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...determine the extent that regulators and commercial incumbents can constrain amateur innovation, which has been re- sponsible for much of what we now ... ...es, 16 pioneered additional uses of leisure time, and existing games—such as chess and checkers—soon featured the computer itself as a worthy opponent... ...tation and risk- taking. 22 These backwater environments cultivated forms of amateur tinkering that became central to major software development. Both... ... of the large generic processor—and began a revolution that affected not only amateur tinkerers, but PC owners who had no technical skills, since they ... ...ng power as a PC. 103 It is networked, so users can play games against other players around the world, at least if they are using Xboxes, too. The bus... ...puts. Compared with a board game, a dollhouse is thus a more generative toy. Chess, Connect Four Many variants on traditional games checkers involve c... ...nd people slow down rather than risk damaging their cars. Likewise, most DVD players have Macrovision copy pro- tection that causes a signal to be emb... ... Dilemma Revisited, 28 A. M. R. 238, 239 (2003). 17. See Ross Rubin, Players Scramble for Consumer Market, I H, Sept. 1, 1996; St...

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...red the daylight into a dirty blue. A 60 J.Cross/Artemis couple of dozen players sat around assorted sized card tables with green felt that drap... ...ottle of DOS XXs stood on the table like a lone green King in the center of a chessboard. Brand walked over to the table and stood there without say... ...No problema," Cardona said, grinning wide and flashing his teeth. "We are not amateurs, nor are we stupid. If you find our system has flaws, I would ... ... Latinos. You should know that," Cardona said feeling as if he were playing a chess game, and losing. "The choice is yours," Brand said coolly, and... ...e he wants to do something,’ Radcliff fired back. “But not this way. Not with amateurs...I'm sorry Senator." "No need to apologize. It's true. I am... ...lso include within the Asian market, the Tongs and Triads. But they are minor players, primarily in distribution.” "You're not including the United... ... have never trusted you, Senor Branderos. You play both sides, like a game of chess.” “That’s his job,” Cardona interjected. “And you, Cardona, a... ... and learn. This drug business, we have chosen, is a very complicated one. The players all play by their own rules. But there is no place for bad jud... ...s question. "We planned this attack for weeks, but you beat us to it. You are amateurs, but good amateurs. I am sorry about your friends, but we coul...

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...ondly, in our attitude toward athletics. There is danger that not only the players who partici- pate in the games, but those' who sit on the bleachers... ...ed and one error. Two double plays occurred, in one of which four Williams players fig- ured. Warren took the batting honors by securing three hits fr... ...on of asBistant track manager. FRIDAY, MAY 8 2.30 p. in.^—Williams-Amherst chess match, Amherst. SATURDAY, MAY 4 ' 2.00 p. m.—Williams - Brown track m... ...mands on the Will- iams team, weakened as it is by the loss of two leading players. A jieculiar feature of the list is that the principal period of th... ...e not di- rectly in front of the conjuror, yet it was a good exhibition of amateur legerdemain. The favorites in Part II were evenly distributed. Nobl... ...hat" makes wholesome re- marks on the present local mani- festation of the amateur spirit in athletics, and " Sanctum " wag- gishly convinces us that ... ...e Theatre,"and after the first few minutes oast aside entirely his initial amateur- ish manner. His encore, a selec- tion displaying his ability at ne... ...t Hopkins returned to Williamstowu on Friday after- noon. A meeting of the chess club for organization will be held this afternoon at 4 p. m. " An iro... ...cooperation ie imperative for ihe more eflficient operation of the Bureau. Chess Club Officers A meeting of the chess club was held in Jesup Hall Mond...

