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... 88 A LITTLE PREP ........................................................................................................................... 106 THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY ........................................................................................... 124 THE LAST TERM ................................................................................................

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..................................................................... 106 THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY ........................................................ ... him move in the bushes, go straight across to Aves. They want to catch us flagrante delicto.” They dived into the gorse at right angles to the tunnel... ...shing. Go on, Beetle—from ‘jugurtha tamen’—and, if you can, avoid the more flagrant forms of guessing.” Prout’s house was furious because Macrea’s and... ...ils!” “It’s the olive branch,” was Stalky’s comment. “It’s the giddy white flag, by gum! Come to think of it, we have metagrobolized ‘em.” Just after... ...ed the animal. Et ego— McT urk, please—in Arcadia vixi. There’s a certain flagrant injustice about this that ought to appeal to—your tempera- ment. A... ...gan.” “But look here, why aren’t we wrathy with the Head? He said it was a flagrant injustice. So it is!” said Beetle. “Dear man,” said McT urk, and v... ...u are a funny ass! What’s that for?” said Beetle. “I’m—I’m thinking of the flagrant injustice of it!” Rudyard Kipling THE MORAL REFORMERS THERE WAS N... ...d, in a little business which we have agreed to forget, that strikes me as flagrant injustice …. What are you laughing at, you young sinners? Isn’t it... ... It’s a way we have at the Public Schools, Which nobody can deny!” THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY IT WA S WINTER and bitter cold of mornings. Consequen...

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...TREES .................................................................................................................................... 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .................................................................................................... 6 JOURNEY......................................................................................................

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.................................................................. 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .............................................................. ...9 Edna St. Vincent Millay There, encompassed round by fire, Stood a blue-flag in a bog! Little flames came wading out, Straining, straining toward... ...r, Son and Holy Ghost, Reach a hand and rescue me! “There—there, my blue-flag flower; Hush—hush—go to sleep; That is only God you hear, Counting...

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...Excerpt: ?Halloa! Below there!? When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the t...

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... voice thus calling to him, he was stand ing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, co... ...ming away over the landscape, I looked down again, and saw him refurling the flag he had shown while the train went by. I repeated my inquiry. After a... ... he seemed to regard me with fixed attention, he motioned with his rolled up flag towards a point on my level, some two or three hundred yards distant... ...ages, and send replies. Once he had to stand without the door, and display a flag as a train passed, and make some verbal communication to the driver....

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...ith a paper knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on ... ... were to conquer or die. The enemy appeared, approached. Waving his black flag, the colonel attacked. Confusion ensued. Anxiously I awaited my sign... ...t through, and seeing Boldheart slashing a path towards him, hauled down his flag himself, gave up his sword “Holiday Romance” Charles Dickens 21 t... ... towards him. On his firing a gun ahead of her to bring her to, she ran up a flag, which he instantly recognised as the flag from the mast in the bac... ...ies of joy. Before ‘The Beauty’ could get under way, the hoisting of all the flags in the town and harbour, and the ringing of all the bells, announce...

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...ien boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil Was firing the can... ...l superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. “The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, “Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe... ...e greatest power in Europe.” And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And... ...As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And followed the flag till I saw it raised By our camp in a rice field near Manila, And all ... ...f fear To the hour of the charge through the steaming swamp, Following the flag, 101 Edgar Lee Masters Till I fell with a scream, shot through the gu... ...ee Masters Till I fell with a scream, shot through the guts. Now there’s a flag over me in Spoon River. A flag! A flag! John Wasson OH! the dew-wet gr... ...y, scourges, death— If Harry Wilmans who fought the Filipinos Is to have a flag on his grave Take it from mine. 102 Spoon River Anthology Many Soldie... ...e. 102 Spoon River Anthology Many Soldiers THE idea danced before us as a flag; The sound of martial music; The thrill of carrying a gun; Advancement... ...n James HARRY WILMANS! Y ou who fell in a swamp Near Manila, following the flag Y ou were not wounded by the greatness of a dream, Or destroyed by ine...

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...ope) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board one of the grandest of 4 Notes on a Journey from ... ...ntry church, and on going on deck we found an awning raised, a desk with a flag flung over it close to the compass, and the ship’s company and passeng... ... considerably under the value of a farthing,—streamed out. “They know that flag, sir,” said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening a... ...emains the recollection of the fine city and the blue sea, and the Spanish flags floating on the boats that danced over it, and Joinville’s band begin... ...up the huge mountain, from the tower nestled at the foot of it to the thin flagstaff at the summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edi... ...t was pleasant, certainly, to laugh at 21 Thackeray Joinville’s admiral’s flag floating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thunderin... ...ful pleasure. There she lay—the huge sea-castle—bearing the unconquerable flag of our country. She had but to open her jaws, as it were, and she migh... ...with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, jumping over... ...Grand Cairo mids, and along the vast rock-galleries, and up to the topmost flagstaff, where the sentry can look out over two seas, poor fellows are ma...

