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...lers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies are inextricably linked, their love yearning to flower despite every obstacle...

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...on? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the wo... ...n. ‘I was tied to a tree by my friends who wanted to play our favourite game of Settlers and Red Indians. I was the youngest, so they decided I sho... ...rs and Red Indians. I was the youngest, so they decided I should be the “Settler” captured by the Indians.’ Rosita knew this game, which the childre... ...arried on the the shoulders of four men. THE CURSE OF KALI 41 Helen, observing the precarious movements of the dandies, as the men moved their l... ...nd saw her standing quietly behind her. She reminded Helen of a black cat with her almost furtive movements and strange amber eyes, which seemed to ... ...e to trot, squeezing gently with both calves and after a while rising to the rhythm of Sultana’s movements. The horse soon realised that these hands... ...g. The little, lost child he found in the English woods was now a grown woman with her pride and independence of spirit. Audrey Blankenhagen 86 ... ...n the foothills of the Himalayas and returned with her family to England after India was granted Independence from British Rule in 1947. Audrey now ...

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...ect. In the past half cen- tury there has begun a more systematic critical movement in the general mind, a movement analogous to the Pre- Raphaelite m... ...vement analogous to the Pre- Raphaelite movement in art—a Pre-Aristotelian movement, a scepticism about things supposed to be settled for all time, a ... ...ragments of his teaching enable one to understand him, and a new for- ward movement from that recovered ground. 8 First and Last Things 1.3. 1.3. 1.3... ... all religions to be in a measure true. Least comprehensible to me are the Indian formulae, because they seem to stand not on com- mon experience but ... ...ly way to rest and security in old age, to leisure, study and intellectual independence, to the safe upbringing of a family and the happiness of one’s... ...an’s heroine in “The Woman Who Did,” declare an exaggerated and impossible independence, refuse the fetters of marriage and bear chil- dren to a lover... ...ures, insure all its members, and while each retains a sufficient personal independence for freedom of word and movement, pool their family solicitude... ...ut the case is altered altogether if you have reason to suppose that a Red Indian is lying in wait a hundred yards off, holding a loaded rifle and rea...

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...n help themselves. She was brought up to be worshipped. Those are her West Indian ways. But don’t you get gentility notions; Theodora will never stand... ...t.’ ‘A grand course!’ repeated Jane, bewildered. ‘Yes, honest poverty, and independence. I looked to her to show the true meaning of that word. I call... ...le to exist without this world’s trash as to live in bondage for its sake. Independence is trusting for mainte- nance to our own head and hands.’ ‘So ... ...s. He had not prepared me for so much beauty, and such peculiarly graceful movements. My drawing days are nearly past, or I should be making a study o... ...ld her some awful stones about whipping blacks to death, and declared West Indian families were very apt to be haunted; but that it was a subject neve... ...much available of the wealth Lady Martindale had brought, nor was the West Indian property in a prosperous state; the demand was preposterous; and The... ...ed her into the room, her taper figure so graceful in her somewhat languid movements, and her countenance so sweetly blending the expression of child ... ...oks exactly as your poor little brother did!’ and she left the room with a movement far unlike her usually slow dignified steps. ‘ Ah!’ said her aunt,... ...elessness grew unbearable; for, whereas she had always declared for honest independence and poverty, the next thing I heard of her was, that she had a...

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... a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantes. Alexandre Dumas 11 Chapter 2 Father and Son. W... ... threatening countenance of Fernand, as it was defined in the shadow. By a movement for which he could scarcely account to himself, the young Catalan ... ...he Chateau d’If. But what are you doing? Help, comrades, help!” By a rapid movement, which the gendarme’s practiced eye had perceived, Dantes sprang f... ...out Europe. Greece only had risen against Turkey, and had begun her war of independence; all eyes were turned to- wards Athens — it was the fashion to... ...e a gun had been the young man’s greatest ambition. In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly he... ...Turks, the augers of the Persians, the stake and the brand of the Iroquois Indians, are inadequate tortures, and which are unpun- ished by society? An... ...re a philanthropist. Ah, you call yourself Oriental, a Levantine, Maltese, Indian, Chinese; your family name is Monte Cristo; Sinbad the Sailor is you... ... — a small octagonal-shaped room, hung with pink satin, covered with white Indian muslin. The chairs were of ancient workmanship and materials; over t...

