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...vening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, ...

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...Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a ... ...r twice, ’tis true, that my family had seen better days afore they came to Blackmoor. But I took no notice o’t, thinking it to mean that we had once k... ...like for supper, — well, lamb’s fry if they can get it; and if they can’t, black pot; and if they can’t get that, well, chitterlings will do.’ ‘Yes, S... ...blic scrutiny, an inability to balance their heads, and to dissociate self consciousness from their features, was apparent in them, and showed that th... ... occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, th... ...f the field — the white gowns, the nosegays, the willow wands, the whirling movements on the green, the flash of gentle sentiment towards the stranger —... ...efore. Prince required but slight attention, lacking energy for superfluous movements of any sort. With no longer a companion to distract her, Tess fel... ...e, too, had fallen. They were a long way further on than when she had lost consciousness, and the waggon had stopped. A hollow groan, unlike anything ... ...utrality. ‘I will go,’ said Tess at last. Her mother could not repress her consciousness of the nuptial Vision conjured up by the girl’s consent. ‘Tha...

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...ited his big tea cup upon the table. He was neatly dressed, in well brushed black; but a shawl was folded upon his knees, and his feet were encased i... ...had time to follow and to see that Bunchie’s new friend was a tall girl in a black dress, who at first sight looked pretty. She was bareheaded, as if s... ...d put away the little dog; her white hands, in her lap, were folded upon her black dress; her head was erect, her eye lighted, her flexible figure turne... ...,” he added with a politeness by no means crudely jocular and with the happy consciousness that his advanced age gave him the privilege of saying such... ...judging the great ones of the earth in a way that spoke of this, enjoyed the consciousness of making an impression on a candid and susceptible mind. I... ...been troubled about money matters nothing ever dis turbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions. Isabel, though she danced very well, h... ... of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the con tinuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world. For this reaso... ...of great moment, dropped out of sight. The result was kaleidoscopic, but the movement of the instrument was checked at last by the servant’s coming in... ...aring that appearance of rare profundity with which some ladies consider the movement of their needles. One day, however, a visitor had arrived. The t...

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...han I ventured to hope I should please. For the sake of variety and from a consciousness of my own weakness I was induced to request the assistance of... ...r melancholy, which he has been accustomed to connect with that particular movement of metre, there will be found something which will greatly contrib... ...e at the lifted latch; The gloomy lantern, and the dim blue match, The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill, And ear still busy on its nig... ...d and square, In tree and tower was Johnny seen, In bush and brake, in black and green, ’T was Johnny, Johnny, every where. She’s past the bri... ...MOTHER Her eyes are wild, her head is bare, The sun has burnt her coal black hair, Her eye brows have a rusty stain, And she came far from ove... ...e then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all.—I cannot paint What then ... ...lf very desirous that it should be suppressed. This wish had arisen from a consciousness of the defects of the Poem, and from a knowledge that many pe...

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...ld. Alone! In that gloomy place all the long, dreary night. She evinced no consciousness of my surprise, but cheerfully helped the old man with his cl... ... house to assure myself that the noise had not come from there. No, it was black, cold, and lifeless as before. There were few passengers astir; the s... ...he top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp. With all these personal advantages (to which may b... ...f, though his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant. His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin, bristly wit... ...like smile always on his face, save when Mrs Quilp made some involun tary movement of restlessness or fatigue; and then it expanded into a grin of de... ... was visible on the part of the child a painful anxiety for his reply, and consciousness of his power to render it disagreeable or distressing, which ... ...sorder was past, and he began to mend. By very slow and feeble degrees his consciousness came back; but the mind was weak ened and its functions were... ... does wrong. ’ The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 182 The young man made a movement of impatience, but Quilp went on as calmly as if he were discussin... ...nt, in short, to know that Bevis Marks was revolutionised by these popular movements, and that peace and quietness fled from its precincts. Nobody was...

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...something, and men begin to make them- selves happier in the warmth of the movement. The hounds go into covert, and a period of excitement is commence... ...ion of my good will. His dress is nearly always the same. He wears a thick black coat, dark brown breeches, and top boots, very white in colour, or of... ...e ordinary world. The farmer whom we have now before us shall wear the old black coat, and the old black hat, and the white top boots, rather daubed i... ...n air is very terrible, and is rendered almost agonizing by the prisoner’s consciousness that his position is the result of his own imprudent temerity... ...tly established as a Nimrod in the hunting world, generally comes out in a black coat and a hat, so that he may not be specially conspicuous in his de...

