinston, at his academy at Kensington. A printer having ac- quired a fortune sufficient to ... ...nto the wheel, and as sleepy as a dor- mouse.’ Mr. Windham having placed a pillow conve- niently to support him, he thanked him for his kindness, and ... ... him, he thanked him for his kindness, and said, ‘That will do,—all that a pillow can do.’ 656 Boswell’s Life of Johnson He requested three things of...

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...es which are let down from the roof. Mattresses slip out from one nook and pillows from another. Blankets are added, and the bed is ready. Any over-pa... ...was in consequence obliged to abandon his commis- sion and retire from the Academy. Will that young lady ever again sleep quietly in her bed? I should... ...I feel assured that West Point, taken as a whole, is an excellent military academy, and that young men have gone forth from it, and will go forth from...

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...d to accompany her. Since then she had worked industriously at Colarossi’s Academy, by no means under the delusion that she had talent, but merely to ... ...t’s 139 Maugham room. It was empty. The bed had not been slept in. On the pillow was a note. It’s no good; I can’t help myself. I’ve gone back to him...

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... to explain them. In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner.... ... same author {Plin. 1. viii.c.48.}, of some triclinaria, a sort of woollen pillows or cush- ions made use of to lean upon as they reclined upon their ... ...times done, too, by private do- nors. The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta...

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...ther’s brother— George stared at his wife. “Go on,” she twinkled, from the pillows. —mother’s brother, sold his place to Walter’s family. We seem to h... ...ss,” Mrs. Cloke went on. “An’ Cloke was only wonderin’ this afternoon—your pillow’s slipped my dear, you mustn’t lie that a-way—just for the sake o’ s... ...n’s custom, till the weather grew hot, to sleep in my bed, her head on the pillow like a Christian; and when morning came I would always find that the... ...ay, all four feet spread out, sighing heavily. She settled her head on the pillow several times, to show her little airs and graces, and struck up her... ... 39 Kipling Let me in and I’ll’ be good!” She was admitted and flew to her pillow. When she was quieted I whispered to the other dog, “You can lie on ... ... the light-built one with the yellow beard painted his picture at the last Academy: He’s a swell R.A., James Loman.” “And the brown chap with the hand... ...reseen extra, as was Jimmy’s gratis full-length—(it will be in this year’s Academy) of Penfentenyou, who has returned to his own place. Now and again,...

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...or another look 49 Joseph Conrad I saw that he had turned his head on the pillow and was staring wistfully out of the window at the sails of a cutter... ...lish. A wild and stormy abode, sometimes, was that confined, shallow-water academy of seamanship from which I launched myself on the wide oceans. My t... ... beds within sound of the sea. I imagine that not one head on those envied pillows was made uneasy by the slightest premonition of the realities of na...

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...izabeth! And there lay the hoary head of good Father Hooper upon the death pillow, with the black veil still swathed about his brow, and reaching down... ...bewil- dered soul could have forgotten, there was a faithful woman at this pillow, who, with averted eyes, would have covered that aged face, which sh... ...ank from one another, in mutual affright, Father Hooper fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corpse, with a faint smile lingering on the lips. Still ve... ...ated him, and with one low, complaining whisper, turned his cheek upon the pillow. He then addressed Dor- 71 Hawthorne othy with his usual sweetness,... ...nother dollar for my extra expenses. He then laid his pocketbook under his pillow, shook hands with me, and advised me to take some biscuit in my bag,... ...nd propriety, that everybody thought her fit to be preceptress of the best academy in the State. But a stranger would have supposed that Mr. Higginbot... ... 106 Twice Told Tales cation, with a classic finish by a year at Gilmanton Academy. After journeying on foot from sunrise till nearly noon of a summer...

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... backward 173 George Eliot from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat backward the white beaver bonnet which... ...g by the fire, saw its red light falling on the old man, propped up on his pillows and bed-rest, with his bony hand holding out the key, and the money... ... Raffles on most occasions kept up the sense of having been educated at an academy, and being able, if he chose, to pass well everywhere; indeed, ther... ...mother, emphatically,—”she is like a dog— she would take their shoes for a pillow and sleep the better.” “Mr. Ladislaw’s shoes, I would,” said Henriet...