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...midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars p... ...uncture with Gabriel Oak, and he recognised his position clearly. The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having ... ...erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the ani mal had ... ...itating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself. Yet ... ...roach her — that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation i... ...in and sim plicity of this appeal from a woman of Bathsheba’s calibre and independence, that Troy, loosening her tightly clasped arms from his neck, ...

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...rt of this justice and equality that the Boeotian towns should enjoy their independence. Epaminondas instantly and without wavering asked him in retur... ...he camp, arising from the hatred they bore to the general, and a universal movement of the soldiers to revolt, all tearing down their tents, and betak... ...d with all these actions; and on the first intelligence he received of his movements was in great anxiety about him, fearing lest he should be cut off... ...far greater forces than he disbanded; insomuch that if he had designed any movement or innova- tion in the State, he might have done it without his ar... ...he most covetous of honor. Scythia, moreover, was yet unconquered, and the Indians too, where their ambition might be colored over with the specious p... ...civilizing barbarous nations. And what Scythian horse, Parthian arrows, or Indian riches, could be able to resist seventy thousand Roman soldiers, wel... ...s wine, and the unwillingness of the Macedonians to follow him against the Indians, by which his enterprise and glory was left imper- fect, to the wra... ... of the Athenians. The garri- son was driven out, and the city restored to independence. While he was occupied in this, he remembered that Stilpo, the...

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....................................................... 32 5. RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE. ................................................................ ... Has it in her power again: Now she works with three or four, Like an Indian Conjuror; 30 Quick a... ... 60 34 Poems in Two V olumes, V ol. One 5. RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE. There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came ... ...ion was beguiled. What wonder, if a Poet, now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a Lover or a Child. 18. October, ...

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... countenance forbid such a suspicion, I might think myself the son of some Indian director, or rich citizen, who had more wealth than grace, and a han... ...ooses to govern by, nevertheless pretends not to envy you your freedom and independence. Latimer, I will tell you no lies. I wish my father would allo... ...e wise, and the free—affects me more than I am rejoiced by the freedom and independence assigned to me in all other respects. Thus, in seeking this ex... ...hat I had been educated to the law, but finding myself pos- sessed of some independence, I had of late permitted myself some relaxation, and was resid... ... inquiries, since the confounded fetterlock clapped on my 100 Redgauntlet movements by old Griffiths, prevents me repairing to En- gland in person. A... ...ou are aware I used to play no sorry figure at La Pique’s, when thy clumsy movements used to be rebuked by raps over the knuckles with that great prof... ...nce, where, if I did not acquit my- self with all the accuracy of step and movement which I had before attempted, I at least came up to the expectatio... ...ttom of the room, apparently intent upon examining the figures upon a fine Indian screen, a present to the provost from his brother, cap- tain of a ve...

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...He said I New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 173 reminded him of an Indian princess, was charmed by my uniqueness. Unfortunately, it was this s... ...ed his wife as she packed her bag. There was something different about her movements. Elementally different. Whether it was the mechanical actions Ne... ...that aspect, was actually faulting his mother's persuasion for Dagny's new independence and purposeful obstinance, wondered how much of Dagny's wantin...

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...waiting for some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions....

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...as nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she al- ways roused... ...ink of my taking such a lot of trouble about a clergyman’s wife, who wears Indian jew- elry and botanizes! She made Gus take her all through the glass... ... of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approach- ing. There was a movement behind her, a scattering of steps and voices: it was evident that ... ...tell you he’s a chap it pays to be decent to.” Miss Bart made an impatient movement, but suppressed the words which seemed about to accompany it. Afte... ...ed her—had under- 151 Edith Wharton stood and sympathized with the modest independence of her life. He, who had the reputation of weighing all things... ...ighed evasively. “She has her fast now, at any rate. To think of that loud independence of Mattie’s being only a subtler form of snobbishness! Bertha ...

