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... and navigation than I knew. On the other hand, instead of having to devote my energy to the learning of a multitude of things, I concentrated it upon... ... went on with my work; and here the episode ended for the time, though further developments were yet to take place. I set the breakfast table in the c... ...o purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral... ... of them were, there had been something wrong with all of them, an insufficient development here, an undue development there, a twist or a crook that d... ...ch as I had never seen him before. It was as though he were bursting with pent energy which must find an outlet somehow. Almost immediately he launched... ..., and the sun was shining. I had slept late, and I stepped outside with sudden energy, bent upon making up lost time as befitted a dweller on Endeavor ...

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...s observing his cousin’s German books was to give him an idea of the natural energy of Northerners. He had noticed it often before; he had already tol... ... feeling about herself; she only cared, as yet, for outside things. Even the development of her ‘gift’ had not made her think herself too precious for... ...ning from Charles Street, began to explain Miss Chancellor to her with fresh energy, and as if she (Verena) had never seen her, and up to this time th... ...seen her, and up to this time they had had nothing to say about her, to what developments (of the same sort) would not an encounter with Adeline have ... ...sprung from the ‘people,’ had an acquaintance with poverty, a hand to mouth development, and an experience of the seamy side of life—availed in no de... ...hat they were both (Verena and she) quite demoralised, and she only summoned energy to take her companion away when she heard Mrs. Burrage propose to ... ...ess smile. She assured him that he need have no fear on that score; Verena’s development was the thing in the world in which she took most interest; s... ...e, purely appreciative; it was passionate, too, and it put forth a beautiful energy. If Olive desired to get Verena into training, she could flatter he... ... Mississippian, without means, without friends, wanting, too, in the highest energy, the wisdom of the serpent, personal arts and national prestige, t...

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...ngly prepared to set about this business with a determined rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that trifling little affair. Ne... ...macetty that ever chipped a boat! — ah, ah!” I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at the hearty grief in his concluding... ...lijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of. But poorly could I withstand t... ...ey, the mate, was standing up in his boat’s bow, and with all the reckless energy of his tribe was venting his wild exclamations upon the whale, and e... ...you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad. Final... ...ip and Dough Boy made a match, like a black pony and a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar color, driven in one eccentric span. But... ...xact knowledge of the bones of the leviathan in their gigantic, full grown development, for that rare knowledge I am indebted to my late royal friend ... ...ended with some small violence to his own person. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had received a half spl...

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... when I was teazing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?” “With great energy; — but it is a subject which always makes a lady energetic.” “Yo... ...ortunes have been great indeed.” “And of your infliction,” cried Elizabeth with energy. “You have reduced him to his present state of poverty, comparat... ... commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits, as they proceeded together up the great stai... ...rself with such an expectation. Surprise was the least of her feelings on this development. While the contents of the first letter remained on her mind... ... two letters aloud, and dwelling on the postscript of the last, with trembling energy. — Though Lydia had never been a favourite with them, Mr. and Mr... ...of a day, but had stood the test of many months suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father’s incredulity...

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...im as he stood before or behind it. Oak’s motions, though they had a quiet energy, were slow, and their delib erateness accorded well with his occupa... ...the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid ... ...n resources again: it seemed to herself that she never could again acquire energy sufficient to go to market, barter, and sell. Since Troy’s death Oak ... ...n their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circum stance permits its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which...

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... take leave of Oblonsky’s colleagues. “That gentleman must be a man of great energy,” said Grinevitch, when Levin had gone away. “Yes, my dear boy,” s... ... about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natur... ...therto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal. And he was happy at it. He knew only that he... ... all depends on riding and on pluck,” said the Englishman. Of pluck—that is, energy and courage—Vronsky did not merely feel that he had enough; what w... ...ut all her figure, and especially her head, there was a certain expression of energy, and, at the same time, of softness. She was one of those creature... ... always he returned in July and at once fell to work as usual with increased energy. As usual, too, his wife had moved for the summer to a villa out o... ...ghts, are a sign of barbarity. But specialized trials of skill are a sign of development.” “No, I shan’t come another time; it’s too upsetting,” said ... ...on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but. . . ” “Princess, bets!” sound... ...ng done in Russia. He considered the Russian peasant as occupying a stage of development intermediate between the ape and the man, and at the same tim...

