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...ty , and the clergy. All lines are clearly marked; there the revolutionary level found the masses too rugged and too hard to plane; its instrument wou... ...court-yard, the other on the gar- den. These windows, rising almost to the level of the roof, have slender, delicate casings, the carvings of which ha... ... varied the symmetry of their sky-lines. These towers are connected on the level of the first floor by a stone gallery, supported by what we must call... ...nued guerilla warfare with the Republic, his exile, the perils of his five crossings through a turbulent sea in open boats, had weighed upon his head,... ... of life; 87 Beatrix so far, we have neither of us dropped from its first level. I am a little fatigued; for when one has a soul not easy to blaser, ... ...y sacrifice. Am I not a proof of your gran- deur? Will you not rise to the level of my disdained love,— disdained in spite of its sincerity, in spite ...

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...int yellow, that bright- ened and mingled at all the principal squares and crossings with the greenish pallor of incandescent mantles and the high col... ...h. She stood at the top of the three or four steps that de- scended to the level of the hothouse floor. She receded a pace or two, with a certain offe... ...id I. “They’re sending us food from outside,” he said, “and we’re going to level all these slums—and shift into tents on to the moors;” and he began t...

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...is wing—if it may so be called—containing two good-sized rooms nearly on a level 44 Chantry House with the upper floor, had nothing below but some op... ...He acted as bearer of long let- ters, which, in spite of a reticulation of crossings, were too expensive by post for young ladies’ pocket-money, often... ...posite slope of the ridge from our own. The new farm-buildings were on the level ground at the bottom to the right, where the declivity was much more ...

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...ur gate, from which direction the noise proceeded, and many rode along the level chaussee, to be in advance of any intelli- gence from the army. Each ... ...or- saken him. He was lively and facetious at dinner. During the repast he levelled one or two jokes against Pitt Crawley: he drank as much wine as up... ... way to Ludgate Hill, tripping along by the park wall and running over the crossings, so that many a man turned as she hurried by him and looked after...

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...males of the party to ascend to an elevation of some thirty feet above the level of the earth, but, with a little care and encouragement, to induce th... ... struggle upward toward the light, and to lift its modest head nearly to a level with the surrounding surface of verdure. Of this class were the birch... ...n which it tumbles some ten or fifteen feet, to 30 The Pathfinder another level, across which it glides with the silent, stealthy progress of deep wa... ...he end of which had touched the Pathfinder. The latter bowed his head to a level with a look-out near which he had intentionally kept himself and then... ...e party was menaced with an immediate discovery by those who had kept on a level with the river. All the facts pre- sented themselves clearly, and as ... ... of your mother, and of the manner in which he courted her, and of all the crossings and disappointments, until he suc- ceeded at last.” “My mother di...

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...le cottage pov- erty, and had had a class of little maidservants; but this level of life which is in no want, keeps a best parlour, and does not say m... ...ll get the aunts to call on Mrs. White, and that may help them to a better level among these vulgar folk.’ ‘But you won’t—’ said Fergus, with an expre... ...sort of handle to one’s name.’ ‘Gillian, Gillian, you are not going in for levelling,’ cried Aunt Adeline. ‘No,’ said Gillian; ‘but I call it snobbish... ...s line of gentry, as they found themselves at Rockquay, and viewed as on a level with the clerks and shop-girls of the place. Still more, as time went... ...un.’ 211 Beechcroft At Rockstone ‘Then mind you don’t jerk me back at the crossings.’ There are few pleasures greater of their kind than that of the ... ...ntented herself with a general moan on the deca- dence of society, and the levelling up that made such an affair possible. She had been meditating a v...

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...dy, and great application would be requisite to bring his attainments to a level with those of far less clever boys educated at a public school. Mr. L... ... with men of the same powers and pursuits with himself, and have found his level.’ ‘And that would have been a very high one,’ said Guy. ‘It would; bu... ...ura tried to persuade her that there was no need that she should be on the level of the society round her, and it ended in her spending an hour in dil... ...his own tried character had scarcely achieved, placing him not merely on a level with himself, but in a situation where hap- 156 The Heir of Redclyff... ...e maid shut the door, but Guy held out his hand, sat down so as to be on a level with her, and said,— ‘Don’t go, my little maid. Won’t you come and sp... ...ell what he would do when he was a man, and how he took care of her at the crossings, and how rude boys used to drive them, and how they would look in...