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...ok leave, making a bow which had one knows not what of a certain chastened independence about it; as if misery, however bur- densome, could not break ... ...n any odd sort of way, is secretly making him his butt. In some moods, the movements of an entire street, as the suspicious man walks down it, will se... ...you not tell me your object before?” As not a little relieved. “Poor souls—Indians, too—those cruelly- used Indians. Here, here; how could I hesitate.... ...eep, rich chestnut, but worn in close, short curls all round her head. Her Indian figure was not without its impairing effect on her bust, while her m... ...accused her of being a toady. In a large sense she possessed the virtue of independence of mind. Goneril held it flattery to hint praise even of the a... ...s, and upon hillsides, go about in nature, humbly seeking her cures. T rue Indian doctors, though not learned in names, we are not unfamiliar with ess... ...f boys, as I may say, surely you will kindly allow scope ad- equate to the movement in hand, small and humble in its way as that movement may be. Is i... ...wit, mind, an irreligious Parisian wit, say, with regard to the temperance movement, that none, to their personal benefit, joined it sooner than nigga...

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..., occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale. The facts relating to this apparition (entered in v... ... shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with w... .... My clothes encumbered me; they seemed glued to my body, and paralysed my movements. I was sinking! I was suffocating! “Help!” This was my last cry. ... ...decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the... ...disappears. Ah! sir, live—live in the bosom of the wa- ters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!” Captain Nemo ... ... portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean extends fro... ...d in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time ... ...too many remembrances, if not too many regrets. Here he had no longer that independence and that liberty of gait which he had when in the open seas, a... .... But I had guessed that, whatever the motive which had forced him to seek independence under the sea, it had left him still a man, that his heart sti...

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...com- pany the gentlemen on their own, might a separate car- riage mark her independence; though it was in spite of this to befall after luncheon that ... ...erence and a sudden grim dash taken by Waymarsh to the opposite side. This movement was startlingly sudden, and his com- panions at first supposed him... ...ed soldier. He watched little brisk figures, figures 71 Henry James whose movement was as the tick of the great Paris clock, take their smooth diagon... ...ldn’t otherwise at present be feeling so many fears confirmed. There were “movements” he was too late for: weren’t they, with the fun of them, already... ...e to his idiosyncrasies, for Strether—the small sublime indiffer- ence and independences that had struck the latter as fresh—an odd and engaging digni... ...w him Paris, show him everything, and he never turns a hair. He’s like the Indian chief one reads about, who, when he comes up to Washington to see th... ...n tripped up and had a fall. In the very act of arranging with her for his independence he had, under pressure from a particular perception, incon- si...

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...ng, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, some times by turns, and sometimes altogether: until one feels ... ...us written by another; grasping their hands in hers, and following ev ery movement of their fingers, as letter after letter con veys their meaning t... ...e necessary for two pantomimes to paint their thoughts and feelings by the movements of the body, and the expression of the countenance, how much Amer... ...eive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impuls... ...lls, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians which once occurred there. It is a good place for such a struggle, ... ..., the first settler here (afterwards buried under it), was tied by hostile Indians, with his funeral pile about him, when he was saved by the timely a... ... all par ties concerned, and would not, I think, have compro mised their independence in any material degree, if some of these gentlemen had not onl... ... the soldiers entertain the wild est and maddest hopes of the fortune and independence American Notes – Dickens 214 that await them on the other si... ...erson who assassinated Lilburn W. Baggs, late Gover nor of this State, at Independence, on the night of the 6th inst. Governor Baggs, it is stated in...

