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... remember, small green grapes for pies in the spring, and imperfectly ripe black grapes in favourable autumns for the purposes of dessert. The grape- ... ...s of desks before him. Occasionally be would slide to his feet and go to a blackboard on an easel and draw on that very slowly and deliberately in col... ...ifficult to draw, then my father would produce a simplified version on the blackboard to be copied instead. And he would also write on the blackboard ... ...he talk would become fragmentary. His hands would become earthy, his nails black, weeds would snap off in his careless grip, leaving the roots behind.... ...life. Stucco white elephants! Beastly cracked stucco with stains of green— black and green. Conferva and soot… . Property, they are! … Beware of Thing... ...rds, either white and new or a year old and torn and battered, promis- ing sites, proffering houses to be sold or let, abusing and intimidating passer...

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... Brussels theatre are of Nogent stone. Though remarkable for its beautiful sites, for the fa- mous chateaux which princes, monks, and designers have b... ...nn, and through the long court- yard to the stables, which were defined in black at the end of it. Daumartin’s diligence had just started, plunging he... ... neck and anxious face was evidently looking for him. She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl... ...fully brushed and curled; while he, by order of his step-fa- ther, had his black hair cut like a clothes-brush across the forehead, and clipped, like ... ...resque disor- der of the curly brown hair which fell upon his shoulders. A black-silk cravat drew a line round his very white neck, and added to the v... ...upon him. The master was a slight and pale young man, with extremely thick black hair, worn in a disorder that was actually fantas- tic. But this abun...

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...ow and hence forth removed. Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution ... ...er kind of vogue. The Custom House marker imprinted it, with a stencil and black paint, on pepper bags, and baskets of anatto, and cigar boxes, and ba... ...he scribbler of bygone days, when the antiquary of days to come, among the sites memo rable in the town’s history, shall point out the locality of T... ...vidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. But on one side of the portal,... ...il being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the t... ... of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentili...

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... number Nod…. But sheep, alas! suggest an episcopal crook. And presently a black sheep had got into the succession and was struggling violently with t... ...on and was struggling violently with the crook about its leg, a hawk-nosed black sheep full of reproof, with disordered hair and a pointing finger. A ... ...coat showed behind the chair-back, and the sash lay crumpled on the floor. Black doeskin breeches, still warmly lined with their pants, lay where they... ...y where they had been thrust off at the corner of the bed, partly covering black hose and silver-buckled shoes. For a moment the tired gaze of the man... ...irely weak-minded. The triangle and the eye became almost visible upon the black background of night. They were very angry. They were spinning round a... ...ly philanthropic work, but somewhere between the two. There must be vacant sites still to be got round about Kingsway. And there we must set up your t...

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...ng in which he had disguised himself, the young nobleman felt ashamed. His black leather belt, his stout shoes, his ribbed socks, his linsey-woolsey b... ...overed his knee with the skirt of his dalmatian, a species of robe made of black velvet, open in front, with large sleeves and no collar, the sumptuou... ...ous smile:— “You have not stolen your name; your hair and moustache are as black as the devil’s tail.” “I have supped,” he said. “Well then,” replied ... ...hair-strip, and the walls above were hung with yellow leather stamped with black arabesques; but what struck the young man most was a match-lock pisto... ...ght Christian, who seeks God on the roofs, wake up!” The young man saw the black face of Tristan l’Hermite above him, and recognized his sardonic smil... ...sition and its magical effects to be convinced of its superiority over the sites of all other royal residences. Louis XI., now in the fifty-seventh ye...

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...raph showed a stream and a meadow beyond, and some trees, and in the air a black, pencil-like object with flat wings on either side of it. It was the ... ...of feverish panic;—this was the reverse of the spec- tacle, these were the black and monstrous under-consequences of the Leap into the Air. There is a... ...oolish huge wig, the counsel also wore dirty-looking little wigs and queer black gowns over their usual costume, wigs and gowns that were held to be n... ...mounted by the frozen gestures of monstrous cranes rose over the excavated sites of vanished Victorian buildings. This framework attracted Barnet’s at... ... from. Near the T rafalgar Square gardens, a girl with reddened cheeks and blackened eyebrows, who was walking alone, spoke to 48 The World Set Free ... ... Paris from the Arc de Triomphe to Saint Cloud, great blocks and masses of black or pale dark- ness with pink and golden flashes of illumination and e...