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... merry gentleman! May nothing you dismay! Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to th... ... in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and delight with which the development of every package was received! The terrible announcement that...

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...el pronounced them with confidence “ephemeral,” but she esteemed the courage, energy and good humour of the writer, who, without parents and without pr... ...y in the year, by calling her a rank egoist. She was always planning out her development, desiring her perfection, observing her progress. Her nature ... ...s of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow minded; what she feared nex... ...s lordship the benefit of this epithet), Caspar Goodwood expressed for her an energy—and she had already felt it as a power—that was of his very nature... ...spar Goodwood and Lord Warburton. It was strange how quickly these images of energy had fallen into the background of our young lady’s life. It was in... ...e place; it looked somehow as if, once you were in, you would need an act of energy to get out. For Isabel, however, there was of course as yet no tho... ...nent figure. Isabel had developed less, however, than Lily had thought likely—development, to Lily’s understanding, being somehow mysteri ously connec... ...re was much less discrimination than in that desire for comprehensiveness of development on which he had been used to exercise his wit. There was a ki... ... expressive figure; after which she quickly left the room. Her faculties, her energy, her passion, were all dispersed again; she felt as if a cold, dar...

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... effortless and tireless. Their stringy muscles seemed founts of inexhaustible energy. Behind every steel like contraction of a muscle, lay another st... ... and after that went back to the cave and slept. V The Law of Meat T HE CUB’S development was rapid. He rested for two days, and then ventured forth ... ...n deadly earnestness, and found nothing. Yet the failure of it accelerated his development. He studied the habits of the squirrel with greater careful... ... it possible for them to come in to the fires of men, were qualities capable of development. They were developing in him, and the camp life, replete wi... ...nd, indomitable, perpetually warred upon and himself waging perpetual war, his development was rapid and one sided. This was no soil for kindliness an... ...the dog younger or smaller than himself was weak, a thing to be destroyed. His development was in the direction of power. In order to face the constan...

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...ve months (thanks to “courses,” summaries and abridgments) that prevents the development of real artistic sensibility in our eager and richly endowed ... ... and in Central America prove the far off existence of an artistic and civic development unknown to the races found by the first European explorers. Bu... ...glish Puritans left England only to gain greater liberty for the independent development of their peculiar political and religious ideas; they were no... ...n is neither interesting in itself, nor conducive to any sort of real social development in the money maker or in those about him. No life is more ste... ...more sterile than one into which nothing enters to balance such an output of energy. To see how different is the French view of the object of money ma... ...the pressure of an “ad ministration” on her neck. Imagination, intellectual energy, and every form of artistic activity, found their outlet in social...

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...o week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted ... ...ted in him. The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, ... ...reasons to believe in my friend’s subtle powers of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that he must have some solid grounds for t... ... tut!” cried Sherlock Holmes. “You must act, man, or you are lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for despair.” “I have seen the pol... ... no harm done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a waste of energy.” Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door fl... ...o much,” responded his Lordship. “I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over them. I t...

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...lking together, ill voices between a speech and a snore, and with that lack of energy that distin guishes the occupants of alms houses, and all other... ...; there were men among them in their strength and prime, of marked ability and energy, and altogether superior to the sluggish and dependent mode of l... ...ep of the scythe before the charge to which his spirit imparted its triumphant energy — but, be that as it might, there was never in his heart so much... ...ng the stal wart soldier of the Niagara frontier — the man of true and simple energy. It was the recollection of those memorable words of his — “I’ll... ...re, the capability of self support. If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon h... ...ve of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempere... ...essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has e... ... the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization a... ...er should have first read the heart, and have afterwards sought a corresponding development in the countenance and mien. Such a spiritual sneer might h...