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... By this time the officer of the deck aboard the Frenchman had noticed our movements, and hailed to know what had happened. Guy informed him through ... ...castle, his strange eyes gleaming restlessly, and watching the slight- est movement of the men. Many a time he must have been thinking of his bamboo ... ...ehaviour of these men; there was nothing of the national vivacity in their movements; noth- ing of the quick precision perceptible on the deck of a th... ...like an old woman seeing the children to bed. A basket of baked “taro,” or Indian tur- nip, was brought in, and we were given a piece all round. Then ... ...d offered to give us, every day, a small quantity of baked bread-fruit and Indian turnip in exchange for the bread. This we agreed to; and every morni... ...hem by many ties, and which, more than once, had solemnly guaranteed their independence. As for the missionaries, they openly defied the French gov- e... ...e that it arises, in most cases, from the eating of unripe bread-fruit and Indian turnip. So far as I could find out, it is not hereditary. In no stag... ... capers in the direction of our journey. Say what they will of the glowing independence one feels in the saddle, give me the first morning flush of yo...

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...o a power, of which, hitherto, they had never enjoyed a fraction. It was a movement per saltum, beyond all that history has recorded. At cock-crow the... ...w developing her strength, no longer the safe and docile arena for popular movements which once she was, with a people that were scattered and habits ... ...it become more important to hang weights and retarding forces upon popular movements amongst the laboring classes. This being so, we have never been a... ...nd lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the Khelawt, or robe of state, ... ...ibes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essays and Ot... ...at stamina and noble elements in the modern Greek character—generations of independence will carry this character to excellence; but still we affirm, ...

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... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ...t’s as good as my own curries in India.” “Oh, I must try some, if it is an Indian dish,” said Miss Rebecca. “I am sure everything must be good that co... ...ck Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes). “They are real Indian, I assure you,” said he. “Sambo, give Miss Sharp some water.” The pa... ...s; their attitudes and their elbows and their starch, with her humble soft movements and modest graces. Poor Swartz was seated in a place where Emmy h... ...ted to treat the coachman to drink when- ever they met, old Miss Crawley’s movements were pretty well known by our young couple; and Rebecca luckily b... ... humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph! After the first movement of terror in Amelia’s mind —when Rebecca’s green eyes lighted upon... ...n, as the case might be. “How cool that woman is,” said one; “what airs of independence she assumes, where she ought to sit still and be thankful if a...

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... more the “Black Gentleman”—the name they had given him—was erratic in his movements; he did not always come down the Rue du Tourniquet; the old woman... ...f claret-colored merinos, a silk bonnet, and striped shawl of an imitation Indian pattern, came out to choose seats in a chaise at the corner of the R... ...er then turned to play with his boy, whose effu- sive affection showed the independence and freedom in which 27 Balzac he was brought up. No sort of ... ...man involuntarily bent over her a little to breathe this diviner air. This movement attracted the girl’s notice; her gaze, raised to the altar, was di... ...e always found her seated at a little 40 A Second Home table of some West Indian wood, and engaged in marking the linen of her trousseau. Angelique n...

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...ns that, by a logic of their own, immediately fall, for the fabulist, into movement, into a march or a rush, a patter of quick steps; but altogether i... ... mild adventure; but what is truer than that on one side—the side of their independence of flood and field, of the mov- ing accident, of battle and mu... ... yet, but she’s not discouraged.” “It’s her share in the family trait, the independence she speaks of.” Her son’s appreciation of the matter was more ... ...an. “I suppose the young lady has left her somewhere: that’s a part of the independence.” The girl spoke to Ralph, smiling, while she still held up th... ...of 50 The Portrait of a Lady sight. The result was kaleidoscopic, but the movement of the instrument was checked at last by the servant’s com- ing in... ...ing that appearance of rare profundity with which some ladies consider the movement of their needles. One day, however, a visitor had arrived. The two... ...he hotel and wandered all over the place. It was lovely weather —a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We just lived in that park. Oh yes; you ca...

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...lsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. We hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering the tho... ...o a stand in the middle of a bog. And they are the prettiest attitudes and movements into which a pretty girl is thrown in making up butter—tossing mo... ...a sideward inclination of the round white neck; little patting and rolling movements with the palm of the hand, and nice adaptations and finishings wh... ... smooth, or perhaps Adam hangs back till he’s in a better position. He has independence of spirit enough for two men—rather an excess of pride, if any... ...or the slates; he knew exactly how many grains were gone out of the ear of Indian corn that hung from one of the rafters; he had long ago exhausted th...