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...of the credit. You may remember, Aggy, when I painted the sign of the bold dragoon for Captain Hollister there was that fellow, who was about town lay... ...to lay aside the numberless garments they had worn in the air. During this operation Richard kept up a desultory dialogue with the different domestics... ... him deserving of it; and Elnathan had been present at one or two of these operations. But on the present occasion the man of practice was not to be o... ...ding the leg! The limb was certainly cut off, and the patient survived the operation. It was, however, two years before poor Milligan ceased to com- p... ...trong light of these 67 James Fenimore Cooper candles is favorable to the operation, and it is seldom that we hard students enjoy good eyesight.” Whi... ...h an exactitude that marked both his own skill and the impor- tance of the operation. When this preparatory measure was taken, Dr. Todd se- lected a p... ...im, from a most cunningly contrived apart- ment in the garret of the “Bold Dragoon,” an inn kept by one Captain Hollister, to the site of the intended... ...h Elizabeth, to whom the whole was familiar, read with facility, “The Bold Dragoon.” A man and a woman were issuing from the door of this habitation a... ...about which, you may remember, you had the disagreement.” “It is the bould dragoon, ye mane? And what name would he have, who niver was known by any o...

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...amatic tearing-of-hair and long-stride fury, not ill becoming an enamoured dragoon. But he maintained that his aunt, though an eccentric, was a cordia... ...Meredith husband upon the General, trembling as though she watched for the operations of a fish torpedo; and other ladies shared her excessive anxious... ...y. But hardly had he escaped before he had a desire for the renewal of the operation. ‘She sees me through, she sees me through,’ he was heard saying ...

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... ap- pearance, by saying that he was a recognizable Englishman in Austrian dragoon uniform;—white tunic, white helmet, brown moustache;—ay! and eh! an... ...was an insufficient guarantee for his fitness to govern Venezia. Two young dragoon officers had approached during the fervid allocution, and after the... ...o her. ‘I have no wife, but a little pupil. ‘ A Lieutenant Pierson, of the dragoons; Czech white coats, helmets without plumes; an Englishman, nephew ... ...on of blue hussars, and Croat regiment; after which, in the midst of Czech dragoons and German Uhlans 151 George Meredith and blue Magyar light horse... ... officer to the carriage- door, opened it and pointed in. A white-helmeted dragoon rode on each side of the carriage for the remainder of the day. The... ...that Charles Albert had here made his worst move by leaving Vicenza to the operations of the enemy, that he might become master of a point worth- less... ...: a stout wind blew. The ordinary reckoning is based on calms. Without the operation of disturbing elements, the spider-thread would have gently detai...

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...uldn’t get along, and would see these lovely ladies before he stirred. The operation on Mr. Walker’s whiskers being concluded, he was arranging his to... ...ible!” No sooner was Mrs. Crump’s front arranged, during the time of which operation Morgiana sat in perfect contentment looking at the last French fa... ... by her master. As soon as her husband went to the City in the morning her operations began; if he remained away at dinner, her labours still continue... ...lifeless on the floor, he seized a water-jug and poured it over her; which operation pretty soon brought her to herself, and shaking her black ringlet... ...lush, who, by the way, is flush no longer, and Captain Pam, late of the —— Dragoons. Play is said to have been the cause of the quarrel, and the galla... ...d two-and-thirty horses in his stables before a week was over. Pam, of the Dragoons, came out, and instantly got a place as government courier—a place... ...cy grew up between us, and after he left Slaughter House and went into the dragoons, the honest fellow did not forget his old friend, but actually mad... ...es, when she’s here, there’s a whole clan of the Molloys, horse, foot, and dragoons, that are quartered upon us, and eat me out of house and home.” “A...

