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...“A reasonable man adapts himself to the world. An unreasonable man persists on trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw, Maxims For Revolution...

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...told me.” “Edmund lifted up my father when he fell,” said Walter, “and was trying to bind his wound; but when Colonel Enderby’s troop was close upon t... ...ch had been lighted on the hearth at the approach of evening, and Rose was trying by the bad light to continue her darning of stockings, when a loud h... ...the stairs, the two brothers hurried off without another word, while Rose, trying to con- ceal her agitation, undid the door, and admitted her two lit... ...had been forty years old. “Pray excuse these children,” said Lady Woodley, trying to hide her anxiety under cover of displeasure at them; “no doubt Mr... ...attress, stuffed with chaff, wondering how Rose could bear to sleep on it, trying to guess how there could be room for both when her sister came to be... ...ush, my dears, be quiet; I cannot answer you now,” whispered Lady Woodley, trying to silence them by caresses, and looking with terror at the rigid, s... ...felt as if he could not move. “Don’t be trouble- some, children,” said he, trying to shake them off; “can’t you come near one without pulling off one’... ... many a humble, loyal, trustful peasant; there was the widowed Dame Ewins, trying to be comforted, as they told her she ought; there was the lady hers...

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...le Miss Alice dragged the laughter remorselessly out of me. They have been trying Frank’s new boat, Mr. Pollingray, and they’ve upset it. Oh! oh’ and ... ... mind. I was no sooner on my way to bed than all had faded. The torment of trying to conjure up that face was inconceivable. I lay, and tossed, and tu... ... like a miserable cripple. I was humiliated and vexed. All the while I was trying to lead up to the French lady, and I could not commence with a singl...

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...e unhappy. ‘We are both miserable as it is,’ said she. ‘What is the use of trying to make things worse? Let’s find things to do, and forget things.’ T... ... Ho! Ho!’ ‘Be an artist, then,’ said Maisie. ‘You’re always laughing at my trying to draw; and it will do you good.’ ‘I’ll never laugh at anything you... ...in England. That’s settled. Now swear.’ ‘Don’t know, said Dick. ‘I’ve been trying to make myself angry, but I can’t, you’re so abominably rea- sonable... ... est repose of tobacco. ‘Well, madman, how d’you feel?’ ‘I don’t know. I’m trying to find out.’ ‘You had much better do some work.’ ‘Maybe; but I’m in... ...aid, rubbing her chin thoughtfully along the fur. ‘Well? Why am I wrong in trying to get a little suc- cess?’ ‘Just because you try. Don’t you underst... ... I first took the little house, I used to walk up and down the back-garden trying to cry. I never can cry. Can you?’ ‘It’s some time since I tried. Wh... ...he weakness and the wickedness and—and the fat- headedness of deliberately trying to do work that will live, as they call it, I’m content with the kno... ...the check, too! Dick will be raving mad to-morrow. It was all my fault for trying to help gutter-devils. Oh, my poor Dick, the Lord is hitting you ver... ...ll fours, one hand in front of him. Torpenhow found him on the floor. ‘I’m trying to get the geography of my new posses- sions,’ said he. ‘D’you remem...

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...es, which gen- erally make the first days of a sea voyage so cheerless and trying to the temper, being somehow lived through, the succeeding days pass... ...e the world as a whole. Now for your second point; when you assert that in trying to set the house in order for the benefit of the young generation I ... ...d with cold scent. “You are good!” Clarissa gasped. “Horrid mess!” She was trying to apologise for white underclothes fallen and scattered on the floo... ...ou scream yourselves hoarse about politics you let the only people who are trying for something good starve or simply laugh at them. When have you eve... ...rst. “You try to get out, but you can’t. You only make a mess of things by trying.” “I’m not a hen in a circle,” said Hewet. “I’m a dove on a tree-top... ... most wonderful thing that’s ever happened to me.” He looked as if he were trying to put things seen in a dream beside real things. There was a long s... ...ss Vinrace, he was doing his best; he was paying you a com- pliment—he was trying—he was trying—” he could not finish for the laughter that overcame h... ...h, who received the gift as a knight might receive his lady’s token. “Very trying to the eyes,” was Mrs. Eliot’s next remark, after watching the yello... ...ously she had 165 Virginia Woolf been walking faster and faster, her body trying to outrun her mind; but she was now on the summit of a little hilloc...