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.... He was dressed in his usual red satin smoking jacket; a half played game on a chess board separated them. "Who are you playing the game with?" Ala... ...etting the stage, scripting every scene, and directing it with a deft hand. The players only acted out the parts that he had created. Tonight he wou... ... raised Insider Trading to an art form that made even Ivan Boetsky look like an amateur. After all, Boetsky got caught. Pierce believed everyone ha... ...ve Environmental Press Conference with a united front. After all, we are all co-players in the same game and our concerns, as yours, are for the sur... ...." "Get to the point, Bobby." "Let's start with a few assumptions. Who are the players? The partners, if you will. I peg them to be Pierce, Cox, Al... ...ld not be deterred. And Pierce was intractable. Each event was like a move on a chess­ board, always demanding a counter move that ultimately would ... ... into high gear. He loved the thought of assaulting the citadel. In his game of chess he had bought off his oppo­ nent's most important pieces. The b... ...d as FBI immediately follow Cox and the two blondes out of the restaurant. "How amateurish," Taranto thought, and then left by the rear exit next to... ...nd. Maybe, this was going to be easier than he expected. After all, Hawk was an amateur. Still, Taranto was right, he would not under estimate the e...

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...lf: if you can take ordinary people from any walk of life and put them into an amateur theatrical production, and create an entire cast of fictional ... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ...ss you make money from it: it is worthless. Why do you think there are so few amateur sports compared to professional sports? Because when you make... ...red to professional sports? Because when you make winning the first priority… amateur sport stop being fun. People find that when they get no posit... ...that if you bowl dance, ski, sail, camp, swim, roller-skate, play volleyball, chess, bridge, and play music. You have to join fifteen different cul... ...tted around. How many board games are based upon the idea of decapitation? Chess, Checkers, Chinese checkers, card games, the throwing of dice, t...

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...silence—not even hostility! The game was up to 21 Kipling them; the other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, a... ... time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At the back of the Infantry barracks a soldier, his ca... ...ca inside out; he could quote poetry and the Koran all day long. He played chess—you don’t know what that meant to me -like a mas- ter. We used to tal... ...ool,” Penfentenyou almost wept, “do you pretend that these banana-fingered amateurs at home are grown up?” “You poor, serious, pagan man,” I retorted,... ...ut of the drive, and the air was gay with the merry outcries of the tennis players. As twilight drew on they all went away, and I was left alone with ...

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...ersity. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Essays of T ravel by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I—THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT THE SECOND CABIN I FIRST ENCOUNTERED my f... ...an express her surprise that ‘the ship didna gae doon,’ as she saw some one pass her with a chess-board on the holy day. Some sang Scottish psalms. Ma... ..., heaving deck. We had many fine-weather diversions to beguile the time. There was a single chess-board and a single pack of cards. Sometimes as many ... ...nd began to take on colour from the wind. I was kept hard at work making cigarettes for one amateur after another, and my less than moderate skill was... ... him throughout the voyage; and about mealtime you might often find him up to the elbows in amateur cook- ery. His was the first voice heard singing a... ...l occupy an hour. It will be found to set an excellent edge on this diversion if one of the players shall, every day or so, write a report of the oper... ...pany of actors able, as you will be told, to act. This last you will take on trust, for the players, unlike the local sheet, confine themselves to Ger... ...th everything, from the Quarterly to the Sunday at Home. Grand tournaments are organised at chess, draughts, billiards and whist. Once and again wande...

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...sister. To his efforts we owe the famous rose Giguet, known so well to all amateurs. This old man, who had now passed into the state of a do- mestic f... ...destiny of Simon Giguet. By eight o’clock four card-tables, each with four players, were under way. The smaller salon and the din- ing-room were full ... ...for I dare say you will remember that I always distinguished between organ-players and organists, a superior order of nobility the title of which is n... ...e going to bed, only to find my young gentleman perfectly well and playing chess with one of the nurses. On leaving the school I found the rain had ce... ...was that of a former functionary of the upper police, who continued, as an amateur, to do part of his former busi- ness, going daily to each minister ... ... least, the peer of France of- fered his arm to Madame de Camps, while the amateur iron- master offered his to the countess. “But Nais!” said Monsieur...