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...ce and brown eyes was crowned by, and sharply contrasted with, the intense blackness of her hair, abun- dant, thick, extremely heavy, continually coru... ...ing and splendid under the blaze of the electrics. The gentlemen, in long, black overcoats, and satin muf- flers, and opera hats; their hands under th... ...back of the stage. The so- prano and her confidante returned. The basso, a black- bearded, bull necked man, sombre, mysterious, parted the chorus to r... ...ouetted against this rose a sombre mass, unbroken by any lights, rearing a black and formi- dable facade against the blur of light behind it. And this... ...e heavens, and raised against it the pile of the Board of T rade Building, black, grave, monolithic, crouching on its foundations, like a monstrous sp... ... bought somewhere else, and so on, till he owned some of the best business sites in the city. Just his ground rent alone brought him, heaven knew how ...

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... here and there mansions, similar to Crimsworth Hall, occupied agree- able sites on the hill-side; the country wore, on the whole, a cheerful, active,... ...” (this last term is, I believe, purely —shire, and alludes to the horn of black, rancid whale-oil, usually to be seen suspended to cart- wheels, and ... ...all have them; and turn to the light that I may see your brazen face blush black, when you hear yourself proved to be a liar and a hypocrite. At a pub... .... Life was again open to me; no longer was its horizon limited by the high black wall sur- rounding Crimsworth’s mill. Two hours had elapsed before my... ..., too, was very large and very lofty, and warmed by a stove; the floor was black, and the stove was black, and most of the furniture was black: yet I ... ...rienced a freer sense of exhilaration than when I sat down at a very long, black table (covered, however, in part by a white cloth), and, having order...

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...ng on the V of the vest added a flavor of law and learning. His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boots, standard boots, extraordinaril... ...and across the back a belt which belted nothing. His scarf was an enormous black silk wad. His flaxen hair was ice-smooth, pasted back without parting... ...gulfed in the folds of his long face; his hair was a tossed mass of greasy blackness; he puffed and rumbled as he talked; his Phi Beta Kappa key shone... ...ed and rumbled as he talked; his Phi Beta Kappa key shone against a spotty black vest; he smelled of old pipes; he was altogether funereal and archidi... ...k-chair and beamed on Miss McGoun. He was con- scious of her as a girl, of black bobbed hair against de- mure cheeks. A longing which was indistinguis... ...doned race-track on the outskirts of Chicago, a plot excellent for factory sites, was to be sold, and Jake Offut asked Babbitt to bid on it for him. T...

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... more combustible by brushwood and pine, flickered powerfully on the smoke blackened walls, and so cheered our spirits that we cared not what inclemen... ... his original occupation; which as the reader probably knows—was that of a blacksmith. As for external polish, or mere courtesy of manner, he never po... ... The sense of vast, undefined space, pressing from the outside against the black panes of our uncurtained windows, was fearful to the poor girl, heret... ...bank of the distant river, which was shimmering in the moonlight, came the black shadow of the only cloud in heaven, driven swiftly by the wind, and p... ... choose the selfish principle,— the principle of all human wrong, the very blackness of man’s heart, the portion of ourselves which we shudder at, and... ...f religion to preserve the sanctity of an ex clusive home, were selecting sites for their cottages, by the wood side, or on the breezy swells, or in ...

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...f drawing-rooms looking upon a gravelled yard, where two gaunt trees, with blackened trunks and branches, rattled rather than rustled, their leaves we... ...ng gaze from faltering. ‘My darling,’ said Richards, ‘you wear that pretty black frock in remembrance of your Mama.’ ‘I can remember my Mama,’ returne... ...hild, with tears springing to her eyes, ‘in any frock.’ ‘But people put on black, to remember people when they’re gone.’ ‘Where gone?’ asked the child... ...rom a short, brown, womanly girl of fourteen, with a little snub nose, and black eyes like jet beads. ‘When it was ‘tickerlerly given out that you was... ...ging your pardon, Mrs Richards, that don’t matter, you know,’ returned the black-eyed girl, who was so desperately sharp and biting that she seemed to... ...y streets and buildings, railway hangers-on and para- 229 Charles Dickens sites, and flatterers out of all calculation. There was even rail- way time...

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...ss in review the lines of what he called country houses, cottages, or even sites for building, not too remote from sweet London: and as when Coelebs g... ...marry.’ 12 The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper Lady Camper fixed her black eyes on him, but did not speak. He told Elizabeth that her ladyship’s...

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...ng tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in Got... ...t possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen h... ...ough the highest published creation, or work of genius, has never- theless black spots and troubled nebulosities amid its effulgence,—a mixture of ins... ...ircled mountain-pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black deeps you fear to gaze: those eyes, those lights that sparkle in it, ... ... of Com- mons, we shall note what progress he has made. He digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me an... ...selves too often reprobate, as idol- breakers are wont to be, mark out the sites of new Churches, where the true God-ordained, that are to follow, may...

