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... 88 A LITTLE PREP ........................................................................................................................... 106 THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY ........................................................................................... 124 THE LAST TERM ................................................................................................

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..................................................................... 106 THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY ........................................................ ... him move in the bushes, go straight across to Aves. They want to catch us flagrante delicto.” They dived into the gorse at right angles to the tunnel... ...shing. Go on, Beetle—from ‘jugurtha tamen’—and, if you can, avoid the more flagrant forms of guessing.” Prout’s house was furious because Macrea’s and... ...ils!” “It’s the olive branch,” was Stalky’s comment. “It’s the giddy white flag, by gum! Come to think of it, we have metagrobolized ‘em.” Just after... ...ed the animal. Et ego— McT urk, please—in Arcadia vixi. There’s a certain flagrant injustice about this that ought to appeal to—your tempera- ment. A... ...gan.” “But look here, why aren’t we wrathy with the Head? He said it was a flagrant injustice. So it is!” said Beetle. “Dear man,” said McT urk, and v... ...u are a funny ass! What’s that for?” said Beetle. “I’m—I’m thinking of the flagrant injustice of it!” Rudyard Kipling THE MORAL REFORMERS THERE WAS N... ...d, in a little business which we have agreed to forget, that strikes me as flagrant injustice …. What are you laughing at, you young sinners? Isn’t it... ... It’s a way we have at the Public Schools, Which nobody can deny!” THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY IT WA S WINTER and bitter cold of mornings. Consequen...

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...TREES .................................................................................................................................... 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .................................................................................................... 6 JOURNEY......................................................................................................

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.................................................................. 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .............................................................. ...9 Edna St. Vincent Millay There, encompassed round by fire, Stood a blue-flag in a bog! Little flames came wading out, Straining, straining toward... ...r, Son and Holy Ghost, Reach a hand and rescue me! “There—there, my blue-flag flower; Hush—hush—go to sleep; That is only God you hear, Counting...

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...Excerpt: ?Halloa! Below there!? When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the t...

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... voice thus calling to him, he was stand ing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, co... ...ming away over the landscape, I looked down again, and saw him refurling the flag he had shown while the train went by. I repeated my inquiry. After a... ... he seemed to regard me with fixed attention, he motioned with his rolled up flag towards a point on my level, some two or three hundred yards distant... ...ages, and send replies. Once he had to stand without the door, and display a flag as a train passed, and make some verbal communication to the driver....

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...iful in itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

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...for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.” “Oh, Rachel.” “Ah, ha! If Rachel be an old maid, what is Gr... ...Fanny opened her brown eyes, and awaited the words of wisdom. “Is it not a flagrant abuse,” continued Rachel, “that whether she have a vocation or not... ...’ or her velvet will be a scandal. I can’t wear out that at home like this flagrant, flowery thing, that I saw Miss Curtis looking at as rather a disr... ...this child on her hands.” “I know,” said Mr. T ouchett, “but really it was flagrant.” “Oh,” said Lady T emple, gently, “I dare say she didn’t mean it,... ...to the arched yew-tree entrance to his garden, up two stone steps, along a flagged path across the narrow grass-plat in front of the old two-storied h...

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... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ...hipped. The moment the sarcophagus touched the cutter, a magnificent royal flag, which the ladies of James Town had embroidered for the occasion, was ... ...n all its festal ornaments to receive the imperial coffin under the French flag. The sarcophagus was covered in the cutter with the imperial mantle. T... ...their hands. The Prince had had arranged on the deck a chapel, decked with flags and trophies of arms, the altar being placed at the foot of the mizze... ... fired a last salute with all their artillery, and the frigate took in her flags, keeping up only her flag at the stern and the royal standard at the ... ...the suspension-bridge a magnifi- cent cenotaph was erected, decorated with flags, fasces, violet hangings, and the imperial arms. Before the ceno- tap... ... the victories of the Em- peror, and each decorated with enormous imperial flags. On these columns golden eagles were placed; and the newspapers did n...

