Description Details
...volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Karawane by Hugo Ball. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 5th, 2010. Ball wrote his poem Karawane, which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief p...

Description Details
...The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, Ball-of-Fat (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre during which occurs the corruption of a principled prostitute by immoral and hypocritical members of the uppe...

Full Text Search Details
...ted by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of t... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell To Henri de Ba... ...ars of Louis XVIII.’s reign as years of service. Some days later he 4 The Ball at Sceaux further received, without any solicitation, ex officio, the ... ...are ruin- ous in effect. He was—to quote the wittiest and most suc- 6 The Ball at Sceaux cessful of our diplomates—one of the faithful five hundred w... ...f wearying the monarch’s benevolence. It occurred to him to mention 8 The Ball at Sceaux only one by one, these virgins eager to light their torches.... ...ne else dwelt in a sphere so lofty as to be able to understand the 10 The Ball at Sceaux merits of her soul; and a pride based no less on her birth t... ...ighty— a hundred thousand francs a year? Such advantageous matches 12 The Ball at Sceaux were not to be met with every day for girls without a por- t... ...hree suitors, she rushed into the festivities of the winter season, and to balls, where her keen eyes criticised the celebrities of the day, delighted...

Full Text Search Details
... dog belonging to the place. But though the roof had holes, as if a cannon-ball or two had dropped through it, the wooden shutters were thick and tigh... ...er haughty beauty and, only a short time before, the admired of all at the balls in the Viceroy’s palace, should take by the hand a guasso, a common p... ...and the orchard were surrounded quietly. Later on the General and I left a ball we were attending in town and rode out at an easy gallop. At some litt... ...wn family. My mother and my sisters had escaped with their lives from that ballroom, where I had left them early in the evening. I remember those 40 ... ...e, pale but active, assisting some of our poor neighbours, in their soiled ball-dresses and with the dust of fallen walls on their hair. As to my moth... ...e group. But the distance was too great and in the spatter of spent musket-balls cutting up the ground, the group opened, closed, swayed, giv- ing me ...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................. 16 C...

Full Text Search Details
...R I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BLUE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL ......................................... ...APTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BLUE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL THERE WAS A LARGE, brilliant evening s... ...er. Marjory watched her wide-eyed. Millicent was self-important. “The blue ball!” she cried in a climax of rapture. “I’ve got the blue ball.” She held... ...t full dark blue color. She rose and went to her father. “It was your blue ball, wasn’t it, father?” “Yes.” “And you had it when you were a little boy... ...“I sh’d think not.” “Should I try?” She proceeded gingerly to let the blue ball drop, it bounced 10 Aaron’s Rod dully on the floor-covering. “Oh-h-h!... ...teemed a good player: was in request at concerts and dances, also at swell balls. So the vivid piping sound tickled the darkness. He played on till ab... ...ous,” laughed Tanny. “Me!” Jim shook his head. “Not a bit. Like to see the ball kept rolling.” “What have you been doing lately?” 73 D. H. Lawrence “...

Full Text Search Details
...erplexity, and talked of his indignation nightly to his pretty partners at balls, who knew not they were lesser Andromedas of his dear Andromeda count... ... a popular boy, a favourite of women, and therefore full of engagements to Balls and dinners. And he was a mod- est boy, though his uncle encouraged h... ...We will not discuss the con- jectures here. A savour of North Sea foam and ballad pirates hangs about the early chronicles of the family. Indications ... ...and had em- barked her costly cavalry to offer it for a mark of artillery- balls on three sides of a square: and the belief was universal that we coul... ...his is the identical riva I stepped out on to buy you a packet of Venetian ballads.’ They recognized the spot, and for a confirmation of the surprisin... ...ned honourable mention. Nevil and Drew being knocked down by the wind of a ball near the battery, ‘Confound it!’ cries Nevil, jumping on his feet, ‘it... ...enter the enemy’s nest at Itchincope on Wednesday, at the great dinner and ball there, she would do her best to bring him back to Mount Laurels, that ... ...once?’ 149 George Meredith ‘My dear fellow, I went everywhere to see her: balls, the- atres, promenades, rides, churches.’ ‘ And you say she dressed ... ...watering-places, North or South? You 153 George Meredith would dance at a ball a dozen times with a girl engaged to a man—who drenched you with a tum...

Full Text Search Details
... Captain Kirby to his table; and Countess Fanny (she had the name from the ballad ‘I am the star of Prince and Czar, My light is shed o... ...tion was extraordinarily roused by the elopement, and there were songs and ballads out of num- ber), Countess Fanny despatched her husband to Captain ... ...er husband fell altogether to drinking and coaching, and other things. The ballad makes her say: ‘My family my gaolers be, My husband i... ...te of her bravery, that poor woman suffered! We used to learn by heart the ballads and songs upon fa- mous events in those old days when poetry was wo... ...ding that she was watched and guarded, left the Marchioness of Arpington’s ball-room and was escorted downstairs by her brother Lord Levellier, sworn ... ...wery,’ because of a remark he once made to his flag-cap- tain, when cannon-balls were coming thick on them in a hard- fought action. ‘Hot work, sir,’ ... ...ied the admiral, as his cocked-hat was knocked off by the wind of a cannon-ball. He lost both legs before the war was over, and said merrily, ‘Stumps ... ... likeness; and soft to a breath of air as gossamer down, the body became a ball, a cock, a little lizard, nothingness. The bluest bright day of the ye... ...ith prickles. ‘Where have you been?’ he said, blinking to refresh his eye- balls. ‘I missed you, I ran round and round the town after you.’ ‘I have be...