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...osed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...am- parts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any oth... ...h brown complexion and brown hair, splendid, from eyes which sparkled beneath strongly- marked brows, and particularly from her teeth, which seemed to... ... gallop of a horse resounded under the porch of the castle. “What is that?” said Montalais, approaching the window. “A handsome cavalier, by my faith!... ...le, hand- some gentleman of former days, but time had given to this nobleness and beauty a more solemn and distinct charac- ter. A brow white and void... ...pen. The visitor was scarcely gone when Cropole, crossing his arms, said: “Well, master, what is to be done?” “We must efface the legend,” said Pittri... ... single traveler in his house. 38 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 This was a man of scarcely thirty years of age, hand- some, tall, austere, or rather mela... ...n footsteps, accompanied with the jingling of his spurs upon the stone slabs. This guard was one of the twenty musketeers appointed for attendance upo... ...in- tendent made his entrance like a man of the court, to whom a single glance was sufficient to make him appreciate the situation. That situation was... ...Louis began to float, undetermined between the hatred which this so powerful man inspired him with, and the pity he felt for the other, so cast down, ...

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... a card in one hand, and a pin in the other, to mark the numbers of Red or Black. He seemed a modern Tantalus, with all the pleasures of his epoch at ... ... gold which he held in his hand, without deliberation. It rolled on to the Black; then, as strong natures can, he looked calmly, if anxiously, at the ... ...flut- tering above the combat. If he set aside for a moment the burdens of consciousness and of memory, to watch the flower heads gently swayed by the... ...hat flit over the remains of a burnt scrap of paper; but as it is with the black ashes, so it was with his face, it became dull again when the strange... ...ed by the satin of her fashion- able bonnet. Her slender form and graceful movements en- tranced him. Her skirt had been slightly raised as she steppe... ...stimulant, like a criminal who doubts his power to reach the scaffold. The consciousness of approaching death gave him, for the time being, the intrep... ...him again. Things appeared to him in strange col- ors, or as making slight movements; his irregular pulse was no doubt the cause; the blood that somet... ...p the whole world within your soul, compared with the immeasurable joys of movement, unstrangled by the cords of time, unclogged by the fetters of spa... ...emors that shallow people find astonishing, but the phenomena of our inner consciousness are produced as simple as those of external vision; so I was ...

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...n His Youth, While the Female Should Marvel Credulously IX. Concerning the Black Goddess Fortune and the Worship of Her, T ogether with an Introductio... ...eadful love, like a runaway mail-coach in a storm of wind and lightning at black midnight by the banks of a flooded river, which was formerly our comp... ... on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into action with the title of Kirby’s Gh... ...ave known), the story of how it had been wrung from the earl by a surprise movement on the part of the one-armed old lord, who burst out on him in the... ...od, whose right to the title he did not doubt, though it directed surprise movements at his understanding from time to time. BOOK 3 XX. Studies in Fog... ...d not have been driven to my lord.’ ‘I know the feeling,’ said Gower; ‘any movement of us not our own impulse, hurries the body and deadens the mind. ... ...nd stared at the half dozen lines. The signification of them rapped on his consciousness of another heavy blow before he was perfectly intelligent. Al...

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...ater. He would say nothing else-repeating his cry impatiently, back water! black water! The men put back as speedily as possible, but by this time the... ...ppered and copper-fastened), and beat- ing violently against it with every movement of the hull. After several ineffectual efforts, made during the lu... ... his sensations while in the water. Upon his first attaining any degree of consciousness, he found himself beneath the surface, whirling round and rou... ...ee’nt nothing at all like Goddin, and I’d want you for to know better, you blackguard, than to call my new obercoat a darty one.” For my life I could ... ...ere concealed in wide-spreading morasses, whose dreary water lay intensely black, still, and altogether terrible, beneath. And the strange trees seeme... ...ere gleaming upon me through the gloom. Had a thousand lives hung upon the movement of a limb or the utterance of a syllable, I could have neither sti... ...xtreme—so much so that I shook all over, as with an ague, at the slightest movement or exertion. To add to my troubles, the brig was pitching and roll... ...n we understand an intelligent essence having reason, and since there is a consciousness which always accompanies thinking, it is this which makes us ... ... I now made sure that I dreamed, and endeavored to arouse myself to waking consciousness. I stepped boldly and briskly forward. I rubbed my eyes. I ca...