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...an summon parliaments; it does not follow they will assemble. If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war. But so he could before, when he was... ... like the scales of a balance, one down, the other up. Tamasese raised his flag (Jan. 28th, 1886) in Leulumoenga, chief place of his own province of A... ...cross the Mulivai, and “had the coolness” (German expression) to hoist his flag in Apia. He was asked “in the most polite manner,” says the same accou... ... a reader of Marryat might be tempted to amend the phrase, – to strike his flag in his own capital; and on his “refusal to accede to this request,” Dr... ...7 Robert Louis Stevenson sailor climbed into the tree and brought down the flag of Samoa, which was carefully folded, and sent, “in the most polite ma... .... Stuebel had attached the municipality of Apia and hoisted the German war-flag over Mulinuu; the American consul (in a sudden access of good service)... ...treaty; by the choice of Germany, he was not so much as allowed to fly his flag there. And the denial of justice (if justice were denied) rested with ... ...dnesday the 24th of August, Germany had practically seized Samoa. For this flagrant breach of faith one excuse is openly alleged; another whispered. I... ...amoan king; and it would enable them to substitute over the royal seat the flag of Germany for the new flag of Tamasese. It is true (and it was the su...

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...ark battle line lay upon a sunstruck clearing that gleamed orange color. A flag fluttered. Other regiments floundered up the bank. The brigade was for... ... Badge of Courage and his fellows were frozen to silence. They could see a flag that tossed in the smoke angrily. Near it were the blurred and agitate... ... wound. And they disputed as to how the binding should be done. The battle flag in the distance jerked about madly. It seemed to be struggling to free... ... grew in numbers until it was seen that the whole command was fleeing. The flag suddenly sank down as if dying. Its motion as it fell was a gesture of... ...yells. They came on, stoop- ing and swinging their rifles at all angles. A flag, tilted forward, sped near the front. As he caught sight of them the y... ...ries were speaking with thunderous ora-torical effort. Here and there were flags, the red in the stripes dominating. They splashed bits of warm color ... ...ms begin to swell in masses out of a distant wood. He again saw the tilted flag speeding forward. The shells, which had ceased to trouble the regiment... ...ephen Crane yellow in the sunrays and in the shadow were a sorry blue. The flag was sometimes eaten and lost in this mass of vapor, but more often it ... ...aces. The blue of the line was crusted with steel color, and the brilliant flags projected. Of- ficers were shouting. This sight also filled him with ...

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... self-vivisection, and its pulsating dis- sepiments’ adorned with emphatic flag labels. Confronted they were, and there was no getting away from it. H... ... most home-like and comfortable quality, and it was made gayer by abundant flags. Along the road a quantity of peas- ant folk, in big pair-wheeled car... ...ng gestures. Then,the car hit the roof of the gatehouse smartly, snapped a flag staff, played a tune upon some telegraph wires, and sent a broken wire... ...ert Dervish was hanging, an appeal for consideration, an ineffectual white flag. He was now very distinctly aware that the world below him, so far fro... ... of languages. Official-looking per- sons had signalled to him by means of flag flapping and arm waving. On the whole a guttural variant of English pr... ... spent in war material to the making of men. Instead of which they waggled flags at him until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned h... ...ven’t realised. You’ve just caught us by a neck. You’re on the blessed old flagship with the Prince. You won’t miss any- thing. Whatever’s on, you bet... ... said the young man, taking pains to be explicit, “is an airship. It’s the flagship of Prince Karl Albert. This is the German air-fleet, and it is goi... ...- ers, under a black eagle with widespread wings and the Ger- man Imperial flags; he was, as it were, enthroned, and it 81 H G Wells struck Bert grea...

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...ith a paper knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on ... ... were to conquer or die. The enemy appeared, approached. Waving his black flag, the colonel attacked. Confusion ensued. Anxiously I awaited my sign... ...t through, and seeing Boldheart slashing a path towards him, hauled down his flag himself, gave up his sword “Holiday Romance” Charles Dickens 21 t... ... towards him. On his firing a gun ahead of her to bring her to, she ran up a flag, which he instantly recognised as the flag from the mast in the bac... ...ies of joy. Before ‘The Beauty’ could get under way, the hoisting of all the flags in the town and harbour, and the ringing of all the bells, announce...

