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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... ...g a close-up foundation for her manuscript. The hailstorm that was once like artillery against her flimsy enclave now seemed a milder sleet tapping an... ... in their home in a scantily lit morning. The trailer was the fortress from artillery shells, taps, and scrapes. For a moment she listened to its sp... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I... ...side all was being barraged in the cacophony of rap, hip hop, or some other artillery that she had neither knowledge of nor empty labels to place on ...

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...ld be useful to you both. I had rather you did so than that you read it in Greek, though that is very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her ha... ...hat is very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her hand on a little Greek Testament, in which Ethel had been reading it, within her English Bib... ...ough, when he was one of them—and then to enchant the boys by relations of ancient exploits, especially his friend Spencer climbing up, and en- gravin... ...ything but her books! I’ve a great mind to put an end to all the Latin and Greek! She cares for nothing else.” Ethel could little brook injustice, and... ...g up a carcase, and as soon as they have done it, you shall hear me say my ancient geography, and then we will do a nice bit of T asso; and if we have... ...othing could be better news for Dr. May, who had never lost a grain of the ancient school-party-loyalty that is part of the nature of the English gent... ...siasm and expecta- tion. He went to the Grange, as he said, to collect his artillery; primed Flora that she might prime the M. P .; made the willing M...

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...the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of cer tain tribes to their ancient beliefs, etc.—questions which, but for the convenient interventio... ...low outfield lying bathed in the slanting sunshine, and beyond it the distant ancient forest flecked with yellow and melting into the 534 Anna Karenina... ...strange,” he went on. “So we live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire.” The landowner chuckled under his w... ...the hollow chested youth, and occasionally pulling him up. The third, in an artillery uniform, was sitting on a box beside them. A fourth was asleep.... ...had done, and used learned expressions quite inappropriately. The third, the artilleryman, on the contrary, struck Katavasov very favorably. He was a ... ...e Servians want help, too. I’m sorry for them.” 732 Anna Karenina “Yes, you artillerymen especially are scarce there,” said Katavasov. “Oh, I wasn’t ... ...afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two ch...

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... at the mouth and along the brows, even in men. He was tall, and had clear Greek outlines: the lips were locked metal, thin as edges of steel, and his... ... devel- oped nature are seen armed and furious against our mild prevailing ancient mother nature; and the contrast is between our utter wrath and her ... ...ose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it was the Greek Church. ‘The Greek,’ said he, gazing harder at the portrait. Presentl... ...ation, knowing them. Soldiery who have served their term, particularly old artillerymen, would be my choice: young fellows and boys 49 George Meredit... ...ushed by the inveterate coloniser—stationing at threatened points his old ‘artillerymen’ of those days and so it ends, that bard and priest and prince... ... grey grass nods and seems to know the wind and have a whisper with it, of ancient times maybe and most like; about the big chief lying underneath in ... ...implements, while Patrick examined guns and Philip un- sheathed swords. An ancient clay pipe from the bed of the Thames and one from the bed of the Bo... ...ury Dyke opens on Forbery’s flank to support Mattock hardpressed, and this artillery of English Rockney resounds, with a simi- lar object: the ladies ...

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...ake an appearance in this town at a later date, when presumably the heavy artillery would be most needed. Angels are known for their thorough and exp... ...l tongues and received the response; ‘I don’t think I would like to learn Greek or Hebrew, I have enough problems with English’. Stella gave up the ... ...o be put out of their misery. The sausages dried and shrivelled like some ancient artefact. The triangles of toast lay stiff as pavers on the bread ... ... entrance with a sombre Fred Jones trailing behind. “Here comes the heavy artillery!” Snakelex gleefully leapt to Karen’s side before glancing her o... ...s, which usually get ignored. Do you think they like sending in the heavy artillery to repossess your goods? I don’t think so; it’s extra money. Car... ... you always forget. And no, I’m not going to write you have the body of a Greek god and don’t have to bleach your teeth. It doesn’t sound right comi...