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...s and chased all the way to the river-bank by a disorderly mob of Austrian Dragoons and Prussian Hussars. The bridge had been mined early in the morni... ...t, in- deed, pleasant to be stamped upon, but the very thoroughness of the operation, implying not only a careful reading, but some real insight into ... ...ways viva voce, which is the outward, obvious difference from the literary operation of that kind, with consequent freshness and vigour which may be l... ... face in gray, fluffy whiskers, and fresh, lo- quacious lips. He commenced operations with an easy going “Let’s see. H’m. Suppose you tell me all you ... ... gold hoop at the lobe of a hairy ear, bent over my sea infancy. The first operation of seamanship I had an opportunity of observ- ing was the boardin...

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... miles in advance of the column, I had been on a foraging-party with a few dragoons, and was returning peaceably to camp, when of a sudden a troop of ... ..., when I, who was on the advanced picket along with O’Gawler of the King’s Dragoons, was made aware of the enemy’s neighbourhood in a very sin- gular ... ... guns, came down with his cavalry on the plains in pursuit of Lake and his dragoons? Then it was that the Englishmen turned upon him; the hardy childr... ...hastened, I say,—although delayed would have been the better word, for the operation of bleaching lasted at least two hours. “How is the prisoner, Gho... ...n fellow of the Irregulars, whom I had summoned to dress me, performed the operation to my satisfaction, invested me with the elegant uniform of my co...

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...Rebecca, having caught her friend’s eye, performed the little hand-kissing operation once more, Mrs. Major O’D., taking the compliment to herself, ret... ...e ex- plosion through the hotel at midnight, and the haw-haws of the great dragoon’s voice. General Tufto heard him from his quar- ters on the first f... ...e last few months of his life, when Love had obtained the mastery over the dragoon, went through the various items of his little catalogue of effects,... ...and saw before her her haggard hussar. He looked as pale as the mid- night dragoon who came to disturb Leonora. Pauline would have screamed, but that ... ...s, the mystical language within— must have been rather wearisome to the ex-dragoon. “How is Mrs. Crawley’s husband?” Lord Steyne used to say to him by... ...haved; Rawdon minor sitting on a box by his father’s side and watching the operation with never-ceasing pleasure. He and the sire were great friends. ... ... promotion was standing at her mistress’s side, quite delighted during the operation, and wagging her head up and down and crying, “Lor, Mum, ’tis bit... ...young Gwendoline and Guinever Mango as bridesmaids; Colonel Bludyer of the Dragoon Guards (eldest son of the house of Bludyer Brothers, Mincing Lane),... ...the pres- ence of all the ladies. He looked her full in the face after the operation, trembling and turning very red, as his wont was when moved. “Y o...

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...er died of wounds in the service, and Matey naturally intended to join the Dragoons; if he could get enough money to pay for mess, he said, laughing. ... ...ture of the dialogue. She grew more spirited. “Mr. Shalders has joined the Dragoons, has he?” “The worthy man has a happy imagination. He goes through... ...apter of conduct. As it was, Weyburn did see the rancour of a raw wound in operation. But he moralized and disapproved; telling himself, truly enough,... ... of women got no further, for the reason that he took small account of the operations of the feelings, to the sole exercise of which he by system cond... ... look back woefully on impediments and fret to fever over the tardiness of operations. A glance at the thing of wrinkles receiving orders to buckle at...

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...he burdens it is often destined to bear.” The Mohicans had suspended their operations about the glim- mering fire to listen; and, when Duncan had done... ...de quartier aux coquins!” cried an eager pursuer, who seemed to direct the operations of the enemy. “Stand firm, and be ready, my gallant Sixtieths!” ... ...ith his finery, and took the part of the bear on myself, in order that the operations might proceed.” “And admirably did you enact the character; the ... ...et beautiful figures, which had been traced over most of his person by the operation of tattooing. Not- withstanding the position of the Huron, he pas... ... assembled to hold a “whispering council.” At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of ... ... the Miami, received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing his dragoons to wheel round his flanks, the Indians were driven from their cove... ...t fight the warriors with “long knives and leather stockings”; meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots. 342 The Last of the Mohicans “This i...