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...e to look at her; a contemplation which showed him that she was agitated and trying to conceal it. He wondered why she was agitated, not foreseeing th... ... the South; you were too afraid of them to let them come there!’ She was now trying to think of something she might say that would be sufficiently disa... ...hed conspirators. Her refugees had been very precious to her; she was always trying to raise money for some cadaverous Pole, to obtain lessons for som... ...ere a necessary part of the enthusiasm of humanity. Miss Birdseye was always trying to obtain employment, Chapter 4 23 lessons in drawing, orders for... ...red what Doctor Prance would have said. ‘She’s just arranging her ideas, and trying to get in report; she’ll come out all right.’ This remark he heard... ...o lead; and it was not involved in the reign of justice, which they were all trying to bring about, that such a strict account should be kept of every... ...d to the newsboys when the compositors had turned their backs. He was always trying to find out what was ‘going in’; he would have liked to go in himse... ...t’s crying to her that she must not go, as Mr. Burrage and Mr. Gra cie were trying to persuade Verena to give them a little specimen of inspirational... ...t you think I did.’ ‘Why, Olive Chancellor!’ Verena murmured, as if she were trying, in spite of the sadness produced by this declaration, to do justi...

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...aged by hand, and employing hosts of the rough char acters whom I have been trying to describe. I remember the annual processions of mighty rafts tha... ... could not understand this extraordi nary procedure; so I presently gave up trying to, and dozed off to sleep. Pretty soon the watchman was back agai... ...incredible that Mr. Bixby should have left that poor fellow to kill the boat trying to find out where he was. But I resolved that I would stand by him... ...lock and all well—but me; I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of them trying to ache at once. Mr. Bixby asked me what I had stayed up there for... ...llowing a bend up stream at this stage of the river?” “No sir,—and I wasn’t trying to follow it. I was getting away from a bluff reef.” “No, it wasn’... ...r to sheer off, until the last moment; then it flashed upon him that she was trying to run him down, mistaking his lantern for the buoy light; so he s... ...n the Mississippi Mark T wain 98 women with reticules and bandboxes were trying to keep up with husbands freighted with carpet sacks and crying ba... ...upled! People came swarming ashore, overturning excited stragglers that were trying to swarm aboard. One more moment later a long array of stage plank... ...py or careless when his heart was in a race. He was constantly on the alert, trying gauge cocks and watching things. The dangerous place was on slow, ...

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...‘“I don’t want to speak to anybody,” he says, finding his voice at last, and trying to push her away. “I think I had better go. I’m I’m frightened,”...

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... fire of the stove in the dining-room, talking over their former business, trying to recall the faces of their customers and other matters they had in... ...made Provins what Ferrara was to Italy, Weimar to Germany,— what Munich is trying to be to-day.” “Was Provins ever a capital?” asked Rogron. “Why! whe... ...to the flesh. At last, in her mad- ness, she set her teeth into the wrist, trying to conquer the girl by pain. Pierrette defied her still, with that s... ...e is some truth in it?” said Vinet. Mademoiselle Rogron related the scene, trying to excuse herself; but, prodded with questions, she acknowledged the... ... the depravity of the girl, was not as much to blame as the Tiphaines were trying to make out. If she did use some violence to get possession of those...

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... a head considerably larger than his own; O’Bleary was reading Horace, and trying to look as if he understood it; and John Evenson had drawn his chair... ...ated in a small library at a table covered with papers, doing nothing, but trying to look busy, playing at shop. Acts of Parliament, and letters direc... ..., in the most play- ful and exhilarating manner. There were old gentlemen, trying to make out objects through long telescopes; and young ones, making ... ...’ ‘Sweet instrument!’ said an old gentleman with a bald head, who had been trying all the morning to look through a telescope, inside the glass of whi... ...he pigeon-pies looked as if the birds, whose legs were stuck outside, were trying to get them in. The table vibrated and started like a feverish pulse... ..., ma,’ said Miss Emma Porter, in colloquy with her respected relative, and trying to look uncon- cerned; ‘if they had invited me, you know that neithe... ...id any gen’lm’n say anythink?’ replied the cad, thrusting in his head, and trying to look as if he didn’t understand the request. ‘I told you not to b...

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...ot marry him? I have only a fortnight, to be sure, but there is no harm in trying.” And she determined within herself to make this laudable attempt. S... ...h; all the Sedleys have, I think.” “It kept me awake last night, and I was trying to hum it this morning, in bed; I was, upon my honour. Gollop, my do... ..., as they sate together in the snug little Brompton lodgings. She had been trying the new piano all the morning. The new gloves fitted her to a nicety... ... of a very stout figure) there was a general giggle in the room. “Don’t be trying to deprecate the value of the lot, Mr. Moss,” Mr. Hammerdown said; “... ...cer was becoming a more consummate hypocrite every day of his life. He was trying to hide his own private feelings, first upon seeing Mrs. George Osbo... ...-out, and go and see her, mind, whether she asks you or no,” Rebecca said, trying to soothe her angry yoke-mate. On which he replied, that he would do...

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... what — whole hundred weights!’ cried Dot, making a great demonstration of trying to lift it. ‘Whose is it, John? Where is it going?’ ‘Read the writ... ...ked and knocked; and he too failed to get the least reply. But he thought of trying the handle of the door; and as it opened easily, he peeped in, loo...