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...“I just wish I knew how dressing like a sheep-herding strumpet fits in with Greek myth,” she muttered to the darkness. ***** Daniel wished h... ... poetic spells to run away with themselves. Morgan worried her choice of a Greek myth as her theme might tempt her to do that tonight. She’d made ... ... very little. I was fourteen.” “Mmmm.” He stroked his chin and nodded. “Ancient.” “It was only five years ago. And you didn’t think me so litt... ...alls it the turret,” Daniel said. “He says with a few well-chosen pieces of artillery, we could defend the Connecticut valley from all manner of inv... ...d muddled, her brain bumped through jumbled memories until she extracted an ancient chestnut about one of Rupert’s last successes as Shylock in Merch... ...me meant gapped rock, and it hunched above the sea like the remains of some ancient monster clove in two by an angry god. Nestled in the cleft were ...

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...rne, Captain T ait, hunting pirates and keeping a watch on the Turkish and Greek squadrons in the Archipelago. Captain T ait was a favourite with Sir ... ...ind there is another there to-morrow.’ And sure enough there was an- other Greek dangling the next day. ‘Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, kept the G... ...e Colonel Nosozzo had been killed (I read) while trying to prevent his own artillery from firing on the mob; but in that hell’s cauldron of a distract... ...e first Protestant student was moved to thank his stars: that there was no Greek required for the degree. Little did he think, as he set down his grat... ...is hurly-burly once more. There are awnings all along the ship, and a most ancient, fish-like smell beneath. ‘1 O’CLOCK. – Suddenly a great strain in ... ...k still stands upon a gate, and has left the mark of his strong clutch. Of ancient times when Crete was Crete, not a trace remains; save perhaps in th... ...ar- ing above our heads; old tanks, ruins, and desolation at our feet. The ancient Arsinoe stood here; a few blocks of marble with the cross attest th...

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...te person. Mills did not give me time for a reply. He struck in: “That old Greek was famed as a wanderer -the first historical seaman.” He waved his p... ...Gold nature. At one time as we were climbing a slope absolutely exposed to artillery fire I asked her on purpose, being pro- voked by the way she look... ...“I am no more a great magician, than you are a poor mortal. Y ou have your ancient spells. Y ou are as old as the world. Of us two it’s you that are m... ...grey dress with ample skirts and long corsage yet with infinite style, the ancient as if ghostly beauty of outlines, the black lace, the silver hair, ...

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...betook herself to a room on the ground floor with all the appliances of an ancient schoolroom. Rather dreamily she took out a number of copy-books, an... ...e, and in equal dismay and indignation she came round the point. The light artillery fled at her aspect, and she had to catch Francis’s arm in the act... ...e Mariolatry?” “Yes; but they are very severe on hybrids between Latin and Greek.” “It is not worth while to boggle at trifles when one has an express... ...seems to me like a mason’s refusing to work at a wall with a man who liked Greek architecture when he pre- ferred Gothic!” If Rachel had been talking ... ...if she had accepted it, it would have been a decisive encouragement to her ancient suitor, and Colin saw that he regarded her refusal, in its broad bl... ...re looked in to ask Alick to refer to a verse in the Psalms, quoting it in Greek as well as English, and after the research had been carried to the He...

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...eat of the British Empire, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesome... ...e nation, or parliament, is held. The government of the city is lodged, by ancient grant of the Kings of Britain, in twenty-four aldermen—that is, sen... ...y of Sir Christopher Hatton, son of William, grandson of John, of the most ancient family of the Hattons; one of the fifty gentlemen pensioners to Her... ...tters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he... ...ord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, whose lady composed the following Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I sta... ...wing things worthy of observation:- I. The Royal Library, well stored with Greek, Latin, Italian and French books; amongst the rest, a little one in F... ...ceeded, they struck a terror into the inhabitants, as at the appearance of artillery, and the town was surrendered upon articles; nineteen cannon of a...

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...he limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins æs alienum, another’s brass, for som... ...ver too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silen... ... the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class t... ... life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, no... ...e, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exerc... ...here it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that... ...near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a ...