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...ntly contracted by the long habit of shrinking from cold and misery, and the development of all their limbs and faculties is checked. It certainly is ... ...r perchance, at evening, I hear him in his stable blowing off the superfluous energy of the day, that he may calm his nerves and cool his liver and bra... ... in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish wi... ... in form is the grossest sensuality into purity and devotion. The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when w... ...own by the wind, now a few paces this way, with wonderful speed and waste of energy, making incon ceivable haste with his “trotters,” as if it were f... ...ome to where he was still at work, sporting on this bank, and with excess of energy strewing his fresh designs about. I feel as if I were nearer to th...

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...her’s.” “Yes,” added Maria, “and her spirits are as good, and she has the same energy of character. I cannot but think that good horsemanship has a gr... ...g, and with it compassion for him and for almost every one of the party on the development before him — with solicitude on Edmund’s account indescriba... ...action — seeing in them, the proof of good principles, professional knowledge, energy, courage, and cheerfulness — every thing that could deserve or p... ...t now. The subject is more justly considered. It is felt that distinctness and energy may have weight in recommending the most solid truths; and, besi... ...ny young men’s claims to be attended to in the same way, that a friendship and energy, not very determined, is easily put by. What a happy creature Wi...

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...ch a venture, — no reason in the world, save that he suffered from an abnormal development of sentimentality. He mistook this for the true spirit of r... ...unted. Sandel was compelled to walk that many more steps, to give up that much energy, and to lose a part of the precious minute of rest. At the begin... ...dium speculations had shaken his steady scientific faith in the conservation of energy and the indestructibility of matter. Always and forever must the...

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... his not being at all events futile, and of his absolute acceptance of the developments of the coming age—to redress the balance of his being so diffe... ...ally sharp that, to shut him self in, he again applied—the ground of this energy was precisely that he might here, however briefly, find himself alone,... ...l “good,” as they said at American City, he had but to retrace his immense development. That was what the whole thing came back to—that the developmen... ... the part of the Miss Lutches might indeed have suggested the vision of an energy supremely asserted. It was droll, in truth, if one came to that the ... ...ent, whether that was to be after all the last word of their conscientious development. Certain it was at all events that in ad dition to the Assingh... ...ensions of experience. Maggie achieved accordingly an act of unprecedented energy, threw herself into her father’s presence as by the absolute consist... ...te, Mrs. Assingham would be by so much as this concerned in its inevitable development? It amounted to an intimation, off his guard, that he should be... ...y so much her friend as at that moment—had braced herself to so amazing an energy, and there under Amerigo’s eyes she picked up the shining pieces. Be... ...r story had dropped an instant; she still brought it out in small waves of energy, each of which spent its force; so that he had an opportunity to spe...

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...ious, and greedy of clutch. In Mr. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike t... ...f poor in performing experiments for the good of all.” She spoke with more energy than is expected of so young a lady, but Sir James had appealed to h... ... her always with the same quiet staccato evenness. When people talked with energy and emphasis she watched their faces and features merely. She never ... ...e at one time was, but a grand presentiment. We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embr... ...rom her tower into the clear air; but these intervals of quietude made the energy of her speech and emotion the more remarked when some outward appeal... ...ient renunciation of small desires? In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustr... ...s of necessary sequence by the inward light which is the last refinement of Energy, capable of bathing even the ethereal atoms in its ideally illuminat... ...s of a preconceived romance—incidents which gather value from the foreseen development and climax. In Rosamond’s romance it was not necessary to imagi... ...had hitherto lain in some obstruction, had been sprouting under cover. The development was much furthered by a delight in his guest which proved great...

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...empt, like a Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there is an untutored energy, a silent, as it were unconscious, strength, which, except in the ... ...led Game preserver: the inner man of the one has been fostered into generous development; that of the other, crushed down perhaps by vigor of animal d... ... thus, in the conducting medium of Fantasy, flames forth ROMANCE 89 that fire development of the universal Spiritual Electricity, which, as unfolded be... ...ad only some Choice of Hercules. It was a new attained progress in the Moral Development of man: hereby has the Highest come home to the bosoms of the... ...mmunion, he has no portion but Solitude, and a life of Meditation. The whole energy of his existence is directed, through long years, on one task: tha... ...a nobler; she herself, through perpetual metamorphoses, in fairer and fairer development, has to live till Time also merge in Eternity. Wheresoever tw...