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...the only terms that are ready to hand — the terms immediately given in his consciousness of his own actions. Activity is, therefore, assimilated to hu... ...so slight. At the same time the wages in the trade are high enough to make movement from place to place relatively easy. The result is a great mobilit... ...accordingly attributable, at least in some measure, to the greater ease of movement and the more transient character of acquaintance and hu- man conta... ...nd the invidious pecuniary value of things is of course not present in the consciousness of the valuer. So far as a person, in forming a judgment of t... ...ssuing books for modern use, edited with the obsolete spelling, printed in black-letter, and bound in limp vellum fitted with thongs. As a further cha... ...em. The office of the leisure class in social evo- lution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no mea... ...viron- ment. This change was accompanied by an increasing an- tagonism and consciousness of antagonism between the in- dividual members of the group. ... ...ction, the greater devout- ness of the Southern population, both white and black, is cor- related with a scheme of life which in many ways recalls the... ...Dass, and even so late a scholar in divinity as Grundtvig, in terms of the Black Art. These, together with a very com- prehensive list of minor celebr...

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...proud, peculiarly upright bear- ing, though quick, almost sharp in all her movements, and especially with her eyes. Those eyes, I confess, always star... ...r- noon, as Jaquetta, in her pretty pink gingham and white apron, with her black hair in the Grecian coil we used to wear when our heads were allowed ... ...the roots of his bright hair as Jaquetta walked up the aisle, in her drawn black silk bonnet with the pink lining (made by herself); and I think she c... ...essed man, only given to elaborate jewellery and waistcoats, with polished black hair and boots, and keen French-looking eyes, well-mannered, and so v... ...d she lost her way, I thought? There was something of the tame fawn in her movement; and then I remembered the white doe. Yes! it was Emily! The one h... ...f plans depend- ing on the possession of the Trevorsham property, kept the consciousness of his purpose before her, and as debt and des- peration grew...

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...sake of economy, because they kept the socks clean. The rusty tinge of his black breeches, like the cut and the white or shiny line of the creases, as... ...th which would have done credit to a shark. A shawl-waistcoat, likewise of black cloth, was supple- mented by a white under-waistcoat, and yet again b... ...ough older by some three years than the breeches, was remarkably neat; the black velvet collar and shining metal buttons, recently renewed, told of ca... ... the Revolution of July plunged him into the very cen- tre of the dynastic movement, as everybody knows. So Pons, in the wake of the Camusots and Card... ... scene, court-shepherd swains and shep- herdesses dancing in a ring). “The movement! the life in it! the coloring! There it is—see! —painted with a st... ...have sud- denly begun to stir, and shaping themselves into one idea, reach consciousness with a ricochet, as sportsmen say. “He must have taken offenc... ...ngelic creatures whom nobody knows nor appreciates. Her abrupt, unthinking movement told Remonencq that success was sure. In the chineur’s way of busi... ...s nose, bathed his temples with eau-de-cologne, and at last brought him to consciousness. When she saw his eyes unclose and life re- turn, she stood o... ...b- bing painfully, his head fell back on the chair, he seemed to have lost consciousness. “Yes,” he answered, “I can hear, but it is as if you vere do...

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...clock external to the time machine and the time metered by the flow of his consciousness (presumably the same as the time he sees on his pocket watch... ...tinct feeling that the ship is stuck in some infinite vat of star- studded black molasses. Except for the monotonous quotidian rotation of the sky du... ..., and one asks if it's possible to have an infinite speed (instantaneous movement). Introduction. What's new in science (physics)? Accord...

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...n, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order....

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...r justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a re... ...th careless deprecation. “Y es, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now,” said Celia, insistingly. “Y ou might wear that.” “Not fo... ... speech in the scene which had ended with that little explo- sion. Celia’s consciousness told her that she had not been at all in the wrong: it was qu... ...anced sing- song neatness of his speech, occasionally corresponded to by a movement of his head, was the more conspicuous from its contrast with good ... ... dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and expressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that i... ...ast her- self, with a childlike sense of reclining, in the lap of a divine consciousness which sustained her own. She remained in that attitude till i... ...ae folded in her hand. Old provincial society had its share of this subtle movement: had not only its striking downfalls, its brilliant young profes- ... ...ers with an offensive advantage in cunning. In fact, much the same sort of movement and mixture went on in old En- gland as we find in older Herodotus... ...ig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. But then Mrs. Waule always has black crape on. How does she man- age it, Rosy? Her friends can’t always be...

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...n, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order....

