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... I find thee apt; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir ... ... politic worms are e’en at him. Y our worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your... ...o confess. KING CLAUDIUS : Our son shall win. QUEEN GERTRUDE : He’s fat, and scant of breath. Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows; Th...

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...e was a short man, with a rotund stomach and a wheezy voice. His immovable fat 51 Joseph Conrad face looked lifeless in the moonlight, and he walked ... ...ner, who had kept at hand, motionless, like a vilely-stuffed specimen of a fat man, with a lifeless face and glittering little eyes. The fellow approa... ... heavy, as if suffering, glance. “Y ou may go,” he said to his gunner. The fat man saluted, and departed. During the next thirty hours the steady towi... ...is mate was. “He was feeling not very well when I left,” he explained. The fat warrant-officer, holding himself as though the effort of carrying his b... ...missa reef. He saved his ship, and for the rest he did not care. As to the fat gunner, he deposed simply that he thought at the time that he was actin... ... much compromised on to the reef came to him while he was listening to the fat gunner in his cabin. There was but little risk of being disapproved now...

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...e day— They thought it a slam on colts. Robert Davidson I GREW spiritually fat living off the souls of men. If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded ... ...f machine that’s known— 83 I could not run or play 47 I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men 59 I had fiddled all day at the county fai...

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... Raynham at the scene he had just en- dured, and the figure of Belthorpe’s fat tenant burnt like hot copper on the tablet of his brain, insufferably c... ... It is true (of me, at least) that ‘Falstaff is only to us an incorrigible fat man.’ I want to know what he illustrates. And Don Quixote—what end can ... ... book than that ther’ Folly! Talk about attitudes!” The farmer laughed his fat sides into a chair, and motioned his visitor to do likewise. “It’s a co... ... a crack hotel, and living famil- iarly with West-End people—living on the fat of the land (which forms a stout portion of an honest youth’s romance),... ... the mignonne, as if to excuse her conduct. “You always appear to be,” the fat one sniffed and snapped. “Won’t you warm two, Mrs. Mortimer?” said the ... ...nto Ripton’s eyes. “Now you’ll never be so foolish as to pin your faith to fat women again. There! he shall be made happy another time.” She gave his ... ... and kissed him all over, when he was only that big—showing him her stumpy fat arm. “I kissed ye from head to tail, I did,” said Mrs. Berry, “and you ... ... and swung around to address him. “You bad man!” she held aloft one of her fat fingers, “I’ve come on ye like a bolt, I have, and goin’ to make ye do ... ...e to the north; the ground glittered; the cold was keen. Berry wrapped her fat arms across her bosom, and peeped as close over into the garden as the ...

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... a flower; you must have her with the stem, the thorns, the roots, and the fat bedding of roses. In this fashion she grew, says historical fiction; th... ...urdened himself between succulent pauses. ‘They’ve killed him early. He ‘s fat; and he might ha’ been fatter. But he’s fat. They’ve got their Christma... ... worst for last, and home-fed filled them with stuff to make good meat and fat ‘what we calls prime bacon.’ As it is not right to damp a native enthus... ... it was no wonder that Andrew Hedger enjoyed prime bacon. Bacon frizzling, fat rashers of real homefed on the fire-none of your foreign-suggested a ge... ...east, sharp and ringing, at divers tables descending from the upper to the fat citizen’s, where, instead of coming in the sequence of talk, they are e... ... the close of every barbarous chapter,’ said Diana. ‘Too fine in mind, too fat in body; that is a consequence with men, dear madam. The conqueror stan...

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...ut out the sacred thigh bones, and covering them all together closely with fat burnt them upon cloven wood. And Aeson’s son poured out pure libations,... ...or them Leto’s son provided a quarry; and with pious rites they wrapped in fat the thigh bones of them all and burnt them on the sacred altar, cel eb...

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...y-handed Baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron ...