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...ien boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil Was firing the can... ...l superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. “The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, “Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe... ...e greatest power in Europe.” And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And... ...As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And followed the flag till I saw it raised By our camp in a rice field near Manila, And all ... ...f fear To the hour of the charge through the steaming swamp, Following the flag, 101 Edgar Lee Masters Till I fell with a scream, shot through the gu... ...ee Masters Till I fell with a scream, shot through the guts. Now there’s a flag over me in Spoon River. A flag! A flag! John Wasson OH! the dew-wet gr... ...y, scourges, death— If Harry Wilmans who fought the Filipinos Is to have a flag on his grave Take it from mine. 102 Spoon River Anthology Many Soldie... ...e. 102 Spoon River Anthology Many Soldiers THE idea danced before us as a flag; The sound of martial music; The thrill of carrying a gun; Advancement... ...n James HARRY WILMANS! Y ou who fell in a swamp Near Manila, following the flag Y ou were not wounded by the greatness of a dream, Or destroyed by ine...

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...ope) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board one of the grandest of 4 Notes on a Journey from ... ...ntry church, and on going on deck we found an awning raised, a desk with a flag flung over it close to the compass, and the ship’s company and passeng... ... considerably under the value of a farthing,—streamed out. “They know that flag, sir,” said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening a... ...emains the recollection of the fine city and the blue sea, and the Spanish flags floating on the boats that danced over it, and Joinville’s band begin... ...up the huge mountain, from the tower nestled at the foot of it to the thin flagstaff at the summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edi... ...t was pleasant, certainly, to laugh at 21 Thackeray Joinville’s admiral’s flag floating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thunderin... ...ful pleasure. There she lay—the huge sea-castle—bearing the unconquerable flag of our country. She had but to open her jaws, as it were, and she migh... ...with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, jumping over... ...Grand Cairo mids, and along the vast rock-galleries, and up to the topmost flagstaff, where the sentry can look out over two seas, poor fellows are ma...

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... some time Messrs. Sigg judged it expedient to transfer her to the Siamese flag. At the news of the contemplated transfer Jukes grew rest- less, as if... ...r of a man who knows the value of a good billet. The first morning the new flag floated over the stern of the Nan-Shan Jukes stood looking at it bitte... ...dge. He struggled with his feelings for a while, and then remarked, “Queer flag for a man to sail under, sir.” “What’s the matter with the flag?” inqu... ...room, and opened his International Signal Code-book at the plate where the flags of all the nations are correctly figured in gaudy rows. He ran his fi... ...r the purpose of comparing the coloured drawing with the real thing at the flagstaff astern. When 12 Typhoon next Jukes, who was carrying on the duty... ... on the bridge, his com- mander observed: “There’s nothing amiss with that flag.” “Isn’t there?” mumbled Jukes, falling on his knees before a deck-loc... ...n the middle. I thought the people ashore would know how to make the local flag. Stands to reason. Y ou were wrong, Jukes… .” “Well, sir,” began Jukes... ...re, I take it, stands for something in the nature of the Union Jack in the flag… .” “Does it!” yelled Jukes, so that every head on the Nan- Shan’s dec... ...n’t a British ship now. These brutes know it well, too. The damned Siamese flag.” “We are on board, all the same,” remarked Captain MacWhirr. “The tro...

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...ell about. Great rejoicings, to be sure, were made on our arrival. All the flags in the place were hoisted, all the guns in the place were fired, and ... ...f the anchorage. On the right was a sort of barrack, with a South American Flag and the Union Jack, flying from the same staff, where the little Engli... ...xpectations. But, I presume you know that these villains under their black flag have despoiled our countrymen of their property, burnt their homes, ba... ...e-drunk—but, they all seemed one or the other— came forward with the black flag, and gave it a wave or two. After that, the Portuguese captain called ... ... he began), said it again in English. It was only this. “Boys of the black flag, this is to be quickly done. Take all the prisoners you can. If they d... ...most atrocious deeds that ever stained it? The howling, mur- dering, black-flag waving, mad, and drunken crowd of devils that had overcome us by numbe...