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... the knot: Men, men calling themselves statesmen, declined to perform that operation, because, forsooth, other men objected to have it performed on th... ...he petition that she would repeat the verse. Much struck was this giant ex-dragoon. Ah! how fine! grand! He would rather hear that than any opera: it ... ...eliest throughout the evening, to Emma’s amusement, and to the culprit ex- dragoon’s astonishment; in whom, to tell the truth of him, her sparkle and ... ...e evening that he passed with Sir Lukin Dunstane, when the lachry- mose ex-dragoon and son of Idlesse, had rather more than dined. 57 George Meredith... ...to this and the alliterative cognate theme, equally dear to the gallant ex-dragoon, from which it resulted that Lady Dunstane received satisfactory in... ... shame of alluding to them had blocked her woman’s memory. For one curious operation of the charge of guiltiness upon the nearly guiltless is to make ... ... the Continent; because poor Lady Dunstane was this very day to undergo an operation under the surgeons at Copsley, and she did not wish her mistress ...

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...ind smell?” 162 Ordeal of Richard Feverel Richard nodded, and watched the operations while the farmer filled, and lighted, and began to puff, as if h... ...plucking of the Autumn primrose that Benson had seen: a somewhat different operation from the plucking of the Spring one: very innocent! Our staid eld... ...sweet weather across him. “You seem both to be uncommonly ex- cited by the operations of turtles, rooks, and daws. Why can’t you let them alone?” ... ...d of intrigue through London streets, now proceeded sedately to finish its operations. Ripton was landed at a hotel in Westminster. Ere he was halfway... ...d aside at Richard. Richard observed Clare spread out her fingers that the operation might be the more easily effected. He did duty in the vestry a fe... ...ship’s imme- diate weakness, than Mountfalcon began to plunge like a heavy dragoon in difficulties. He swore by this and that he had come across an an...

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...ll knowing the need—since that unser- viceable right arm always made these operations troublesome to her father. ‘Have you been here all night, Dr. Ma... ...e the paddle of a saurian; Aubrey, climbing as high as he durst, directing operations and making discoveries; I, upon a ledge half-way up, guarding Ma... ...on the plea of want of time, and because she heard that Mr. Elvers, a real dragoon, declared colours to be inappropriate to riflemen. And so he did; b... ...e, ran down, and boldly captured him as he was setting out to see Hector’s operations. He came with a ready smile, and the child was happy throughout ... ...stayed away. I never quite believed you would.’ ‘I had much rather see the operation I shall miss to-mor- row morning. I shall go back by the two o’cl... ...ac- ceded to the representations of the men of law, and declin- ing all co-operation in drawing up a representation for the Home Office, on the plea t...

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...ke of paper-dealing 7 Balzac lived on the best of terms, and their mutual operations, ex- empt from the turmoil of retail business, brought so few ca... ...ven art; and she distinguished more par- ticularly a sub-lieutenant in the dragoons of Saint-Chamans, the young and rich Charles de Gondreville, who a... ...gh Cerizet took the precaution to hide the money necessary for his morning operations in the hollow seat of the chair in which he sat, taking out no m... ...heir returning to the idea of a will? Resolving, therefore, to confine the operation to the sim- plest terms at first, Cerizet summed them up in the m... ...hen the two accomplices were thus in tranquil posses- sion of the field of operations Madame Cardinal hung up her rabbit’s-hair shawl before the windo... ... live in Paris, for he hated England, he would let himself be married. The operation was performed and was successful, and, at the end of three weeks ...

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...t and the motive was, and you have not done enough. If George the vagabond dragoon had any hand in it, he was only an accomplice, and was set on. You ... ...try papers now and then, rising to be prosperous and famous. There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self made like him, but self unmade—all my ... ... could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you an idle dragooning chap who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, exceptin... ...cket’s weapons; shall I positively paral yse Bucket in his next detective operation? And again. If it is blameable in Skimpole to take the note, it i... ...present visit I may prove to be more free than welcome. I have served as a dragoon in my day, and a comrade of mine that I was once rather partial to ...