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...bserved the of ficer, with as much indifference as if the principals were chess men, and the seconds players. ‘I think we may,’ replied Mr. Snodgras... ...as much indifference as if the principals were chess men, and the seconds players. ‘I think we may,’ replied Mr. Snodgrass; who would have assented t... ... for Pope Joan, and the The Pickwick Papers 70 other for whist. The whist players were Mr. Pickwick and the old lady, Mr. Miller and the fat gentlema... ... jackets, and white trousers—a costume in which they looked very much like amateur stone masons— were sprinkled about the tents, towards one of which ... ... to do the same kind office for the hitherto uncon quered Podder. Several players were stationed, to ‘look out,’ in different parts of the field, and... ... his piece in the position required, and the party moved on again; the two amateurs marching with reversed arms, like a couple of privates at a royal ...

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... A Nightly Patrol. IN TEN MINUTES Mazarin and his party were traversing the street “Les Bons Enfants” behind the theatre built by Richelieu expressly ... ...ing.” La Ramee was going out. He stopped, however, at the door for an instant. “Whom does your highness wish me to send to you?” 157 Dumas “Any one, ... ... 157 Dumas “Any one, except Grimaud.” “The officer of the guard, then, with his chessboard?” “Yes.” Five minutes afterward the officer entered and the... ...membered him. It is true that she had not, perhaps, been scupulously faithful to him, but she had remembered him; that was something. So the duke had ... ...er Another shot of a carbine was heard. It was Musqueton, who was obeying his master’s command. “On! on!” cried D’Artagnan; “all goes well! we have th... ... 340 Twenty Years After of slate and passing from that exercise to that of the trum- pet, which he counterfeited quite naturally with his mouth in a m... ... Senor Perez seems to me very reasonable, and for my part I agree to it. We will invoke the remembrance of that poor De Winter, for whom he seemed to ...

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... the merits of Cosmoramas, views of Constantinople, marionettes, automatic chess-players, and performing dogs who would pick you out the prettiest wom... ...erits of Cosmoramas, views of Constantinople, marionettes, automatic chess-players, and performing dogs who would pick you out the prettiest woman in ... ...and looked across at Camusot, who just then entered the opposite box. That amateur was a worthy silk-mercer of the Rue des Bourdonnais, stout and subs... ...r was Pietro Aretino, a great Italian. Kings went in fear of him, as stage-players go in fear of a newspaper to-day.” “What did you do to the Matifat ... ...ff the stage, Cinti, Pasta, Garcia, Levasseur, and two or three celebrated amateurs in society not excepted. Lucien saw the Marquise, her cousin, and ...

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..., who thrust printed cards into your hand, and offer to bid. Old women and amateurs have invaded the upper apart- ments, pinching the bed-curtains, po... ...ous days. Certain of the best wines (which all had a great character among amateurs in the neighbourhood) had been purchased for his master, who knew ... ...s flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierce excite- ment of doubt, hope, and pleasure! What trem... ... excel in the handling of either. Now Crawley, from being only a brilliant amateur, had grown to be a consummate master of billiards. Like a great Gen... ...n and to her. He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real ... ...go’s own set at the Pineries was not so fine,” Mr. Pestler remarked. These chess-men were the delight of Georgy’s life, who printed his first letter i... ...g with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and play- ing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with these simple amusements th...

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...-d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madden, abo... ...to the provoking indifference, or more provoking criticism, of fashionable amateurs. ‘During the summer of my year,’ says Dudley, ‘I am as free as a w... ...which they chose to address each other, set them down to a pensive game at chess, and very dutifully went to tease papa, who was still busied with his... ... dutifully went to tease papa, who was still busied with his drawings. The chess-players, you must ob- serve, were placed near the chimney, beside a l... ...ully went to tease papa, who was still busied with his drawings. The chess-players, you must ob- serve, were placed near the chimney, beside a little ... ...representing what it might have puzzled the artist himself to explain. ‘Is chess a very interesting game, papa?’ ‘I am told so,’ without honouring me ... ...all importance, if we were to judge from the anxiety expressed both by the players and bystanders. We walked round the little lake, supported by Hazle... ... in high order, the claret excellent, and the learned counsel, a professed amateur in the affairs of the table, did distinguished honour to both. I am...