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...reat point.” “The great point?” “To be settled, I mean.” “Mercy, we’re not trying them!” cried my friend. “How can we settle it?” “I mean of course in...

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...l. We resolved that one among us should bring an action against him. After trying in vain to induce the Duc de Rohan, who was the only one of our numb... ...ing the Duc de Gesvres, the Chief President had been declared incapable of trying the case. The rage he conceived against us cannot be expressed, and,... ...from nobody that his sister was put- 95 Saint-Simon ting a joke on him by trying to persuade him that he was devout, declared that he was pestered by... ...ched a letter to the canons of Strasbourg, full of gall and compli- ments, trying to persuade them that the Abbe de Soubise was too young for the hono... ...- board, he could not resist drinking. The servant grumbled; and D’Effiat, trying to appease him, entered the apartments of Madame, like the other cou... ...t had oc- curred; the King laughed heartily at the poor Abbess, who, while trying to hide her shame, had come into the very midst of the Court. Nobody... ... talk, and a mighty opinion of himself, set to work haranguing the troops, trying to persuade them to surrender themselves pris- oners of war, so that... ...essor of some kind or other was abso- lutely necessary. Some, believing or trying to persuade oth- ers that they carried friendship to as far a point ... ...tenance. Under these circumstances it was found impossible to persevere in trying to save Mons. Noth- ing but subsistence could be thought of. The Cou...

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... above everying, and Bulbo must submit. So poor Bulbo was led out, Hedzoff trying to console him, by pointing out that if he had won the battle of Bom...

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... not increase the pleasure of the journey, or make the way less dreary. ‘A trying night for a man like me to walk in!’ said the locksmith, as he knock... ...g process, and stopping to smile, ‘it may be nothing. Any drunken brawler trying to make his way into the house, would have alarmed a quiet soul like... ...of patroles. How dare you come out of the door, sir, without leave? You’re trying to get away, sir, are you, and to make a traitor of yourself again? ... ...y other road, you vagabond. Are you tired of your life, sir, that you go a trying to provoke three great neck or nothing chaps, that could keep on run... ..., contented himself with tapping at the front windows of the carriage, and trying to steal a glance in side; Mr Tappertit, mounting the steps and han... ...wretches, in the midst of all the vast assemblage; here a frightened woman trying to es cape; and there a lost child; and there a drunken ruffian, un... ...o poor—and walked meekly away beside the cart that took it back to prison, trying, as he went, to touch its lifeless hand. But the crowd had forgotten...

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...ining me; but that is over now, or will be in a few weeks time. I had been trying for an engagement, and finding that beside your high-school diploma ... ...as when she looked again. Captain Grantley made it, you know, when we were trying to comfort Betty.” “I remember you and Lady Phyllis said you would g... ... and being dissatisfied with all the rules, I fancy she has some notion of trying to set up one on her own account at Mr. Flight’s. They are both rela... ...me she was seen.” “Yes,” sobbed Paula, “Sister Mena saw her there. We were trying to get up croquet, and then I missed her. I tried to find her when t... ... in walking about between the showers with Magdalen, as an old friend, and trying to think of the two as innocent creatures, engulfed like mayflies in... ...girls sitting by her and telling her she was better now. “Yes,” said Vera, trying to raise herself, finding something over her head, and falling back ... ... four years is not such a great trial in waiting.” “It is what I have been trying to persuade her,” said Agatha; “she is hardly seventeen.” “And I wou... ...tional con- ventions, and relate her experiences, and you—” “Oh, I am only trying to do the work Gerald aimed at!” “Any way we have our work before us... ... but kept herself entertained by surreptitiously popping the blossoms, and trying to wreath her hat with wild roses. Thekla meantime admired from the ...

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... amused herself so inno- cently for her seventeen years—like a grasshopper trying her first note—was seized with an old man’s desire; a desire apo- pl... ...state of harvest?” asked she, smiling. “When nature so wills it,” said he, trying to laugh. “What is it necessary to do for this?” replied she. “Ah! A... ...ged persons. “What is she doing?” said La Beaupertuys to the king. “She is trying to reanimate him. It is a work of Christian humanity.” And the old g... ...bout upon his stool, eyeing the maid and stretching his neck like a monkey trying to catch nuts, which the mother noticed, but said not a word, being ... ... yellow or grey locks; that God wishes to punish the lord of Valennes, for trying to purchase a jewel made to be given. THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS AT THE CO... ...aced by his spouse. “There, my dear, you are a light sleeper. It’s no good trying to make a 139 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 proper husband of you. There, ... ... the joy of the two lovers. The sweet wench and her well-beloved were busy trying to catch, in a certain lake that you probably know, that little bird... ...ittle bird that sometimes makes his nest there, and they were laughing and trying, and still laughing. “Ah, my darling!” said she, clasping him, as th...