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...r, they instantly forgot what they were doing and hurried over to the big rock where the Storyteller sat. The scarlet light of the three moons glis- ... ...ful, yellow teeth. Before long they had formed a semicircle around the big rock. Late- comers jostled for a place. Those who ended up at the back lash... ... opened his eyes and looked up at the Storyteller. The old man sat on his rock cross-legged as always, but now with his head clasped deep in his han... ...space. The entire planet is as blue as a Bloon, and it’s full of craters, domes and hills, which make it a great place to play hide-and-seek. ‘It’s... ...hat if life was just one big Story?’ Theo and Bozo wheeled around to see a balding man in a denim jacket standing on a soapbox. His skin was tanned a... ...e saw 113 Cairo a short, kind-looking man with clean-shaven cheeks and a balding head. Jamillah paused in recognition and Omar laid a comforting ha... ... very nice of her, all the same.’ The stepladder creaked again and Omar’s balding head came into view. He smiled a little too broadly as he stepped ...

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...f. He was a Lascar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British ... ...he’ d leave us like a shot. He was yarning away to me about praying to the dome of St. Paul’s when he was in London.” “He told me that the first time ... ...mboos, and a grey gnarled peepul overshadowing a Hindoo shrine, from whose dome floated a tattered red flag. The holy man whose sum- mer resting-place... ... Spruce, with sumach and little juniper bushes, and the other half is grey rock and boulder and moss, with green streaks of brake and swamp; but the h... ... tipped the coupe over in a hidden brook before she came out on a ledge of rock where all the horses had gathered, and were switching flies. The Deaco... ...d disappeared in a narrow- mouthed cave. It was an insolently open road, a domestic highway, beaten without thought of concealment. “The beggar might ... ...they were pensioners of the Governor’s bounty. A grey-bearded man, fat and bald- headed, his one garment a green-and-yellow loin-cloth, saw the Haliot...

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...cy, looking very wise, and rather suspicious. She certainly had sufficient domes- tic reasons for disliking the propensity; ‘I know he used; and when ... ...catcherd and the doctor were on very familiar terms as regarded her little domestic inconveniences. ‘Tell Sir Roger I am here, will you?’ said the doc... ...advocated by Sir Roger, and his motto of course pro- claimed the merits of domestic peace and quiet. ‘Peace abroad and a big loaf at home’, was conseq... ...Oh, I suppose so; oh yes, oh yes; ah me! ah me! ah me!’ And then she began rocking herself backwards and for- wards on her chair, with her apron up to... ...at to do with him, never! never!’ And with such sorrowful wailings she sat rocking herself through the long night, every now and then comforting herse... ...out as full as you can hold it, Scatcherd. ’ ‘Try me; try me! my hand is a rock; at least at holding liquor.’ And then he drained the contents of the ... ...so taken him, he would have been very much surprised indeed. He was rather bald; not being, as people say, quite so young as he was once. His exact ag...

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... cataloguing the colors by their scientific names;— as a result, you get the bald fact of the sunset, but you don’t Life on the Mississippi Mark T ... ...scorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic ... ... the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and... ...hel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo oop! S... ... of my life that I did not do it. It was bitter now to look abroad over this domed and steepled metropolis, this solid expanse of bricks Life on the M... ...ly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. Under a glass French clock dome, large bouquet of stiff flowers done in corpsy white wax. Pyramidal ... ...sible, and envy the old stagers in the like degree. And how these complacent baldheads would swell, and brag, and lie, and date back—ten, fifteen, twe... ...ilence that would result on the in stant. And imagine the feelings of those bald heads, and the exultation of their recent audience when the ancient ... ...nappeasable. “And so we glide along; in due time encountering those majestic domes, the mighty Sugar Loaf, and the sublime Maiden’s Rock—which latter,...

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...mur of the Nile as it raced round a basalt-walled bend and foamed across a rock-ridge half a mile up- stream. It was as though the brown weight of the... ... all that time the Nile had never spared them. Rapid had fol- lowed rapid, rock rock, and island-group island-group, till the rank and file had long s... ...ut of square to rescue a comrade than over twenty generals slaving even to baldness at the gross details of transport and commissariat. He had met at ... ...when the whale- boat in which they had found a berth chose to hit a hidden rock and rip out half her bottom-planks. Now they were sitting on the sand-... ...s he has been going out of evenings. I must look to this.’ He rang for the bald-headed old housekeeper, whom nothing could astonish or annoy. ‘Beeton,... ... did in the long win- ter twilights, the remembrance of that little act of domestic authority and his coercion with a hearth- brush of the smoky drawi... ...nd curious facsimiles at ten guineas each. What shall I try this time? The domes- tic life of the Nilghai?’ ‘Hasn’t got any.’ ‘The undomestic life of ... ... discovered that he was painting the face of the Melancolia on a revolving dome ribbed with millions of lights, and that all his wondrous thoughts sto...