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...s flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierce excite- 48 V anity Fair – V olume Two ment of doubt... ... excel in the handling of either. Now Crawley, from being only a brilliant amateur, had grown to be a consummate master of billiards. Like a great Gen... ...n and to her. He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real ... ...go’s own set at the Pineries was not so fine,” Mr. Pestler remarked. These chess-men were the delight of Georgy’s life, who printed his first letter i... ...g with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and play- ing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with these simple amusements th... ...ety. During the youth of his sons, Lord Steyne, who was a good scholar and amateur casuist, had no better sport in the evening after dinner in the cou...

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...or the matter of that), really, as an artist—” He laughed. “It’s so damned amateurish.” “But the other thing,” said the sleepless man irritably, “the ... ...id had been of singular service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. I... ... of singular service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. In fact, all... ...n; never was wilder fir- ing in the history of warfare. It was a battle of amateurs, a hideous experimental warfare, armed rioters fighting armed riot...

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...f red brick in the residential district out beyond the brickfields towards Chessington. The population doubled again and doubled again, and be- came p... ...imentalist, rather a po- seur, he affected a concise emphatic styl, played chess very well, betrayed a belief in will-power, and earned Britten’s se- ... ...hich was quite usual in those days—and returned from her experiences as an amateur flower girl with clear and original views about the problem—which i... ...ly have to have very much of a common training. We consider our- selves as amateur unpaid precursors of such a class.” … The vision they displayed for... ...o voce. Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest- looking persons—bulging with doc... .... Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest- looking persons—bulging with documents...

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...ste and most undoubted promise. The stock- in-trade requisite to set up an amateur in this department of busi- ness is very slight, and easily got tog... ... before him, looking in at his teeth, with the nice scrutiny of a dentist. Amateurs in the physi- ognomical and phrenological sciences roved about him... ...ravel by, and some to spare. Yoho, beside the village green, where cricket-players linger yet, and every little in- dentation made in the fresh grass ... ...rson can no more quarrel without an adversary, than one person can play at chess, or fight a duel. ‘I hoped you would be glad to shake hands with an o...

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... difficulty in this question is not simply the difficulty of a complicated chess problem, for example, in which the whole tangle of considerations doe... ...d work, into patriotic effort, into artistic enthusi- asms, into games and amateur employments, and an enor- 160 A Modern Utopia mous proportion of t... ...hey have not such flamboyant qualities then they are tepid and ineffectual players. Nor may the samurai do personal services, except in the matter of ...

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... the mysteries of the all-important game by comments and criticisms on the players. As soon as Mark and Adela had come out conquerors, Ursula was call... ...Annaple’s lightness and dexterity rendered her the best of the lady tennis-players, and the less practised Ursula found herself defeated in the match,... ...one, and behold he is a teetotaller, and 222 Nuttie’s Father besides that amateur nurse-maid, parlour-maid, kitchen- maid, etc. etc.—’ ‘What bailiff ... ...a rubber, or play piquet, for he excelled in these arts, and still more in chess, and an evening with Mr. Dutton was quite a red-letter time with Nutt...

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...inst walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might. On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, so... ...“ Ah, cousin!” said Richard. “Strange, indeed! All this waste ful, wanton chess playing is very strange. To see that com posed court yesterday jogg... ...ng. “He knows Mrs. Jellyby,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “He is a mu sical man, an amateur, but might have been a professional. He is an artist too, an amateu... ...pains to counterplot when there is no plot, and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary. It is a source of much gratification to Mr. Gu...

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...inst walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might. On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, so... ...“ Ah, cousin!” said Richard. “Strange, indeed! All this waste ful, wanton chess playing is very strange. To see that com posed court yesterday jogg... ...ng. “He knows Mrs. Jellyby,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “He is a mu sical man, an amateur, but might have been a professional. He is an artist too, an amateu... ...pains to counterplot when there is no plot, and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary. It is a source of much gratification to Mr. Gu... ...n artist, sir?” “No,” returned Mr. Skimpole. “A perfectly idle man. A mere amateur.” 597 Bleak House – Dickens Sir Leicester seemed to approve of thi... ...ight have done great things, but which has paused at the level of a clever amateur—he holds himself aloof from that dear solace. Mrs. Bucket is depend... ...earest point glancing through a meadow by the cheerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from a white...