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... humble relative of the farmer’s, widowed out of Sus- sex, very loving and fat; the cook to the household, whose waist was dimly indicated by her apro... ...ble old woman snapped in pain, as she applied her hand to the inconsolable fat foot, and nursed it. “What’s roused ye, you tiger girl? I shan’t be abl... ...fidgety as a girl who anticipates the visit of a promising youth, over his fat goose for next day’s dinner, and his shrimps for this day’s tea, and hi... ..., were in peril. When he had purchased 69 George Meredith the well-probed fat goose, the shrimps, and the cheese, he was only half-satisfied. His ide... ...” she repeated, defiantly. “And it ain’t,” she gathered up her comfortable fat person to assist the words “it ain’t good—no, not the best pious ones—I... ...m behind and dragging in front, Mrs. Sumfit, as near on a shriek as one so fat and sleek could be, was ejected. The farmer and Robert heard her strugg... ...y, sicknussin’, readin’—old farmer does the preachin’. Old mother Sumfit’s fat as ever, and says her money’s for you. Old Gammon goes on eatin’ of the... ... covered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into a bowl of ink, and in his literary del...

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...be, of course, a mere nothing to Ferdinand, who handles millions with that fat banker, Baron de Nucingen. Sometimes, at dinner, in my presence, they s... ...furrow that united the upper lip with the nose. Her chin, white and rather fat, betrayed the violence of passion. 47 Balzac Her hands and arms were w... ...gn. But she had one ineradicable sign of low birth,—her foot was short and fat. No inherited quality ever caused greater distress. Florine had tried e...

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...help to civilize us. Senti- mentalists are a perfectly natural growth of a fat soil. Wealthy communities must engender them. If with attentive minds w... ...longing to my mother. Just fancy a nose that seemed to be pecking at great fat red lips! He met me and pressed me to go continually, till all of a sud... ... listens to the voice of its own exceeding gratulation. A light heart in a fat body ravishes not only the world but the philosopher. If monotonous, th... ... horns of the snail, for example. Such are the sentimen- talists to us—the fat body of mankind. We owe them much, and though they scorn us, let us pit... ... the black curl half over the cheek, and a bright laugh, and a white neck, fat round arms, and—” A shout of “Oh, Pole! ye seem to be undressin’ of me ... ...timent of hogs. The play of sour and sweet, and crowning of the whole with fat, shows a people determined to go down in civiliza- tion, and try the bu... ...an but sum results. Let us, he entreats, be true to time and place. In our fat England, the gardener Time is playing all sorts of delicate freaks in t... ...y protection of a subtle selfishness which rules the fairer portion of our fat England. 393 George Meredith CHAPTER XLIX “MY BROTHER tells me it is y...

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...he half-burnt house laid over them served by turns as tables or seats. The fat was melted up in Patience’s great kettle, and the rushes dipped in it o... ...d him the land that he took with his sword and his bow, even a meadow land fat and fertile, Ballyshea by name, full of the bulls of Bashan, goodly to ... ..., and set before him how only for his sake Patience might be living on the fat of the land at the mill. To all appearance, Stead listened sulkily enou...

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...pect that Harold did not refrain from producing needle and thread from his fat miscellaneous pocket-book, and repairing her many disas- ters before th... ...ld, as the train steamed out of the station, was bearing on his shoulder a fat child—a potter’s—who had just arrived by the train, and had been scream...

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...n the sea. I have seen her. Have you seen her, too, O Haji Wasub?” “Am I a fat white man?” snapped the serang. “I was a man of the sea before you were... ...e a strange man. I suppose I must believe what you say—unless you and that fat mate of yours are a couple of escaped lunatics that got hold of a brig ... ..., nor angry words; and curses have no power, else the Dutch would not grow fat living on our land, and I would not be alive to-night. Do you under- st... ...As if this was any concern 185 Joseph Conrad of mine. He’s as mad as he’s fat—or else he puts it on.” Carter laughed a little and leaned his shoulder... ...uddenly his eyes became stony with amazement and indignation; he pointed a fat and trembling fore- finger. 193 Joseph Conrad “Niggers,” he said, husk... ...uld you have preferred to see them pass into Tengga’s keeping?” “Tengga is fat and full of wiles,” said Daman, dis- dainfully, “a mere shopkeeper smit... ...efore half an hour has passed Daman will be there to make friends with the fat Tengga, who is ready to say to him, ‘I told you so’.” “I see,” murmured... ...oth and ashes in his hair, and Tengga whom she could imagine from hearsay, fat, good-tempered, crafty, but ready to spill blood on his ambitious way a... ...stling in a great hissing of water midst clouds of steam. The image of the fat Tengga’s consternation appealed to Jorgenson’s sense of humour for abou...