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...r justify weariness, which would reconcile self despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a re... ...h careless depreca tion. “Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now,” said Celia, insistingly. “You Might wear that.” “Not for... ...nd speech in the scene which had ended with that little explosion. Celia’s consciousness told her that she had not been at all in the wrong: it was qu... ...nced sing song neatness of his speech, occasionally corre sponded to by a movement of his head, was the more conspicuous from its contrast with good ... ... dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and ex pressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that... ...gnition of some deeper correspondence than that of date in the fact that a consciousness of need in my own life had arisen contemporaneously with the ... ...ae folded in her hand. Old provincial society had its share of this subtle movement: had not only its striking downfalls, its brilliant young professi... ...ers with an offensive advantage in cunning. In fact, much the same sort of movement and mixture went on in old England as we find in older Herodotus, w... ...ig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. But then Mrs. Waule always has black crape on. How does she manage it, Rosy? Her friends can’t always be d...

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...the wind, and the plane would not readily rise. We went with an undulating movement, leaping with a light splashing pat upon the wa- ter, from wave to... ...of individually unimportant men, have felt the need for such a Prince. Our consciousness of defects, of fields of effort untilled, of vast possibiliti... ...early how little we can hope for from politicians, societies and organised movements in these es- sential things. It is this that has invested the ene... ... over-confidence, I might go on to the quality of our social and political movements. One hears nowadays a vast amount of chatter about efficiency—tha... ..., not victorious strikes and raised condi- 43 H. G . Wells tions, but the black resentment that follows defeat. Meet Labour half-way, and you will fi... ...e the mere opening requirements of this hope of mine of a quickened social consciousness among the more fortunate and leisurely section of the communi... ..., or—if the forces of law and order crush that down—then sabotage and that black revolt of the human spirit into crime which we speak of nowadays as a... ...es. Indeed in a large number of cases it is scarcely more than a resentful consciousness in the ex- propriated masses of social disintegration. It spe... ... reports of legislative and administrative corruption, of organised public blackmail, that do seem to carry out my thesis. One thinks of Edgar Allan P...

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...searchingly). Have ye ever haird of a bad charac- ter in these seas called Black Paquito? DRINKWATER (with a sudden radiance of complete enlight- enme... ...: Ev aw said a word agin him? Ev aw nah? RANKIN. But is Captain Brassbound Black Paquito then? DRINKWATER. Waw, it’s the nime is blessed mather give i... ...lidy mawt call er little boy Birdie. RANKIN (not quite convinced). But why black Paquito? DRINKWATER (artlessly). Waw, the bird in its netral stite be... ...o. DRINKWATER. Weoll, aw was hownly a teolln the lidy thet— (A threatening movement from Brassbound cuts him short. He flies for his life into the hou... ...give any trouble, you’ll have something to cry for. They make a threatenng movement towards Drinkwater. DRINKWATER (whimpering). You lee me alown: awm... ...I can only plead that an author who lives in England necessarily loses his consciousness of the peculiarities of English speech, and sharpens his cons...

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... the feet, a superabundance of checked shirt, a low crowned, well varnished black hat, worn on the back of the head, with half a fathom of black ribb... ...fathom of black ribbon hanging over the left eye, and a peculiar tie to the black silk neckerchief, with sundry other minutiae, are signs, the want... ...ignity, and no pleasures, unless he differs from most of his kind, but the consciousness of possessing supreme power, and, occasionally, the exer... ...upon the sails; and looking astern, we saw a small clipper built brig with a black hull heading directly after us. We went to work immediately, and p... ...ew stones thrown, started him, and we lost his track, and had the pleasant consciousness that he might be directly under our feet. By throwing ston... ...to set all right at once. On this subject there can be no call for any such movement; on the contrary, I fully believe that any public and strong act...

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...ead – bald but for one lock of hair not grey but yellowish-white – all his movements, which seemed performed, as it were, aimlessly, as though worked ... ... piano, picked up her hat and put it on. Her hands were trembling. All her movements seemed as it were uncon- scious, as though she did not know what ... ...ome terrible illness, and this pallor showed up vividly her great, shining black eyes. With her left hand she held a tat- tered old shawl, and with it... ...evening. Her whole dress might be described as rags and tatters. Her thick black hair was matted and uncombed. We stood so for two minutes, staring at... ...ifth storey down to the fourth, from the fourth it went straight. It was a black, dirty staircase, al- ways dark, such as one commonly finds in huge b... ... live here, and … a nice place! Look at it!” And with a rapid, unconscious movement of his hand he pointed to the foggy vista of the street, lighted u... ...rt me. That is the last moment that remains in my memory…. When I regained consciousness I found myself in bed. Elena told me later on that, with the ... ...n uneasy sleep. But it was only early next morn- ing that I fully regained consciousness. The candle had com- pletely burnt out. The vivid rosy beams ...