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...delayed by the illness in the spring, and the school had lost several good players at the end of the half year; but, on the other hand, the holidays b... ...gs of Aubrey’s home life. 270 The Trial The rest were reduced to silence, chess, books, and mis- chief, except when a treat of facetious small talk w... ... of only setting questions that one can answer.’ ‘Not your trade, but your amateur work!’ said Mr. Cheviot, again exploding, and leaving Ethel to feel... ...dham?’ ‘I shall not twirl my thumbs. I shall make out a problem on my ship chess-board.’ ‘That’s the boy who was sent from the Antipodes, that he migh...

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...ion of the Debate between the Her- alds: a courtesy from the expert to the amateur only too uncommon in these days. KNOX. – Knox, the second in order ... ... have a true command of the art of words, but for ped- dling, professional amateurs, that these pointed occasions are most useful and inspiring. As th... ... sky full of birds. A room of green tapestry, showing a knight and lady at chess in a pavilion. Another green room, with shepherdesses in a trellised ... ... Mountains. The company hunted and went on pleasure-par- ties; they played chess, tables, and many other games. What we now call the history of the pe... ... the juggler; or it might be three high English minstrels; or the two men, players of ghitterns, from the kingdom of Scot- land, who sang the destruct... ...nd Cooke. This was when Jehan Negre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and ... ...Negre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and his intimates; or when Baudet ... ...o many instruments and pass judgment in so many fields of art, remained an amateur. It is not given to any one so keenly to enjoy, with- out some grea...

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... and, before the end of a month, he so completely turned the tables on the amateur pugilists of Melbourne that Skene one day took occasion to remark t... ... for it.” “I may say I am in the profession already. Y ou don’t call me an amateur, do you?” “Oh, no,” said Skene, soothingly; “not so bad as that. Bu... ... straw hat, a canary-colored scarf, and a suit of a minute black-and-white chess-board pattern, with a crimson silk handkerchief overflowing the breas... ...hampion. T o be sure. Well, Miss Goff, I congratulate you. It is not every amateur that can brag of having shown a professional to a back seat.” Alice... ...speare’s history. He knew that he could find in the provinces many veteran players who knew every gesture and inflection of voice associated by tradit... ...ty, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities out of the questio...

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...e outgrown the old place in every direction, and have got a spick-and-span chess-board of a villa out on the Minsterham road.” “They have not more chi... ... Emilia vaguely. “Well, I decline to walk in the steps of the police as an amateur! How about the Dicksons?” “Drifted away no one knows where. That’s ... ...n Hood’. However, I should like to see it well got up for once, if only by amateurs. Miranda has a capital song by Uncle Bill, made for Francie’s sopr... ...le a year or two ago. Some one told me they were wonderfully effective for amateurs.” “That explains the acquaintance with Lady Merrifield,” said Mrs.... .... THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQUE UE UE UE UE Your honour’s players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Taming... ...me to give special love to Francie, and say he is glad that Mona’s game of chess was played out with a good sub- stitute for Ferdinand. These are his ...

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... the question of the immortality of the soul a bit more to heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious construction of a new machine. Besides t... ...s!” “Well, so you’re content with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, and one a very pretty one—a pawn opening. I’ll show it yo... ...k at it. To muddle up two trades is Part V — Chapter 2 421 the error of the amateur; I’m not one of their number.” “How happy I shall be when I hear ... ...o much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced... ...s, knowing nothing about art, like all those wealthy Russians, but posing as amateurs and connoisseurs. “Most likely they’ve already looked at all the... ...dinner they sat on the terrace, then they proceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a tightly d... ...so tired that she sat down with Princess Varvara and simply looked on at the players. Her partner, Tushkevitch, gave up playing too, but the others ke... ...t. Veslovsky played worse than the others. He was too eager, but he kept the players lively with his high spirits. His laughter and out cries never p... ...tners were playing for small stakes; the divan room, where they were playing chess, and Sergey Ivanovitch was sitting talking to somebody; the billiar...