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...d ennobled, and thus had no imposts to pay, but that did not put them on a level with the children of crusaders. So said my mother and her friends, bu... ...f these were universally laughed at, and not treated 161 Yo n g e as on a level with the old hereditary office-bearers, who at least might think them... ...tes marked out by bright lights in the windows, and in the open spaces and crossings of the street bonfires, with dark figures danc- ing wildly round ...

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...ver it. “And now,” said the duke, raising it still six inches higher, “jump for the king.” The dog obeyed and jumped quickly over the cane. “Now, then... ...he throat of his horse, which fell, groaning. “For the last time, where are you going?” “To the devil!” answered D’Artagnan. “Good! you may be easy, t... ...count; you are going, then, to offer a prince, are you?” “I offer you a beggar, my lord.” “Ah! ah!” said Gondy, reflecting, “you are right, sir; some ... ...as welcomed by musket shots, while stones fell like hail from all the windows. He left there three men. He beat a retreat toward the market, but there... ...blue ribbon and chestnut horse of Winter; “take him alive.” “No! it is not the king!” exclaimed the cavalier. “Lord Winter, you are not the king; you ... ...hing, returned. The tumult was indescribable. More than half an hour passed before any one could make himself heard. The judges were looking for a new...

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... maze of London, which still seemed to her, in spite of her constitutional level-headedness, like a vast elec- tric light, casting radiance upon the m... ...ll this petty intercourse of men and women, this life made up of the dense crossings and entangle- 89 Virginia Woolf ments of men and women, had no e... ...pect to have the most momentous question of his life settled in a voice so level, so toneless, so devoid of joy or energy. At any rate William made no... ...me being all bright points in his life were blot- ted out; all prominences leveled. At first he made himself believe that Katharine had treated him ba... ...d her eyes, looked steadily at Ralph, and caught his fixed and dreamy gaze leveled at a point far beyond their surroundings, a point that she had neve... ...om of the Hilberys. Its purpose was benefi- cent; and yet so far above his level as to have something austere about it, a light that cast itself out a...

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... up her station on a low stool at his feet; thereby bringing her eyes on a level with the teaboard. It must not be inferred from this position of humi... ... politeness to be informed whether any of those very low observations were levelled at her; and receiving no more explanatory answer than was con- vey... ...And if it comes to pass that either of us be run over in any of those busy crossings which divide the streets of life, the other will convey him to th... ...t you in the art of surveying the back garden, or in ascertaining the dead level of the road between this house and the finger-post, or in any other p... ...ecessary to sustain him in this calling, had quickly fallen to his present level, where he retained nothing of his old self but his boastfulness and h... ... crowds of impostors, the while, becoming famous; men who are no more on a level with me than—Tigg, I take you to witness that I am the most persecute...

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...is aunt, too, made a butt of Briggs, the Captain followed the example, and levelled his jokes at her—jokes about as delicate as a kick from his charge... ...ur gate, from which direction the noise proceeded, and many rode along the level chaussee, to be in advance of any intelli- gence from the army. Each ... ...or- saken him. He was lively and facetious at dinner. During the repast he levelled one or two jokes against Pitt Crawley: he drank as much wine as up... ... way to Ludgate Hill, tripping along by the park wall and running over the crossings, so that many a man turned as she hurried by him and looked after... ...ility and was mollified to- wards the little woman. She deplored the fatal levelling tenden- cies of the age, which admitted persons of all classes in... ..., when the most atrocious revolutionary principles, and the most dangerous levelling doctrines are preached among the vulgar, to create a public scand...

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...e to make,—meaning very little, but still not altogether pointless. It was levelled rather at her husband than at her husband’s colleagues who were pr... ... her hus- band had been accused, and that part of that accusation had been levelled at herself. There was something in her manner of saying these few ... ...to a 513 Anthony Trollope pathway, —an inclined plane leading down to the level of the rails, and made there for certain purposes of traffic. As he d... ...est End were deserted. The houses were shut up. The very sweep- ers of the crossings seemed to have gone out of town. The public offices were manned b...