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..., it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ..., and with- draw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity itself, and is verily marked in... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throt- tling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-sat... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Su... ...val takes his resolution: orders out the Gardes Suisses with two pieces of artillery. The Swiss Guards shall proceed thither; summon that rabble to de... ... rabble to depart, in the King’s name. If disobeyed, they shall load their artillery with grape-shot, visibly to the general eye; shall again summon; ... ...ad it,—as it shall unfold itself, in fire and thunder, of siege, and field-artillery; in the rustling of battle-banners, the tramp of hosts, in the gl...

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...t, it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11-36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ...ey, and withdraw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity it- self, and is verily marked ... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throttling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-satel... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular em- pire of ... ...val takes his resolution: orders out the Gardes Suisses with two pieces of artillery. The Swiss Guards shall proceed thither; sum- mon that rabble to ... ... rabble to depart, in the King’s name. If disobeyed, they shall load their artillery with grape-shot, visibly to the general eye; shall again summon; ... ...d it,—as it shall unfold itself, in fire and thunder, of siege, and field- artillery; in the rustling of battle-banners, the tramp of hosts, in the gl...

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...e one side, and a career of hotels—equivalent to being rammed into monster artillery with a crowd every night, and shot off on a day’s journey through... ... horses are in very good condition.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on pou... ...ok like a victim decked for the sacrifice?—the garlanded heifer you see on Greek vases, in that array of jewellery?” “My dear Clara!” exclaimed the as... ... have to practise much simulation; they are in their way losers like their ancient mothers. It is the palpable and material of them still which they a... ...e flute-playing behind the scenes, imitating the nightingale, enraptured a Greek audience! He would have suspected a motive in Miss Dale’s eager atten... ...ger attentiveness, if the motive could have been con- ceived. Besides, the ancients were not decorous; they did not, as we make our moderns do, write ... ...e me as much Latin as I could take. The fault is mine that it is little.” “Greek?” “A little Greek.” “Ah! And you carry it like a feather.” “Because i... .... “Think.” “She is proof.” “T wice!” 365 George Meredith The word was big artillery. He tried the affectation of a staring stupidity. She might have ... ...cision to be of the chief importance at present. First prime your piece of artillery, my friend.” “The decision is taken, sir.” “Then I will be out of...

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...e crowd at the same moment with one of the bravest colonels of the Guards’ Artillery and the Emperor’s favorite, the Comte de Soulanges. The transient... ..., the Colonel of Cuirassiers was painfully struck by seeing the Colonel of Artillery, whom he knew to be a prudent man, playing at a game which might ... ...omotion to be field-marshal is a certainty.” “The Master does not love the Artillery.” “No, but he adores the nobility, and you are an aristocrat. The... ...e, from whom he reached only this unsatisfactory reply, “ A lady whom the ‘ancient’ Duchesse de Lansac introduced to me.” T urning by chance towards t... ... some time been on bad terms with her, he determined to speak to her. The “ancient” Duchess, seeing the jaunty Baron prowling round her chair, smiled ... ...hat time women wore their sash tied close under the bosom, in imitation of Greek statues, a pitiless fashion for those whose bust was faulty. As he ca...

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...vered. Captain John Peter Avason Kirby, son of a Lincolnshire squire of an ancient stock, was proud of his blood, and claimed descent from a chief of ... ... fear foolishly, entrusted the letters and documents of a story surpassing ancient as well as modern in the wonderment it causes, that would make the ... ...a late riser, break through droves of hunted cloud, directly topping their ancient guardian height, the triple peak and giant of the range, friendlier... ...- plied, ‘was a merchant’s office in Bremen for some months. I learnt more Greek and Latin in Bremen than business. I was invalided home, and then tri... ...ding boots on his road for a livelihood. He is not a bad scholar, he knows Greek enough to like it. He is a Dissenting preacher. When I strike a truis... ...manoeuvres anything may happen, at any instant. Papa will follow the horse-artillery. You know his vanity to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval ... ... his vanity to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. We took the bruised man into our carriage and d... ...ne late afternoon, memorable for the breeding heat in the van of elemental artillery, newsboys waved damp 373 George Meredith sheets of fresh print t...