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...&c. Then F— and I made a rush to get up behind the Queen’s carriage, but a dragoon with his horse almost knocked us over. So we ran by the side as wel... ... such a time; but the idea that the vessel might be lost, the mission- ary operations suspended, &c.; this shot through me in those two minutes! But I... ...ua Lava, the principal is- land of the Banks group, becoming our centre of operations, i.e., that it would be the place where winter school would be c... ...eive a note from you. Though I never doubt of the hearty sympa- thy and co-operation of all Eton friends (how could you do so with such an annual subs... ...l gloom, far from it, there is much to cheer and comfort us. The hearty co-operation of these excellent fellow- workers is such a support, and is brou... ...vely, is the nearest approach that has yet been made to regular missionary operations there. Our short visits in the “Southern Cross,” or my short thr...

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...mbrace Islamism; all the more because the abjuration required a sur- gical operation which I hadn’t any fancy for. Besides, no- body respects a renega... ...e were three invited persons besides the clerks, to wit: an old captain of dragoons, 130 A Start in Life named Giroudeau; Finot, a journalist who mig...

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...e knew what saponacity was till you entered a Turkish bath. When the whole operation is concluded, you are led—with what heartfelt joy I need not say—... ...d Irish Peer, Lord Oldgent (who was distin- guished in the Buckinghamshire Dragoons), having paid a sort of black mail to the Sheikh of Jericho countr... ...he Hadji’s visit. Several of our fellow-travellers submitted to this queer operation, and will carry to their grave this relic of their journey. Some ...

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...he proper number for each column; and after I performed that concentrating operation on your copy, there were three columns less.” “He doesn’t pay for... ...s on sheets of white paper, they look down, forsooth, on an old Captain of Dragoons of the Guard, that retired with a major’s rank after entering ever... ...comes to pick a quarrel with Finot, he finds old Giroudeau, Captain of the Dragoons of the Guard, that set out as a private in a cavalry regiment in t...

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...f the following pages, took leave of his family, to join the regi- ment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commis- sion. It was a melanchol... ... a few years, a troop, he be- lieved, might be reckoned upon in one of the dragoon regi- ments lately returned from Flanders. A hint thus conveyed and... ... overleapt with great agility) Captain Waverley, of Gardiner’s regiment of dragoons, which he must join in their quarters at Dundee in Scotland, in th... ...and a new mantua of genuine French silk, were lost upon a young officer of dragoons, who wore, for the first time, his gold-laced hat, jack-boots, and... ...rd; and though our hero was writhing with pain, would not pro- ceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three ... ...ch was by the bystanders unanimously ascribed to the spells with which the operation had been accompanied. Edward was given to understand, that not on... ... unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the min- strelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once:— There... ...nts and expressions. He cau- tiously avoided any reference to the military operations or civil politics of the time: and to Waverley’s direct inquirie... ...dherents of the house of Stuart; and as a well-founded disbelief in the co-operation of the English Jacobites kept many Scottish men of rank from his ...

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...u can rebel in a generous manner, several things may be ac- quired in that operation,—rigorous mutual fidelity, reti- cence, steadfastness, mild stoic... ...rm: “Have they not,”—or perhaps it was, Has she (the Church) not,—”a black dragoon in every parish, on good pay and rations, horse-meat and man’s-meat... ...se-meat and man’s-meat, to patrol and battle for these things?” The “black dragoon,” which naturally at the moment ruffled the general young imaginati... ...iums, and extirpating or coercing to the due pitch those legions of “black dragoons,” of all varieties and purposes, who patrol, with horse-meat and m... ...d any likeli- hood for Sterling. From the Church his notions of the “black dragoon,” had there been no other obstacle, were sufficient to exclude him.... ...rade to India.” Of course they intended to stir up the public mind into co-operation, whatever their goal or object was: Mr. Crawford, an intimate in ... ..., corrupt and im- perfect around him; and instead of a calm and steady co- operation with all those who are endeavoring to apply the highest ideas as ... ...r; condolence upon that or any such subject might have been a questionable operation, by no means called for! Nay, my own approval, higher than this o... ...nt only. No fighting regiment, with the smallest attempt towards drill, co-operation, com- missariat, or the like unspeakable advantages, could be rai...