Description Details
...Präsidents Ida ist gerade von der Pension in der Residenzstadt zurückgekehrt und ihr Erscheinen auf dem Ball ist ein glänzender Erfolg. Doch sie hat nur Augen für den geheimnisvollen polnischen Grafen Martiniz, der jede Nacht die Stunde zwischen zwölf und ein Uhr im Münster verbringt. Aus der Residenz ergeht Befehl, den Grafen ...

Excerpt Details
...t of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world: A...

Full Text Search Details
...st, Making the wind my post horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every ... ... rest of this day’s deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top on’t, Colevile kissing my fo...

Full Text Search Details
...r shore, 10 With lads to chase the leather, Now I stand up no more?’ Ay, the ball is flying, The lads play heart and soul; The goal stands up, the keep...

Full Text Search Details
...ted to rifle fire, machine-gun fire and bombs of a peculiar sort, big iron balls of the size of a football filled with explosive that were just flung ... ...l errand; he keeps to the pavement, mindful of the spying German sau- sage balloon in the air. The streets are strangely quite and grass grows between... ...ilent square on the outside pavement and not across it. The German sausage balloon had not been up for days; it had probably gone off to the Somme; th... ...ails of rust, and cornflowers and mustard and tall grasses grow amidst the ballast. The waiting-rooms have suf- fered from a shell or so, but there ar... ...raft guns, the Archibalds, begin to pattern the sky about them with little balls of black smoke. From below one does not see men nor feel that men are... ...ners. The careful gunner, firing by the map and marking by aeroplane, kite balloon or direct observation, will be getting onto the lo- cated guns and ... ...deal battery was a battery of one big gun, with its own aeroplane and kite balloon marking for it. The British seem to be associated with the adventur... ...he aeroplanes, away towards the enemy the humped, blue sausage-shaped kite balloons brood thoughtfully, and from this point and that, guns, curiously ...

Full Text Search Details
...d so on, sometimes near by, sometimes in the distance, all just like a state ball, you know, and sometimes she can’t hold herself any longer, but soun...

Full Text Search Details
...apped and rolled about, and grew bigger and bigger and rounder and rounder—balloons in course of inflation for the South of England Aero Club’s Saturd... ...man. “It’s only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in the country has its weekly-o... ...aters,” said Mr. T om Smallways. “Three barrer-loads! What they dropped as ballase. Some of the plants was broke, and some was buried.” “Ladies, they ... ...om which ascents were continually being made, and presently the descent of ballast upon his potatoes, conspired to bear in upon his unwilling mind the... ...t hold of them. At first the most obvious aspect was the multiplication of balloons. The sky of Bun Hill began to be infested by bal- loons. On Wednes... ...could scarcely look skyward for a quarter of an hour without discovering a balloon somewhere. And then one bright day Bert, motoring toward Croydon, w... ...rpetual sequence of triumph and disaster and silence. Flying slumped, even ballooning fell away to some extent, though it remained a fairly popular sp... ...assersby. And there were several navi- gable gas air-ships, not to mention balloons, in the air. It was all immensely interesting and refreshing after... ...g-a-ling-a-ting-a-ling-a-ting-a-ling-a-tang What Price Hair-pins Now?” The balloon rose and fell, went out of sight—”landed, thank goodness,” said Gru...

Full Text Search Details
...u. And that is when they can make living here hell.” Geoffrey turned on the balls of his feet and motioned for her to follow him. Aislinn was glad... ...from a small but burly looking page. “There is going to be a relatively small ball next week. Just for the local nobles. I don’t believe that any ... ... you.” The beautiful Lady continued to talk but Aislinn stopped listening. A ball. Wonderful. I’m sure that Mother will come. And I’ll have to h... ...ad to clean out the horses’ stall for a month, to start immediately after the ball. “Why after?” she asked, her curiosity controlling her mouth. “B... ...rolling her mouth. “Because Saul has this month’s duty and it runs out on the ball’s eve, not that that is any of your concern,” the duke answered, ... ...hey bother someone else? ***** Nicole Zoltack 40 With the upcoming ball and the amount of work and preparation required of the pages left ... ...d of the pages left no more time for tormenting Aislinn. When the day of the ball finally arrived, the entire castle was in a frenzied bustle. Wit... ...ue to herself, she would have realized that she actually had enjoyed the last ball she had come to. Wearing a beautiful green gown, she had danced ... ...sure that most of you would like to see them. You may go ahead and enjoy the ball.” She turned to the other pages. “And you may enjoy the watering...