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...true. He and my countrymen in your Majesty’s service stood under the green flag in the breach of Burgos, and beat Wellington back. It was the only tim... ...and very nearly six feet in length, completed this elegant costume. My two flags were each surmounted with a real skull and cross-bones, and ornamente... ...d beard (of enormous length, taken from men slain in battle by me). On one flag were of course the arms of John Company; on the other, an image of mys... ...ordi- nary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure. On the top of this my flag was planted, and the small garrison of forty men only were comfortably... ...e running to me, saying that a Mahratta soldier was before the gate with a flag of truce! “I went down, rightly conjecturing, as it turned out, that t... ... good fortune for that, and passed boldly out of the fortress, bearing the flag of truce as before; I had scarcely passed on a couple of hundred yards... ...ormed its garrison, and were keeping watch on the roof—each roof bearing a flagstaff twenty feet long on its top, the crescent glit- tering with a tho... ...the figure. The ruffians were mustered in front, the cavalry be- hind. The flags were flying, the drums, gongs, tambourines, vio- loncellos, and other...

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...re met his eyes, when of a sudden he found himself sprawling on the sacred flagging. He looked up to behold three enraged priests, who forthwith fell ... ...handernagor, where Passepartout would have been proud to see his country’s flag flying, were hidden from their view in the darkness. Calcutta was reac... ...e, “though rascal as he is, he is a polite one!” The sails and the English flag were hoisted at ten minutes past three. Mr. Fogg and Aouda, who were s... ...about to apply a red-hot coal to the touchhole, Mr. Fogg said, “Hoist your flag!” The flag was run up at half-mast, and, this being the signal of dist... ...e quay near the custom-house, in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing the flags of all nations. Passepartout went timidly ashore on this so curious t... ...re had been seen by the captain of the Y okohama steamer, who, espying the flag at half-mast, had directed his course towards the little craft. Philea... ...s, were full of people. Men were going about carry- ing large posters, and flags and streamers were floating in the wind; while loud cries were heard ... ...c way, no doubt, of casting a vote. The crowd swayed back, the banners and flags wavered, disap- peared an instant, then reappeared in tatters. The un... ...gle auditor, “will you not plant yours there, too, under the shadow of our flag?” “No!” replied Passepartout courageously, in his turn retir- ing from...

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...e enemy from Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, capturing eight battle-flags, four guns, and over 1800 prison- ers, with very little loss to himse... ...r lives in defense of their country and in vindication of the honor of its flag; that the nation owes to them some permanent recognition of their patr... ...urbed the public peace but have overborne the civil au- thorities and made flagrant civil war, destroying property and life in various parts of the St... ...ould gladden the heart of Slidell in Europe, and of every enemy of the old flag in the world. Ev- ery advocate of slavery naturally desires to see bl... ...ry Powers) are entirely satisfactory. The rebellion which has so long been flagrant in China has at last been suppressed, with the co-operating good o... ...m glad to see an Indiana regiment on this day able to present the captured flag to the Governor of Indiana. I am not dis- posed, in saying this, to ... ...us the ground occupied by the enemy this morning. I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been fou... ...ag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been four flags captured to-day.” Judging by the two points from which General Grant ... ... Seven NOTE ON A CARD TO SECRETARY STANTON. April 10, 1865. Tad wants some flags—can he be accommodated? A. LINCOLN. RESPONSE TO A CALL, APRIL 10, 186...

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...white and blue and laven- der, moved gaily. Everywhere fluttered the small flags of holi- day. Every form danced lightly in the sunshine. And beyond i... ...isitive birds; the old Victory 18 The Trespasser shook her myriad pointed flags of yellow and scarlet; the straight old houses of the quay passed by.... ...rough her to Siegmund, from Siegmund to her. It sank, and she felt herself flagging. She had not the man’s brightness and vividness of blood. She lay ... ...her blood runs in bondage, and her kindness is full of cruelty. Helena lay flagging upon the breast of Siegmund. He folded her closely, and his mouth ... ...e, where Helena was wait- ing for him, was long and crooked, with a sunken flagstone pavement running up to the door by the side of the lawn. On eithe... ...lness wafted on her throat. As the afternoon wore on she revived. Quick to flag, she was easy to revive, like a white pansy flung into water. She shiv... ... not smothered it and pretended? Why had she, a woman, betrayed herself so flagrantly? Now perhaps she had lost him for good. She was consumed with un... ...motion, amid the eclipsed blue of the day; small boats with red and yellow flags fluttered quickly, trailing the sea with colour; a pleasure steamer c... ... ground were men-of-war, a long line, each one threading tiny triangles of flags through a sky dim with distance. ‘It is all very glad,’ said Siegmund...