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...es during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon 16 The Talisman that grea... ...n my land cold often converts the water itself into a substance as hard as rock. Let us speak of this no longer, for the thoughts of the calm, clear, ... ...ed the steeds to go loose, confident that their interest, as well as their domesticated habits, would prevent their straying from the pure water and f... ...ourney, which he did by observing minute marks and bearings of the distant rocks, to a ridge of which they were gradually approaching. For a little ti... ...wars, whether waged betwixt England and Scotland, or amongst the vari- ous domestic factions which then tore the former country asunder, and in all ha... ...dornment, had been applied by Sir Kenneth to the accommodation of his sick domestic. In an outward part of the hut, which yet was within the range of ... ...’rt right,” he said, “for, by the God That sits enthron’d on high, Charles Baldwin, and his fellows twain, This day shall surely die.” Chatterton. ON ... ... of the winter’s breeze. His single lock of hair streamed upwards from his bald and shaven head, as if some genie upheld him by it; and indeed it seem...

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...res, the lights of the long streets, lights that indicated huge squares of domestic comfort, lights that hung high in air. No dark- ness would ever se... ...med emphatically, “Damn!” Chapter II U ncomfortable as the night, with its rocking move ment, and salt smells, may have been, and in one case undoubte... ...ughby, whose discomfort as he listened was manifested by a slight movement rocking of his body, said awkwardly, “Oh, surely, Helen, a little religion ... ...showed that she belonged to the lower orders; neverthe- less she took up a rock-like position, looking about her to see that no gentry were near befor... ...e earth lay now beneath the autumn sun, and the whole of England, from the bald moors to the Cornish rocks, was lit up from dawn to sunset, and showed... ...find that she has spent her day in calling, music, play with the children, domestic duties—what you will; her illusions have not been destroyed. She g... ...culating. She had sighted two sinister grey vessels, low in the water, and bald as bone, one closely following the other with the look of eyeless beas... ...k bars. Mountains whose sides were flushed with red, but whose crowns were bald, rose as a pinnacle, half-concealing another pinnacle behind it. The h... ... her hair. Ages have consecrated this hour, and the most ma- jestic of all domestic actions, to talk of love between women; but Miss Warrington being ...

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...wl from every man. She was held to have a very fine manner, and to embody the domestic virtues and the graces of the drawing room; to be a shining proo... ...laced themselves in the chairs that were ranged along the sides of the long, bald room, in which they ended by producing the similitude of an enormous... ...r Prance, who by this time had begun to appear to Ransom more susceptible of domestication, as if she had been a small forest creature, a catamount or... ... glance that the whole circle mightn’t have observed. Even in the privacy of domestic intercourse he had phrases, excuses, explanations, ways of putti... ...he moral incisions of that evening. It seemed implied in the very place, the bald bareness of Tarrant’s temporary lair, a wooden cottage, with a rough... ...ugh she had a consciousness of sitting down somewhere—the object creaked and rocked beneath her— and of the table at tea being covered with a cloth st... ...ual patches of ice and snow; the desolate suburban horizons, peeled and made bald by the rigour of the season; the gen eral hard, cold void of the pr... ...ering windows, bristled with the raw delicacy of April, and, in spite of its rockwork grottoes and tunnels, its pavilions and statues, its too numerou... ...awls, were seen waiting for him, as if he had been the doctor, on horse hair rocking chairs, in the little public parlour; others peered vaguely out o...

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...pictured it. We were now on those great plains which stretch unbroken to the Rocky Mountains. The country was flat like Holland, but far from being du... ...ugh these sad mountains, or 24 Across the Plains over the main ridge of the Rockies, which is a fair match to them for misery of aspect. Hour after h... ...to admit the moonshine direct, and only a diffused glimmer whitened the tall rocks and relieved the blackness of the pines. A hoarse clamour filled th... ...et a little while and perhaps all the hills of seaboard California may be as bald as Tamalpais. I have an interest of my own in these forest fires, fo... ...Americans rule in Monterey County. The new county seat, Salinas City, in the bald, corn- bearing plain under the Gabelano Peak, is a town of a purely ... ... his flight from Culloden, passed a night of superstitious terrors; Leven, a bald, quite modern place, sacred to sum- mer visitors, whence there has g... ...ch he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales. A... ...ghts of self-examination: it is a season, from all its associations, whether domestic or religious, sug- gesting thoughts of joy. A man dissatisfied w...