Full Text Search Details
... just plain weird. None of that explained why a Vampire smelled like a Downy ball, though. Maybe some mysteries were too boggling for the human min... ...f I expected the world to change because I wanted it to, I’d have to get the ball rolling. Since kidnapping the entire Stargate production team was ... ...t three buttons of my leather vest in case he needed a visual aid to get the ball rolling. His hand closed over mine to stop me, but he didn’t jerk ... ...n beat you about the head until you see reason. Your choice?” I reared back, balling up my hand into a tidy and lethal fist. I watched the indecisi... ...hter and it’s going to take more than a Vampire to take me out.” “You’ve got balls, just like your momma. She was a fighter, and damned if you didn’... ... snapped, thinking better of it the second I closed my mouth. “Dad, don’t go ballistic. Donnie’s a pretty good guy once you get to know him,” Krista... ...onnie’s apartment. “Doesn’t it bother you that I’m a Vampire?” “It makes my balls itch to hell and back, but there’s not a lot I can do about it. I...

Full Text Search Details
..., slipped hers free of his, and teleported to her room. She curled into a ball and let the sobs flow. She knew when she was screwed. Chapter 12 Col...

Full Text Search Details
...gure that had been rolled into a fetal position squirmed into an even tighter ball, and dug his head deeper under the pillow. "Michael...Michael B... ...attempted such a feat, he slipped from the corner with disastrous results. His balls hurt for a week. He concluded that Radcliff must have a special ... ...yes forward. "You know, you're a real chicken-shit. You didn't even have the balls to come to me. You had to send Artemis, who is now the laughing ... ...e bartender for a beer. Brand reached under the bar and grabbed the student's balls and squeezed them into a vice. The young man's eyes rolled back a... ... don't need a lesson in Catechism," he said, rising to leave. "Sit down, Don Ballato, or you may not leave here alive," Gallucci stated calmly. Ba... ...and Tartelli have just been assassinated, along with their soldiers.” "How?" Ballato asked not believing a word. "Their heads were blown off." "... ...eads were blown off." "When?" "About fifteen minutes ago." "Impossible! "Ballato screamed. Immediately, the entire group of Capos began scrambl... ...ease sit down!" Antonio pleaded. The Capos stopped. "What the hell is this?" Ballato yelled. "Sit. And I will tell you," Gallucci replied. Reluc... ...ied. Reluctantly, the Capos returned to their seats. "We want answers. Now," Ballato and several of the other Capos demanded. "Calm yourselves," ...

Full Text Search Details
... late, obtained neither a Grand Duchy of Berg nor a Kingdom of Naples, nor balls at the Pizzo. But if he won no crown he had ample opportunity to obta... ...uartermaster filtered through society the night on which he gave his first ball. Diard was therefore debarred from succeeding in society. Henceforth h... ...e received. At such times Juana once more caught a glimpse of the world of balls, festivities, luxury, and lights; but for her it was a sort of tax im...

Full Text Search Details
...e rare with us, — delicate and beautiful specimens of the larch, arbor vitæ, ball spruce, and fir balsam, from a few inches to many feet in height, — l... ...od and water craft. We had hot cakes for our supper even here, white as snow balls, but without butter, and the never failing sweet cakes, with which ... ...eseeing that we should not soon meet with the like again. Such delicate puff balls seemed a singular diet for back woodsmen. There was also tea witho... ...rate, while their branches straggle after as they may; as Indi ans lift the ball over the heads of the crowd in their desperate game. In this they re... ...arcass appearing from within its seemly robe, which was made to hide it. The ball had passed through the shoulder blade diagonally and lodged under th... ...he centre of the fire. There was the whole heart, black as a thirty two pound ball, hanging at one corner. They said, that it took three or four days t... ...bject was to clean out and dry it after the rain, and he then loaded it with ball, being now on ground where he expected to meet with large game. This... ...guess what. But I could not, and he would not tell me, though he showed me a ball of it when made, as big as a pea, and like black pitch, saying, at l...

Full Text Search Details
...remembers her train borne up by her gentlewoman. There was an assembly and ball at the great room at the “Bell,” and other young gentlemen of the coun... ...e spoke. Harry said he had seen him but once when he was at Hexton, at the ball there. “And did he say anything?” “He said what I don’t care to repeat... ...es, which he pretended to know better than any jockey; was made to play at ball and billiards by sharpers who took his money, and came back from Londo... ... old court, where my Lord Castlewood beat my Lord Mohun, who said he loved ball of all things, and would quickly come back to Castlewood for his reven... ...r power became more fatal as she grew older—as a kitten first plays with a ball, and then pounces on a bird and kills it. ’Tis not to be imagined that... ...marry early—Trix will be a duchess by that time, most likely; for a cannon ball may knock over his grace any day, you know.” 212 Henry Esmond “How?” ... ...alcote, who hath ever since remained with me.—H. E. 225 Thackeray and the ball extracted by the surgeon on the spot where our young gentleman receive... ..., kneeling to hold his Grace’s stirrup, had his head shot away by a cannon-ball. A French gentleman of the Royal House- hold, that was a prisoner with... ...d thither as calmly as he would combine a stroke or make a cannon with the balls. The game over (and he played it so as to be pretty sure to win it), ...