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...waiter runs with it, his fin- ger stuck in the bottle instead of a cork, a fat raisin in the neck, and when it has done frothing and foaming there is ... ...everywhere of an indifferent variety . Fiery landscapes, purple seascapes, fat naked women with pink-coloured knees 101 Turgenev and elbows, and “The... ... the window …. He has thrust his head out!” but the place indicated by his fat little finger with the nail raised was just as smooth as the rest of th... ...ven indicated the nails. “Look,” Fomishka observed, pointing with the same fat little finger to four semi-circular spots on the white ground, close to... ...n is saying? We are both wicked sinners, Pharisees… . We are living on the fat of the land, oh! oh! oh! We ought to be turned out into the street … wi...

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...show of grandfathers and grandmothers, if there was one like Uncle Roger’s fat cattle shows. You know she thinks nothing of walking twice to church on... ...bow on the part of the heir apparent, when about to change places with his fat friend, was strongly suspected of being for the purpose of turning over... ... leaf. It was with great spirit that the parting appeal was given, “Banish fat Jack, and banish all the world!” And there was great applause when fat ... ... so will Philip.” “And is Fanny Evans as pretty as ever?” “Oh! grown quite fat and coarse,” said Jessie; “but you may judge for yourself on Monday. De...

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...wn low over his stomach, which was rather protuberant, for he was somewhat fat. He wore blue trousers, black silk stockings, and shoes with ribbon tie... ... trinkets, was under the yoke of this Catherine II. of commerce. Short and fat, harnessed with spectacles and a shirt-collar worn above his ears, he w... ... and in the quartier Saint- Lazare and at Tivoli, we shouldn’t be, as that fat Nucingen says, in peaseness at all. What’s the Madeleine to us?—a midge... ...live in hovels like Claparon,” said Gigonnet. “Hey! mein freint,” said the fat Nucingen to du Tillet, “you haf joust missed blaying me a bretty drick ... ...ur breakfast,” said Madame Lourdois. “You are doing well, then?” asked the fat Lourdois. “No, monsieur, I have lived from hand to mouth, that I might ...

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...ed him,—”philosophically to- tally wrong, my Marco. Those affirmatives are fat worms for the catching of fish. They are the real pretty fruit of the H... ...schief; she may do mischief; let it be only on the right Side!” “She looks fat.” “She sits doubled up and forward, don’t you see, to relieve 17 Georg... ...ve 17 George Meredith the poor donkey. Y ou, my Giulio, would call a swan fat if the neck were not always on the stretch.” “By Bacchus! what a throat... ...attles on their shroud-shirts, and a North-east wind blowing them upon our fat land. Or take a turn at the other side toward Orta, and look out for an... ...g to bed at her proper time when I am out.’ ‘Signorina,’ rejoined Zotti, a fat little round-headed man, with vivacious starting brown eyes, ‘I have on... ...we desire to see. I go to my daughter immediately, and we shall all have a fat sleep for a week, while the T edeschi hunt and stew and exhaust their n... ...iglio he encoun- tered a brother officer of one of his former regiments, a fat major on a tour of inspection, who happened to be a week behind news of... ... the hand of Clelia Guidascarpi, though her dowry was not the portion of a fat estate. Her old nurse counselled the brothers that they should consent ...

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...vement appeared to make them only the more sen sible of the ponderous and fat satisfaction of their existence. Peeping at me an instant out of their ... ...,” said Silas Foster, giving my hand a mighty squeeze. “I shall have these fat fellows hanging up by the heels, heads down ward, pretty soon, I tell ...

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...old me,” said Catherine. “That’s their merit; it’s not yours. He has grown fat and bald, and he has not made his fortune. But I can’t trust those fact... ...heart against him, and that’s why I ask you to promise.” 165 Henry James “Fat and bald”: these words presented a strange image to Catherine’s mind, o...