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...fulness,” said Parkson, “suffices for me. If we are to smear our political movements with this sort of stuff …” “Does it work?” interjected Lewisham, ... ...laration of a great adventure. Then, as he paced the long platform, came a philosophical mood, a sense of entire detachment from the world. He saw a b... ...ally flit- ting about the room and coming back to mutual smiles. All their movements were faintly tremulous. She professed to be vastly interested and... ...y assumed enormous propor- tions. At times indeed even that good man’s own philosophical sketch of himself as a practical exponent of mental sincerity... ... his portmanteau. Ethel neither spoke nor moved, but remained watching his movements. For a time the portmanteau refused to emerge, and he marred his ... ...ledgments of Lewisham’s goodness only partly relieved his disposition to a philosophical bitterness. And the practical issues were complicated by excu...

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...dity and joyous eagerness looking out of his eyes, and of all his ways and movements. I have a Picture of him at this stage; a little portrait, which ... ...cial Spaniards of that coast seemed to have the watchfulest eye on all his movements, nay it was conjectured they had spies in Gibraltar who gathered ... ...must be altered to make it such; and a man who wishes merely to get at the philosophical result, or summary of the whole, will regard the details and ... ...er not relating peculiarly to myself, the judgment of the ninety-nine most philosophical heads in the country, if unanimous, would be right, and mine,... ...l, he returns to Clifton. His plans, of course, were ever fluctuating; his movements were swift and uncertain. Alas, his whole life, especially his wi... ... Black- artists, and successful Professors of political, ecclesiasti- cal, philosophical, commercial, general and particular Leg- erdemain, will recog... ...lyle soul I have never known. It was beautiful, to read all those interior movements; the little shades of affecta- tions, ostentations; transient spu...

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...bled Socrates. I mean he re- sembled him genuinely: that is in the face. A philosophical mind is but an accident. He reproduced exactly the familiar b... ...t light thrown down by the gateway lamps. These figures were wary in their movements and perfectly silent of foot, like beasts of prey slinking about ... ...d wide again and the white-bearded man issued, astonishingly active in his movements, using his stick almost like a leaping- pole to get down the step... ...t every moment, in a never-failing perfect correctness of speech, glances, movements, smiles, gestures, establishing for her a high reputation, an imp... ...p into the pockets of his fawn overcoat. The woman, that woman of composed movements, of deliberate superior manner, took a little run to catch up wit... ...her on the point?” I ventured to ask. Mrs. Fyne moved her shoulders with a philosophical ac- ceptance of all the necessities which ought not to be. So... ...with a purely instinc- tive precision; his mind had nothing to do with his movements. In the middle of his leap, and while in the act of sailing grave...

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...d white sea-birds were riding. Rising and falling with smooth and graceful movements in the hol- lows of the waves they seemed singularly detached and... ... at Minehead— ignoring the drunken women, the golden animals of Crete, the movements of battalions, the dinners, the reforms, the fires, the indignant... ...e of time—pure waste of time,” thus speak- ing half to himself, with quick movements of his hands; they had come round again to the circle of books on... ...nking. But Hirst did not help him, and the other people with their aimless movements and their unknown lives were disturbing, so that he longed for th... ...lushing watched her with keen gusto as she stood ejaculating with emphatic movements of her head and hands in the middle of the room. “Go on, go on, d... ...air seemed to press soft fingers upon the eyelids, sealing them down. Some philosophical remark directed, appar- ently, at St. John Hirst missed its a... ...disturbed; it seemed to be reserved for a later generation to discuss them philosophically. Crashing down a final chord with her left hand, she exclai...

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...aigne through Switzerland is not without interest, as we see there how our philosophical traveller accommodated himself everywhere to 13 Montaigne th... ...t and regularity, we may doubtless thank Fortune, which, in its capricious movements, has for once taken the path of reason. This consideration, Monse... ...ere have remained to us but the bark and the leaves. The exactly regulated movements of his mind, his piety, his virtue, his justice, his vivacity, th... ...you do not hear from me: at the same time begging you to bear in mind that movements of this kind are wont to be so sudden and unexpected that, if the... ...118 Essays: Book the First dissimulation in all the rest: where these fine philosophical discourses are only put on, and where accident, not touch- in... ...his end? The controversies and disputes of the 120 Essays: Book the First philosophical sects upon this point are merely verbal: “T ranscurramus sole... ...and———, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science: but as to philosophical discourses, they al- ways divert and cheer up those that ente... ...are abuses, things by which our lives can never be amended: take the plain philosophical discourses, learn how rightly to choose, and then rightly to ...