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...efore spring set in. But indubitably it was a company, it had even a house-flag, all white with the letters F. C. T. C. artfully tangled up in a compl... ... mainmast head, and now I have come to the conclusion that it was the only flag of its kind in existence. All the same we on board, for many days, had... ... our best quartermaster, deft at fine needlework, he who mended the ship’s flags and sewed buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulde... ...all, dingy cafe for sailors cast a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing by, one heard a deep murmur of voices inside—nothing mo... ...l with my eyes. Before she had gone in a quarter of a mile she hoisted her flag, as the harbour regulations prescribe for arriving and departing ships... ...iving and departing ships. I saw it suddenly flicker and stream out on the flag staff. The Red Ensign! In the pellucid, colourless atmosphere bathing ...

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... to reach the gig lying ready for them at the other end with the Company’s flag at the stern. Sticks, stones, shots flew; knives, too, were thrown. Ca... ...e. Captain Mitchell had himself steered the cargo lighter, all draped with flags, which, in tow of the Juno’s steam launch, took the Excellentissimo f... ..., 37 Joseph Conrad full of notabilities, sitting under the flutter of gay flags, in the place of honour by the side of Captain Mitchell, who steered,... ...urs of domestic life are marked by the shifting of light and shadow on the flagstones. Señor Avellanos was in the habit of crossing the patio at five ... ...n the slant of sunshine. Then the old porter would hobble in, sweeping the flagstones, and the house was ready for the day. All the lofty rooms on thr... ...a vague vision of long ears of mules, of fluttering little green and white flags stuck upon each cart; of raised arms in a mob of sombreros with the w... ...on drive when I suddenly saw an Indian boy ride out of a wood with the red flag of a surveying party in his hand, I felt something of a shock. The fut... ...to point out to you the very object of my re- quest.” An enormous national flag of Costaguana, diago- nal red and yellow, with two green palm trees in... ... between the town gate and the harbour, under the bunches of multicoloured flags fluttering on tall poles. Faint bursts of military music would be hea...

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...s and old men cheering and shouting, of the streets and rows hung with the flags of the Allied Powers, of a real enthusiasm even among the destitute a... ...s, whose spirits were in rebellion against all these ancient traditions of flag and empire. Weren’t we, perhaps, already in the throes of the last cri... ...Firmin, that I am here as—as an infernal politician to put my crown and my flag and my claims and so forth in the way of peace? That little French- ma... ...only be done by putting all the world under one government. Our crowns and flags are in the way. Mani- festly they must go.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ interrupted F... ...ontemporary emotions. They interrupt. They set back. Suddenly out come the flags and fireworks, and the old enthusiasms are furbished up—and it’s shee...

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...ore spring set in. But indubitably it was a com- pany, it had even a house-flag, all white with the letters F.C.T.C. artfully tangled up in a complica... ...main-mast head, and now I have come to the conclusion that it was the only flag of its kind in existence. All the same we on board, for many days, had... ...ur best quarter- master, deft at fine needlework, he who mended the ship’s flags and sewed buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulde... ...mall dingy cafe for sailors cast a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing by, one heard a deep mur- 118 Some Reminiscences mur o... ...” with my eyes. Before she had gone in a quarter of a mile she hoisted her flag as the harbour regulations prescribe for arriving and departing ships.... ...iving and departing ships. I saw it suddenly flicker and stream out on the flagstaff. The Red Ensign! In the pellucid, colourless atmosphere bathing t...

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...ed-inwoven cot, _95 Thatched with broad flags. An outlawed murderer Had lived seven days there: the pursuit was hot... ...a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb, And at its outlet flags huge as stakes Dammed it up with roots knotted like water-snakes. And... ...he river’s trembling edge _25 There grew broad flag-flowers, purple pranked with white. And starry river buds among the se... ...s are full, the boat makes head Against the Serchio’s torrent fierce, Then flags with intermitting course, And hangs upon the wave, and stems ...