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... 2001. But there is no evidence that the hijackers manip- ulated passenger levels or purchased additional seats to facilitate their operation. 72 The ... ...ols for the FAA to obtain military assistance from NORAD required multiple levels of notification and approval at the highest levels of gov- ernment. ... ...ched NEADS.This was the first notification received by the military—at any level—that American 11 had been hijacked: 115 FAA: Hi. Boston Center TMU [T... ...AA headquarters to improve awareness and organize a common response. Lower-level officials improvised—for example, the FAA’s Boston Center bypassed th... ...nd and directly contacted NEADS after the first hijacking. But the highest-level Defense Department officials relied on the NMCC’s air threat conferen... ... attack four targets: the SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, the border crossings from Jordan into Israel, and two Christian holy sites, at a time ... ...visa and immigration data and joint border patrols; • staffing land border crossings 24/7 and equipping them with video cameras, physical barriers, an...

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...loaded into trucks, and 13 The Day’s Work backed up the bank beyond flood-level by the groaning loco- motives. The tool-sheds on the sands melted awa... ...the night of time he had built a bridge— a bridge that spanned illimitable levels of shining seas; but the Deluge had swept it away, leaving this one ... ... as an absolutely steady lady’s horse - proof against steam-rollers, grade-crossings, and street pro- cessions. “Salt!” said the Deacon, joyfully. “Y ... ...the same fam- ily—we will call him John Chinn the First—came to light as a level-headed administrator in time of trouble at a place called Mundesur. H... ... the veranda pillars, and, mechanically, he had tweaked the edge to set it level. Old Chinn had sworn three times a day at that screen for many years;... ...ich to a white mind would have seemed raving insanity; but the whispering, level-headed little men of 75 The Day’s Work war considered it from every ... ...together different plans, where loco- motives eternally whistled for grade-crossings, and parlor-cars of fabulous expense and unrestful design skated ...

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...n bands like those wrapped about a mummy , and the flesh crept through the crossings of the linen; his stomach came out beyond the scarlet jacket whic... ...e lakes of verdure in this mountain of di- versely-coloured blocks. It was levelled at unequal distances 45 Flaubert by the public squares, and was c... ...l, and she fell head downwards upon the other wall, reaching as far as the level of the pavement, which was touched by her pointed fingers. They drew ... ...ork of reeds. Several times he struck his foot, for the ground had various levels of unequal height, which formed a succession of apartments, as it we... ...he streets, and the people, who seemed very small and but little above the level of the pavement. Ah! if Hanno had not arrived too late on the morning... ... torches on the bronze shafts seemed to him like a vast crown of fire laid level with the pavement; black smoke issuing from them mounted up into the ...

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...g at all on the other side. Round the skirts of the valley (which is quite level, and paved throughout with flat tiles), extends a continuous row of s... ...s up into the body of the Turk just so high as to bring his eyes above the level of the chess-board. It is very probable that he seats him- self upon ... ...y directed) is greatly augmented by the dazzling effect of the complicated crossings of the rays—crossings which are brought about by placing the cent... ...h are brought about by placing the centres of radiation all upon different levels. 16. While the Chess-Player was in possession of Baron Kempelen, it ...

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... see where they flew—with my gun on my shoulder, and never once thought of levelling it at the birds. When I had time to reflect upon the matter, I ca... ...pplies from 54 Personal Memoirs Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande over the level prairies of T exas, were entirely inadequate to the needs of the rein... ...ere protected from the fire, and from the view, of the enemy except at the crossings; but at these a volley of musketry and a discharge of grape-shot ... ...tely in the valley, and the surface of the land is only a little above the level of the lakes, and, except to the south-west, it was cut up by deep di... ... San Antonio except to the front, and by a narrow causeway, over perfectly level ground, every inch of which was commanded by the enemy’s artillery an... ...d. The road from Perote to the City of Mexico, by this latter route, is as level as the prairies in our West. Arriving due north from Puebla, troops c... ...and’s corps was kept with its left flank on the Big Black guarding all the crossings. Fourteen Mile Creek, a stream substantially paral- lel with the ... ...reek, a stream substantially paral- lel with the railroad, was reached and crossings effected by McClernand and Sherman with slight loss. McPherson wa... ...from the Yazoo, been sent to the same place with instructions to watch the crossings of the Big Black River, to destroy the roads in his (Blair’s) fro...