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...lowing her. They rejoined their mother, and I heard their voices and their movements, sound- ing in the distance like the murmur of bees about a hive.... ... a shawl, and when all were ready she, usually so calm and slow in all her movements, became as active as a Parisian, and we started in a body to pay ... ...titude with which we carried out the or- ders of Monsieur Origet. Like all philosophical physicians, whose sagacious observation of what passes before... ...uses to serve my breakfast herself—ah, with what sparkling pleasure in her movements, what swallow- like rapidity, what lynx-eyed perception! and then... ...as if the instrument had lost some chords and others were out of tune. Her movements were apathetic, her eyes without light. I begged her to tell me h... ... of a child who looks every one in the face, and now dropped her eyes; her movements were slow and infrequent, like those of her mother; her figure wa...

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...y a closer 12 The Door in the Wall and other stories watch was kept on my movements after this misadventure to prevent my going astray. No, it wasn’t... ... Nunez sought to assert himself that he found how easy and confident their movements could be. 99 H G Wells He rebelled only after he had tried persu... ...s a great doctor among these people, their medicine-man, and he had a very philosophical and inven- tive mind, and the idea of curing Nunez of his pec...

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...contested election; and a horse-keeper, ostler, or helper, was held by the philosophical at that time to be the most corrupt character in the nation. ... ... made known, very unequally enforced, and therefore often embarrassing the movements on both sides. *“Quartering”:—This is the technical word, and, I ... ...showing, a secondary arch. So far as I know, every element in the shifting movements of the Dream derived itself either primarily from the incidents o...

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...layed anatomical figures known to artists as /ecorches/. Then, by a highly philosophical revulsion, after describing the house of ill-fame where the A... ...t superiority over the best women of Sancerre; she was better dressed, her movements were graceful, her complexion was exquisitely white by candleligh... ...sively his own. Men who have reached Lousteau’s age try to distribute the “movements” of this repertoire through the whole opera of a passion. Loustea... ...e into provincialism, dis- playing her handkerchief and making involuntary movements of which she had almost cured herself. At last, between the secon...

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...nature marked his attentions with the charm of grace. Though he shared the philosophical tenets of the eighteenth century, he installed a chaplain in ... ...ire drearily, as though he were deprived of all conscious- ness of his own movements by the tyranny of ideas. Madame Claes keenly regretted her defect... ...ave been expected from his beautiful face; and something femi- nine in his movements accorded well with the melody of its tones and with the tender br... ...huddered, no doubt, as he thought of all that his search had cost him: his movements betrayed that his thoughts were busy outside of Science. Margueri...

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...trolled, and for years to come would have controlled, the free spontaneous movements of a contemplative dreamer like myself. Consequently, this separa... ... Perhaps it may be coeval with the pyramids. For in the famous “Essay on a Philosophical Character,” (I forget whether that is the exact title,) a lar... ..., and throughout the magnificences of the capital, at length we set off by movements as slow and circuitous as those of any royal progress in the reig... ...continent, had offered a character of interest wanting to the inartificial movements of Father Roche and Bagenal Harvey. In the year 1798, there were ... ...l extinction within one single revo- lution of the moon. For all the rebel movements, subsequent to the morning of Vinegar Hill, are to be viewed not ... ... scandal to the military discretion in high quarters than had attended the movements of General Fawcet in the south. 218 Thomas de Quincey On the 4th...

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...here, I joined the cavalry, which was encamped at Obersheim. After several movements—in which we passed and repassed the Rhine—but which led to no eff... ...is Prince, so equal in his manners, so thoroughly mas- ter of his lightest movements, even upon the gravest occa- sions, succumbed under this event. O... ...ers, four of whom were already in the secret, was made acquainted with the movements of the new party; and, after a little hesitation, were gained ove... ...At the time I speak of she was a tall, fat creature, mightily brisk in her movements, with a complexion like milk-por- ridge; great, ugly, thick lips,... ...ranger, either to her or to the King. He had taken a prominent part in the movements of Paris against the Court and Cardinal Mazarin. If he had not be... ...he suppression of his pay, and his retirement to Anet, where he affected a philosophical indifference. Crestfallen as he was, he continued to sustain ...