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...e country of the Navajos, down by the Aga Thia Needle—a great blade of red rock jutting from out the desert, like a knife thrust. Then on and on throu... ...dalajara. Far to the west and north, he saw Bonneville very plain, and the dome of the courthouse, a purple silhouette against the glare of the sky. O... ... young Osterman arrived. He was a young fellow, but singularly inclined to bald- ness. His ears, very red and large, stuck out at right angles from ei... ...le, ges- turing wildly with his right hand, his serio-comic face, with its bald forehead and stiff, red ears, was inflamed with excitement. He took th... ... Osterman, with his comedy face, the face of a music-hall singer, his head bald and set off by his great red ears, leaning back in his place, softly c... .... It always will be.” Vanamee clasped his head between his clenched fists, rocking himself to and fro. “Oh, the terror of it,” he murmured. “The horro... ...ng off over the little valley below them, watching the night build itself, dome-like, from horizon to zenith. Brusquely Vanamee turned away from the p... ...d his small black valise at the foot of the porch steps, and sat down in a rocker on the porch itself, fanning himself with his broad-brimmed hat, and... ... the day lapsing into quiet, the great, still twi- light, building itself, dome-like, toward the zenith. The barn fowls were roosting in the trees nea...

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...oets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— Perhaps some virtuous blushes;— let them go— ... ...a house o’erturn’d, Whisper’d he had a mistress, some said two — But for domestic quarrels one will do. Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit, ... ... shine, ‘T is in arranging all my friends’ affairs, Not having of my own domestic cares. And so I interfered, and with the best Intentions, ... ...She, for the future of her strength convinced. And that her honour was a rock, or mole, Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any k... ...s youth, And of the folly of all prudish fears, Victorious virtue, and domestic truth, And then of Don Alfonso’s fifty years: I wish these... ...ts; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a ne... ...he sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...ghts; You have freed the blacks—now pray shut up the whites. Shut up the bald coot bully Alexander! Ship off the Holy Three to Senegal; Teac...

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...leon and his braves ought not to quit each other. Under the immense gilded dome of the Invalides he would find a sanctuary worthy of himself. A dome i... ... Napoleon the ‘Dolphin;’ the echoes being repeated a thousand times by the rocks above James Town. After two hours’ march the cortege stopped at the e... ... a splendid receptacle for the coffin: “a temple with twelve pillars and a dome to cover it from the wet and moisture, surrounded with velvet hangings... ...e last honors are to be paid to it.] Among the company assembled under the dome of that edifice, the casual observer would not perhaps have remarked a... ..., like the moon when she is at her third quarter, wherewith those who were bald (many were, and fat too) covered themselves. All the reverend men held... ...eard each, the audience gave a kind of “ahahah!” such as you hear when the rockets go up at Vauxhall. At last the real Procession came. Then the drums...

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...ed to thieve? Why should slovenly and drunken servants exist? Why should a domestic staff be suffered in indulge in bouts of unconscionable debauchery... ... never noticed that his coachman, elated with the hospitality of Manilov’s domestics, was making remarks of a didactic nature to the off horse of the ... ...king remarks of a didactic nature to the off horse of the troika*, a skew- bald. This skewbald was a knowing animal, and made only a show of pulling; ... ...ents, the narrow yard in front of the window was full of poultry and other domestic creatures—of game fowls and barn door fowls, with, among them, a c... ...ke the most inane of remarks, and at once the maiden by their side will be rocking with laughter; whereas, should a State Councillor enter into conver... ...pses of elm-tops amid mist, the far- off notes of bells, endless clouds of rocks, and the illimit- able line of the horizon. Ah, Russia, Russia, from ... ..., are you thinking of travelling?” “To tell the truth,” replied Chichikov, rocking himself to and fro on the bench, and smoothing his knee with his ha... ...e previ- ous creation, even though during the process he caught sight of a bald patch on his head, and was led mournfully to reflect: “Alas! Why did I...