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...hat reins were tightened in despair, When rose Benledi’s ridge in air; Who flagged upon Bochastle’s heath, Who shunned to stem the flooded T eith,— Fo... ...frontlet of the elk adorns, Or mantles o’er the bison’s horns; Pennons and flags defaced and stained, That blackening streaks of blood retained, And d... ...ud atone? Are there no means?’—’ No, stranger, none! And hear,—to fire thy flagging zeal,— The Saxon cause rests on thy steel; For thus spoke Fate by ... ...n, When was his form to courtiers known! XXV . The Monarch saw the gambols flag And bade let loose a gallant stag, Whose pride, the holiday to crown, ... ... wrath and despair in the jolly black-jack, And the seven deadly sins in a flagon of sack; Yet whoop, Barnaby! off with thy liquor, Drink upsees out, ... ...h was dumb. There breathed no wind their crests to shake, Or wave their flags abroad; Scarce the frail aspen seemed to quake That shadowed o’er ... ...Sprung from his horse, and from a crag Waved ‘twixt the hosts a milk-white flag. Clarion and trumpet by his side Rung forth a truce-note high and wide... ...he preci- pice above. His water he procured for himself, by letting down a flagon tied to a string into the black pool beneath the fall” (Scott). 98. ...

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...le best to work us up to en- thusiasm for, let us say, a Greek play. If we flagged he would lash himself to revive us. He would walk about the class- ... ... “stark fact.” We hung nude pictures in our rooms much as if they had been flags, to the earnest concern of our bedders, and I disinterred my long-kep... ...h windows, through which the tea drinking had come out upon the moss-edged flagstones even as Mrs. Seddon had planned. The party was almost entirely f... ...little booing. Down in one corner of the square a fight was going on for a flag, a fight that even the prospect of a speech could not instantly check.... ...that was drowned in a cascade of shouts and cheers. The conflict round the flag culminated in the smashing of a pane of glass in the chemist’s window ... ...ire jostle one another, pass the big embassies in the W est End with their flags and scutcheons, follow the broad avenue that leads to Buckingham Pala... ... present lethargy of soul, I pray for a chastening war—I wouldn’t mind her flag in the dirt if only her spirit would come out of it. So I was able to ... ... Better plunder than pa- ralysis, better fire and sword than futility. Our flag is spread over the peninsula, without plans, without intentions—a vast... ...k for all, thassort of thing.” The gentleman from Cambridge paused. “You a flag!” he said. “I’d as soon go to ba’ell und’ wet tissue paper!” My best a...

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...e kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk along the flags and up the steps into the parlour. How the floodgates were opened, an... ...shed to the churches, and crowded the chapels, and knelt and prayed on the flags and steps. The dull sound of the cannon went on rolling, rolling. Pre... ...tment where Regulus still sate on the kitchen table, and clung fast to his flagon of beer. In the best French which he could muster, and which was in ... ...peared the young ensign in the leg, who fell, still bravely holding to his flag. At the conclusion of the engagement, a place had been found for the p... ...ered with swans, and barges containing ladies in hoops, and musicians with flags and penwigs. Indeed Raggles thought there was no such palace in all t... ...ing in the great old fire-place—a carpet was down over the chequered black flags—”It’s the old Turkey one that used to be in the Ladies’ 205 Thackera...

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... drive anyone off on either side, who came to plunder, and they even had a flag with the motto— “If you take our cattle We will give you battle.... ...ter Steward with one of the best napkins on the end of a stick— that was a flag of truce, you know—and all the rascal Roundheads had to come in, and w... ...more fighting, for one of the gentlemen inside had ridden out with a white flag, and it was said the Prince was talking of giving in. “Give in!” cried... ... assured him that if he would come up, he would see for him- self that the flags were changed. Indeed some of the foot sol- diers who had been quarter...

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... of the staircase. Other servants adorned all the balconies of the various stories with flowers and banners; others ascended to the roof and hoisted a... ...d him visible, so I thought out a way to manage it; I composed the picture from two points of view; the spectator is to observe the man from bout wher... ...eir great-great-grandfathers had not been the first to do it when they were children. The strokes of the bare feet had worn grooves inches deep in the... ...he reigns; 61 A Tramp Abroad there seems to be a wheel missing—this would be corrected in a finished Work, of course. This thing flying out behind is... ... he has climbed a hill, or jumped a brook, or traversed a brickyard with it, he has the names of those places burned upon it, too. Thus it is his regi... ...e just as beautiful as you were then, and you have transmitted a deal of your comeliness to this fine boy. There—if that speech moves you any, let’s f... ...r feet, and the Matterhorn was conquered! The others arrived. Croz now took the tent-pole, and planted it in the highest snow. “Yes,” we said, “there ... ...” we said, “there is the flag- staff, but where is the flag?” “Here it is,” he answered, pull- ing off his blouse and fixing it to the stick. It made ...