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...rers, where alleviation was beyond his power; whilst, by the energy of his movements and his personal presence on the Danube, he soon dissipated those... ...ued action of that strength which it had inherited from the republic. In a philosophical sense, therefore, it may be af- firmed, that the empire of th... ... was gratified by the occasion which then arose for repressing the hostile movements of the Germans. He led his army off upon this expedition; but the...

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...ng me about? The patriot? Now isn’t it he who’s at the bottom of all these philosophical ideas?’ 17 Turgenev ‘Perhaps.’ ‘Is he an exceptional individ... ...ort- able possible; she felt as if she were being rocked to sleep. All her movements were slow and soft; what had become of her awkwardness, her haste...

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...n a westerly direc- tion, though with less decision of purpose. Ruminating on this extraordinary circumstance, and endeavouring to remem- ber whether ... ...erience it describes to Lord Houghton. That gentleman then showed me an article of his writing, in The Edinburgh Review for January, 1862, which is hi... ... men (not one of whom strikes an attitude) than a few occasional echoes. But for a whisper in the air suggestive of sawdust and shavings, the oar-maki... ...m—are familiar to us all. The Ruffian becomes one of the established orders of the body politic. Under the playful name of Rough (as if he were merely... ... both legs, but that he was steeped in grave to the summit of his high shirt-collar, and had nothing real about him but his bones. Alone sta- tionary ...

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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... ...race — a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch. “You say, sir” — said the king. “That I am exceeding... ...r sixty-five years; but a certain briskness and appearance of vigor in his movements made it probable that he was aged more from captivity than the co... ...self over his careworn countenance. Dantes gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonis... ...s than if I possessed a watch; for that might be broken or deranged in its movements, while the sun and earth never vary in their appointed paths.” Th... ...to grow; his head fell on his shoulder, his legs bent beneath him, and his movements were apparently automatic and unconscious. * Dr. Guillotin got th... ...cried Chateau-Renaud; “life is not worth speaking of! — that is rather too philosophical, on my word, Morrel. It is very well for you, who risk your l... ...thy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has dis... ...ave been taken for Parian marble, had not the eye been undeceived by their movements as they constantly shifted in and out of a pair of little slipper...

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...oat”—and proceeds to hunt for the best water, the pilot on duty watching his movements through a spy glass, meantime, and in some instances assisting... ...e further reason that the eyes of the passengers are watching all the yawl’s movements with absorbing interest if the time be daylight; and if it be n... ...her up to the bank whenever his judgment said that that course was best. His movements were entirely free; he consulted no one, he received commands f... ... Mark T wain 344 that sort of analytical attention which an experienced and philosophical traveler alone can give. This has made his vol umes highly... ... the lake. Meantime the party remained stationary in the center to watch his movements. He traveled all around, till at last he came to the place from...

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...couple of hours watching a brown-breasted gondolier making superb muscular movements, in high relief, against the sky of the Adriatic, and at the end ... ...nce was slightly exaggerated, as with an intention of irony; but he smiled philosophically to himself, and reflected, as he passed into the room, that... ...his nerves, his senses must have something to amuse them. This is a highly philosophical way of saying that he has taken to dissipation, and that he h... ...ther; and at Florence he could at least more freely decide upon his future movements. He felt profoundly, incurably dis- gusted. Reflective benevolenc... ...nding planted on the train of a lady’s dress, gazing across at Christina’s movements with undisguised earnestness. There were several more pieces of m... ...tway turned his back or stopped his ears, and Roderick now witnessed these movements with perfect indifference. When the latter was absent from the st...

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...and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is repr... ...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...

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...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... ...uced a great deal of lively and agreeable discourse, and a whole series of philosophical ques- tions was discussed. At length they came to the strange... ...scern a man’s covetousness by the air of his countenance, and the look and movements of his eyes. For Demosthenes could not resist the temptation, but... ...irators. So also did Quintus his brother, and Publius Nigidius, one of his philosophical friends, whom he often made use of in his greatest and most w... ...ity. The work and object which he set himself was to compose and translate philosophical dialogues and to render logical and physical terms into the R... ...hed general scholar in all these branches, having left behind him numerous philosophical treatises of his own on Academic principles; as, indeed, even... ...nt condition, still sparkled from within, and let itself appear in all the movements of her coun- tenance. Caesar, desiring her to repose herself, sat... ...ves to effect, by keeping Dion with him in the Academy, and busying him in philosophical studies. Dion sojourned in the Upper Town of Athens, with Cal... ...retary, gave of the matter. But others would tell you that there were many movements in both armies for acting in concert; and if it were possible for...