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...at he did nothing at home but walk up and down the room whistling, or play chess with his old foot- man. People said, too, that he drank heavily. And ... ...itching!’ Then it was they noticed me… . A couple of young milksops, local amateurs of the scenic art, I presume, looked at me, exchanged 103 The Sch... ...oors, quivering and cutting across the shadows cast by the lantern and the players… . On the other side of the thin partition that divided the coach-h...

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... deal was coming round again, and still Death’s card had not come out. The players held their respiration, and only breathed by gasps. The Prince rece... ... took his leave. He passed through the smoking-room, where the bulk of the players were still consuming cham- pagne, some of which he had himself orde... ... several hours on end in private, and most likely dangerous, af- fairs? An amateur might have lost him by accident, but if Rudolph and Jerome were thr... ... was a graceful al- though a timid cavalier; he had a pronounced taste for chess; and nature had sent him into the world with one of the most engaging... ...ce. So! Touch glasses with me. That is better. I fear, sir, you must be an amateur.” And the stranger pronounced these last words with a smile of pecu...

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... of this vast me- tropolis—the idle, the curious, the brutal, the hardened amateur in spectacles of wo, and the benign philanthropist who frequents su... ...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ...hought you would de- posit your stakes by return of post, (as they play at chess through the post-office,) that Kate does the trick, that she gets dow... ...ated himself very obligingly by my side. I was at that time a flo- rist—an amateur, I mean, from the passion I had for flow- ers; upon learning which,...

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...hich Dick had learned while painting the scenes of an itinerant company of players); there is nothing in whole pages but mere chat and dialogue.” “The... ...s copy-book, which he rolled up so as to serve for the darkened tube of an amateur. I fancy my expressions of en- thusiasm had not been in proportion ... ...tlemen in wrought nightcaps and furred gowns execute like so many games at chess, and displace a treasurer or lord commissioner as they would take a r...

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... only his Maison-Bouche, and Valetaille without end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, f... ...less innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spiritual Guidanc... ...ie en trois actes et en prose; jouee le 14 Juillet 1788, par une societe d’amateurs dans un Chateau aux envi- rons de Versailles; par M. l’Abbe de Ver... ...imself, and more interesting to us than Hoyle’s or Philidor’s best Game of Chess, let us, nevertheless, O Reader, entirely omit;—and has- ten to remar... ...f La Lune and other Heights; shifting and shoving,—seemingly in some dread chess-game; which may the Heavens turn to good! The Miller of Valmy has fle...

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...hens the disease,” said the Rector’s wife, much too well-born not to be an amateur in medicine. “Everything depends on the constitution: some people m... ...ou will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure,” she said, when the whist-players were settled. “We are very stupid, and you have been used to someth... ...I am not so brazen as you.” “Bah! that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish. If you were an artist, you would think of Mistress Second-Cousi... ...ness and all but exhausted in the act of covering your bit of canvas. I am amateurish if you like: I do not think that all the universe is straining t... ...irect and indirect, to be carried on. Will could not like to leave his own chessmen in the heat of a game; and any candidate on the right side, even i... ...an evident selec- tion of statements, as if they had been so many moves at chess. 482 Middlemarch Meanwhile Bulstrode had determined on his move, and... ...eal of Middlemarch company; and several lookers-on, as well as some of the players, were betting with animation. Lydgate was playing well, and felt co...

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...hens the disease,” said the Rector’s wife, much too well born not to be an amateur in medicine. “Everything depends on the constitution: some people m... ...u will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure,” she said, when the whist players were settled. “We are very stupid, and you have been used to someth... ...I am not so brazen as you.” “Bah! that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish. If you were an artist, you would think of Mistress Second Cousi... ...ness and all but exhausted in the act of covering your bit of canvas. I am amateurish if you like: I do not think that all the universe is straining t... ...irect and indirect, to be carried on. Will could not like to leave his own chessmen in the heat of a game; and any candidate on the right side, even i... ...s an evident selection of statements, as if they had been so many moves at chess. Meanwhile Bulstrode had determined on his move, and he said, with ga... ...eal of Middlemarch company; and several lookers on, as well as some of the players, were betting with animation. Lydgate was playing well, and felt co...