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...hey are the prey of irresistible yet uncongenial impulses; they succumb to black despairs. The first thing we ask them is this: ‘What else could you e... ...issension had arisen 19 H G Wells between the little, ladylike, cream and black Charmeuse car and its owner. There was a faint air of resentment and ... ...t thing, now in the corners of a smiling mouth, now in dark eyes beneath a black smoke of hair, now in a slim form seen against the sky. Often I cared... ...ness of playing this lone hand!” The doctor watched his friend’s resentful black silhouette against the lights on the steely river, and said nothing f... ... mood and forgot. There was more sunshine then, more laughter perhaps, and blacker despair. Despair like the despair of children that can weep itself ... ..., mentally and materi- ally, to build all sorts of things…. Over here, the sites are frightfully crowded….” “And what do you think we are building now...

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...anners were strange and formidable, and her mourning robes— she dressed in black for twenty years after her husband’s death, and then suddenly appeare... ...ables ornamented with volumes of extracts from the poets, usually bound in black cloth stamped with florid designs in jaundiced gilt. The Doctor had t... ...ile be- neath the shadow of her capacious bonnet, on the edge of which her black veil was arranged curtain-wise, fixed itself upon Morris’s face with ... ...surprises for Mrs. Penniman, who frequently remarked, in the most romantic sites— ”You know I am very familiar with all this.” It should be added that...

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...rican heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘passed the sites, since become historic, of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf,’ and visited a... ...to find a thing out. We talked it over, and by and by Jim said it was such a black night, now, that it wouldn’t be no risk to swim down to the big raf... ...aking their heads and going on about what they was going to do; but a little black whiskered chap skipped up and says— “Come back here, you couple of ... ...l, it was a perfect pow wow for a while. Bob and the Child had red noses and black eyes when they got through. Little Davy made them own up that they ... ...ebody else doing, though there mayn’t be no sense in it. Pretty soon I see a black something floating on the water away off to stabboard and quarterin... ...watched the bar’l, and was oneasy and oncomfortable. Well, sir, it shut down black and still, and then the wind begin to moan around, and next the lig...

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...er thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king.” —Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond un- errin... ...re the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns. Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a ... ... within, pushed on and opened a second, interior door. It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black faces turned round in t... ...t. A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pul- pit. It was a negro church... ...n a pul- pit. It was a negro church; and the preacher’s text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there... ...ook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you lan...

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...oked threatening. Though several spaces of blue sky still parted the thick black clouds toward the horizon, a flock of fleecy vapors were advancing wi... ...e red rosette of the officers of the Legion of honor. A few spare locks of black hair mixed with white, like the wing of a magpie, escaped from the co... ...had once been a priory,” cried the marquis, as they reached a very old and blackened gate, through which they could see, in the midst of a large park,... ...onasteries of old. “How those ras- cals the monks knew how to choose their sites!” This last exclamation was an expression of sur- prise and pleasure ... ...hanous. Her face was as white as milk; her eyes, her clothes, her hair jet black. She looked at me as she flitted by, and though I may say I’m no cowa... ...he devil?— perhaps he inherited it from the monks. Come, let us pursue the black and white lady—forward, march!” cried Philippe, with forced gaiety. A...

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...ing the ardours of a vertical sun. If you will consent to imag- ine a bald blackbird, his neck being shrunk in apprehen- sively, as you may see him in... ...on horseback, leading up and down the walk a darling little, round, plump, black cob that made my heart leap with an immense bound of longing to be on... ...ery like sunshine and are lovely in it. I kissed my beauty, peering at his black-mottled skin, which is like Allingborough Heath in the twilight. The ... ...fairy prince who had charmed me. I called him Prince Leboo, because he was black and good. I forgive anybody who talks about first love after what my ... ...phere of his own house seems to favour Mr. Pollingray as certain soils and sites favour others. He walked into the dining-room between us with his han...

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... stript away; except, indeed, that the low roofs of a few of these ancient sites of worship were cov- ered with dingy stucco, and frescoed with script... ...who still journey from remote coun- tries to kneel and worship at the holy sites, among which these haunts of the early Christians are esteemed especi... ...f a depth that you had not sounded, though it lay open to the day. She had black, abundant hair, with none of the vulgar glossiness of other women’s s... ...es not acquit her of something evil, and never to be forgiven!” “Sorrow so black as hers oppresses her very nearly as sin would,” said Hilda. “Then,” ... ...rument, more inspiringly than ever. A darkchecked little girl, with bright black eyes, stood by, shaking a tambourine set round with tinkling bells, a... ... side, “Three shadows!” exclaimed Miriam—”three separate shad- ows, all so black and heavy that they sink in the water! There they lie on the bottom, ... ... if all the water of that great drinking-cup of Rome must needs be stained black or sanguine; and still he gesticulated to Miriam to follow his exampl... ...in days gone by. And what localities for new crime existed in those guilty sites, where the crime of departed ages used to be at home, and had its lon...