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...ut on my noble court dress, and thus becomingly re-clothed I pass into the ancient courts of the men of old, where, being lovingly received by them, I... ...ance. Now I say that those dominions which, when acquired, are added to an ancient state by him who acquires them, are either of the same country and ... ...es them as he chooses. But the King of France is placed in the midst of an ancient body of lords, acknowledged by their own subjects, and beloved by t... ...difficult, seeing they have proper ditches and walls, they have sufficient artillery, and they always keep in public depots enough for one year’s eati... ...friends, he often stopped and reasoned with *Philopoemen, “the last of the Greeks,” born 252 B.C., died 183 B.C. 61 Machiavelli them: “If the enemy s...

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...re was the distinction of line which stamps the beauty of the antique; the Greek profile, with the velvet whiteness of women’s faces, and eyes full of... ...hat have come and gone during the last forty years, have tried to tame the ancient families perched aloft like wary ravens on their crag; the said fam... ...he seclusion enforced by political storms, he taught his pu- pil Latin and Greek and some smatterings of natural science. A mother might have modified... ...eccentricity. And in these ways she conjured away the storm with her heavy artillery. When Lucien, obedient to her request, appeared for the first tim... ...s marvelous than the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the... ...mitation, made from rags, was first made at Basel, in 1170, by a colony of Greek refugees, according to some authorities; or at Padua, in 1301, by an ...

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...l—” “Oh! look at the Gorgon!” cried the mother, as the battered head of an ancient doll was displayed over his shoulder by Per- seus, decorated with t... ...ing with them to hear their prayers, Jock, on being called for, repeated a Greek declension with two mistakes in it, Bobus showed a long sum in decima... ...eat parallelism of the present tense of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your ho... ...d had just returned from Asia Minor, and had brought an exquisite bit of a Greek frieze, of which he had become the happy possessor, knowing that Mrs.... ...im a very nice fellow; his wife was the daughter of poor Cartwright of the Artillery, and a sensible ladylike woman as ever he saw.” With a resigned s... ...vie. “I think of your carpet,” said Mary, quaintly. “We always lay down an ancient floorcloth in the bay win- dow before the boys come home,” said Car... ...net was arrayed in a close-fitting pale blue dress, cut in semblance of an ancient kirtle, and with a huge chatelaine, from which massive chains dangl...

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... or EARTH-BORN, that warr’d on JOVE, BRIARIOS or TYPHON, whom the Den By ancient TARSUS held, or that Sea-beast 200 LEVIATHAN, which God of all h... ...is Herarchie, the Orders bright. Nor was his name unheard or unador’d In ancient Greece; and in AUSONIAN land Men call’d him MULCIBER; and how h... ...he Deep. What if we find Some easier enterprize? There is a place 345 (If ancient and prophetic fame in Heav’n Err not) another World, the happy ... ...ch a frown Each cast at th’ other, as when two black Clouds With Heav’ns Artillery fraught, come rattling on 715 Over the CASPIAN, then stand fro... ...VINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine 20 Of my C...

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...uggling up through smoke and thousand fold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunti... ...cessary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can still remember the ancient woman; so silent that some thought her dumb; deaf also you would ... ...king by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to gi... ...quite sickly, and disproportioned to its breadth? We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “mechanically” taught; He brew scarce even mechanic... ...t is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no... ...was trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdr¨ ockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and no... ... many ready built Casemates, wherein the house of Hapsburg might batter with artillery, and with artillery be battered? K¨ onig Ottokar, amid yonder h... ...ished Shadow. Thus, like some wild flaming, wild thundering train of Heaven’s Artillery, does this myste rious MANKIND thunder and flame, in long drawn...