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...some sit on logs, Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece; The groups of newly come immigrants cover the wharf or ... ... the elementary laws never apologize, (I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.) I exist as I am, that is enough, I... ...n them, shall we be fill’d and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. You are also asking me quest... ...ng steps! you arches! You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings! From all that has touch’d you I believe you have imparted to y... ...the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them? Leaves of Grass –Whitman 278 If you blind your eyes with te... ...eading the van, I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance, I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the wo...

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... i 39 GLENDOWER: Cousin, of many men I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave To tell you once again that at my birth The front... ...withal and grafted to, Accompany the greatness of thy blood And hold their level with thy princely heart? PRINCE HENRY : So please your majesty, I wo...

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...lack and close-cut; his skin indurated; and the bridge of his nose smashed level with his face. The tip, how- ever, was uninjured. It was squab and gl... ... him a terrible life.” “They say anything that brings gifted people to the level of their own experience. Doubtless they are right. I have not met Mr.... ...raid of nothing except burglars, big dogs, doctors, den- tists, and street-crossings. Whenever any accident occurred through any of these he preserved...

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...as his sense of the immediate two or three hours. He paused on corners, at crossings; there kept rising for him, in waves, that consciousness, sharp a... ... hurt them, but he imaged them no more than if his eyes acted only for the level of his own high head. Her own vision acted for every relation—this he... ...onstration, none the less, presented itself as taking place at a very high level of debate—in the cool upper air of the finer discrimination, the deepe... ...s and outlooks, no door appeared to give access from her convenient garden level. The great decorated surface had remained consistently impenetrable a... ...pany they should find their relief not so much in sinking to the rather low level of their companions as in wishing to pull the latter into the train i... ... a general rectification; she liked making out for herself that on the high level of Portland Place, a spot exempt on all sorts of grounds from jealous...

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...of that box, my dear sir—and—no, no, not a word now; but be careful of the crossings and—’ And with any disjointed and unconnected words which would p... ...o de- spair; for the hairdresser lived three streets and eight danger- ous crossings off; Morleena could not be trusted to go there alone, even if suc... ...ass a poor, mean burial-ground—a dismal place, raised a few feet above the level of the street, and parted from it by a low parapet-wall and an iron r...

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...Charles Dickens tapering off so delicately, and merging so gently into the level ground, that you could scarce define its limits. Hills swelling above... ...of that box, my dear sir—and—no, no, not a word now; but be careful of the crossings and—’ And with any disjointed and unconnected words which would p... ...ckens spair; for the hairdresser lived three streets and eight danger- ous crossings off; Morleena could not be trusted to go there alone, even if suc... ...ass a poor, mean burial-ground—a dismal place, raised a few feet above the level of the street, and parted from it by a low parapet-wall and an iron r...

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...mprovement of the productions of other contributors, like that employed in levelling ground, can be perceived only by those who had an opportunity of ... ...o sit down and dine with us.” I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish ... ...elling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they can- not bear levelling up to the... ...t he is a writer. Had he not been a writer, he must have been sweeping the crossings in the streets, and ask- ing halfpence from every body that past.... ... her only in that which she herself had chosen; and would not put her on a level with my other daughters. You are to consider, Madam, that it is our d...

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...compared to that which had said: “The Pavlograd hussars?” The Emperor drew level with Rostov and halted. Alexander’s face was even more beautiful than... ... they could not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might encou... ...ee the Emperor immediately! “ thought Rostov and galloped on. When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and around them canno... ... more than once remarked: “We regard ev- erything that is above the common level of rooted cus- tom...” or, with a smile: “But we want the wolves to b... ...and, having deduced the refu- tation he needed, would again descend to the level of the original discussion. In general the trait of Speranski’s menta... ...attitude of the masses. Only in the highest spheres did all these schemes, crossings, and interminglings appear to be a true reflection of what had to...