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...n clan—a little nation alone and outlying amongst the mighty monarchies of ancient time, the Megatheria of history. The sails of their rare ships migh... ...in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders. In Cam- bridge nobod... ...elief in their necessity? It is you who are mean—you Normans—not we of the ancient race. Y ou have your vulgar measurement for great things and small.... ...r Lyons or Lion. The beautiful and the brave alike give cognizances to the ancient people: you Sax- ons call yourselves Brown, or Smith, or Rodgers,” ... ...with us. W e passed the demi- lune, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes... ...sed, methinks,” Napoleon said sternly. “I must exercise my old trade as an artilleryman;” and Murat loaded, and the Emperor pointed the only hundred-a... ...Palestine, he had sojourned in Constantinople, and learned the arts of the Greek. He is a cogger of dice, I tell thee—a chanter of horseflesh. He won ... ...UCH. I WA S ALWAYS FOND OF BILLIARDS: and, in former days, at Grogram’s in Greek Street, where a few jolly lads of my ac- quaintance used to meet twic... ...ot great people: when he came to be a gentleman, he had to learn Latin and Greek, and had a deal of lost time to make up for, on going to school. 366...

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...n, was slain on Castlewood Tower, being engaged there both as preacher and artilleryman. This resolute old loyalist, who was with the King whilst his ... ...ing made a great cawing. At the foot of the hill was a river, with a steep ancient bridge crossing it; and be- yond that a large pleasant green flat, ... ...s indeed—it’s treason, I would lay a wager,” cries the lawyer. “Egad! it’s Greek to me,” says Captain Westbury. “Can you read it, little boy?” “Y es, ... ...eeding, and many accomplishments, that he was not. I am of one of the most ancient families in the empire; I have had my education at a famous school,... ... eagerly about their progress 93 Thackeray in books. Tom had learned some Greek and Hebrew, besides Latin, in which he was pretty well skilled, and a... ...ction, that it was all her guests could do to refrain from laughing in her ancient face. She asked Harry what his profession was to be; and my lord, s... ...f the most beautiful scenes of nature which I ever witnessed. The foot and artillery, following after the horse as quick as possible, crossed the Rhin... ...glish, Dutch, Danes, and German auxilia- ries took their way. The foot and artillery under General Churchill passed the Neckar, at Heidelberg; and Esm... ...h the horrors of war. These are indicated rather than described; as in the Greek tragedies, that, I dare say, you have read (and sure there can be no ...

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...ppears to have been that printing was first carried on in England in an ancient chapel converted into a printing house, and the title h... ... to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting at traction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temp tations. This being acqu... ...modern languages which are deriv’d from it; and yet we do not begin with the Greek, in order more eas ily to acquire the Latin. It is true that, if y... ...u arrive well before Duquesne, with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place not yet compleatly fortified, and as we hear with n... ...iography of Benjamin Franklin 131 ers; so that all the waggons, provisions, artillery, and stores were left to the enemy. The general, being wounded,... ...had, but we paraded about twelve hundred well looking men, with a company of artillery, who had been furnished with six brass field pieces, which they...

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... hills, hills woo the valleys plain. 16 Jerusalem Delivered L Two hundred Greeks came next, in fight well tried, Not surely armed in steel or iron st... ... skirmish still; LI Tatine their guide, and except Tatine, none Of all the Greeks went with the Christian host; O sin, O shame, O Greece accurst alone... ...s old, He fled alone, by many an unknown coast, O’er Aegean Seas by many a Greekish hold, Till he arrived at the Christian host; A noble flight, adven... ...went on with lucky speed, And reared rams their horned fronts advance, The Ancient Foe to man, and mortal seed, His wannish eyes upon them bent askanc... ...hat discourteous knight, His heart unworthy is, shootress divine, Of thine artillery to feel the might; To wreak thine ire behold me prest and fit, I ... ...X “I think,” quoth he, “on this distressed town, The aged Queen of Judah’s ancient land, Now lost, now sacked, spoiled and trodden down, Whose fall in...