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...ost before the sun goes down. This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its ‘Drapeau Rouge:’ in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, h... ...e name of the High- est, under the eye of the Highest; imagination herself flag- ging under the reality; and all noblest Ceremony as yet not grown cer... ...rand, another than that of Jacob, is on all the Eighty- three departmental flags of France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towar... ...tter still more questionably: Chateau-Vieux, far from marching, ‘waves red flags out of two carriages, ’ in a passionate manner, along the streets; an... ...Onward like a Planet, by appointed times, by law of Nature! What next? Lo, flag of truce and chamade; conjuration to halt: Malseigne and Denoue are on... ... The winter is hard and cold; ragged Bakers’-queues, like a black tattered flag-of- distress, wave out ever and anon. It is the third of our Hunger-ye... ...t the sight of Martial Law; which neverthe- less waving its Red sanguinary Flag, advances there, from the Gros-Caillou Entrance; advances, drumming an... ...Simoneau, Mayor of Etampes, in this North- ern region, hanging out his Red Flag in some riot of grains, is trampled to death by a hungry exasperated P... ... and with the boast that it is Seventy thousand: most strange to see; with flags flying, bayonets fixed; with Proclamation, and d’Artois Commission of...

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...true. He and my countrymen in your Majesty’s service stood under the green flag in the breach of Burgos, and beat Wellington back. It was the only tim... ...and very nearly six feet in length, completed this elegant costume. My two flags were each surmounted with a real skull and cross-bones, and ornamente... ...d beard (of enormous length, taken from men slain in battle by me). On one flag were of course the arms of John Company; on the other, an image of mys... ...ordi- nary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure. On the top of this my flag was planted, and the small garrison of forty men only were comfortably... ...e running to me, saying that a Mahratta soldier was before the gate with a flag of truce! “I went down, rightly conjecturing, as it turned out, that t... ... good fortune for that, and passed boldly out of the fortress, bearing the flag of truce as before; I had scarcely passed on a couple of hundred yards... ...ormed its garrison, and were keeping watch on the roof—each roof bearing a flagstaff twenty feet long on its top, the crescent glit- tering with a tho... ...the figure. The ruffians were mustered in front, the cavalry be- hind. The flags were flying, the drums, gongs, tambourines, vio- loncellos, and other...

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...And heard a thousand briny songs. 21 Her mission with her manly crew, Her flag unfurl’d, her title told, She took the Old World to the New, And broug... ...black to white, Like parson into lawny bishop. IX The elms and yellow reed-flags in the sun, Look on quite grave:—the sunlight flecks his side; And li... ... entered it Serjeant-Major,”—and now he commands a salute, And carries the flag of old England! Heigh! see him lift foes on his foot! XIII ‘—An offic... ...e pleasures pure, Sureties as the stars are sure: Not the wanton beckoning flags Which, of flattery and delight, Wax to the grim Habit-Hags Riding sou... ...ag, Where the goatherds in piping recline, Have whimsical stops, burst and flag Uncorrected as outstretched swine: For the fingers are slack and unsur... ...the reed. Flushing like the dogwood crimson in October; Streaming like the flag-reed South-west blown; Flashing as in gusts the sudden-lighted whitebe... ...n rise, Though it should slay our best. XXV The Crown it furled a draggled flag, It sheathed a broken blade. Behold its triumph in the hag That lives ... ...aiting: fair as dawn Wrapped in folds of night she lay; Secret, lustrous; flaglike there, Waiting him to stream and ray, With one loosening blush out... ...utcries of affright, 278 Voices that through many a fray, In the press of flag and spear, Warned the king of peril near? Men were dumb, they gave him...

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...rom Legislative, from the individual Patriot, flame monitory on all walls. Flags of Danger to Fatherland wave at the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Pont Neuf—... ..., strong Danton, whatsoever man is strong! Read- ers can judge whether the Flag of Country in Danger flapped soothing or distractively on the souls of... ...ory, of the Cercle So- cial. Sharp was the death-hail rattling round one’s Flag-of- truce, on that Bastille day: but it was soft to such wreck- age of... ...g the fire-cross from Town to Town, till all France blaze. And so there is Flag of Fatherland in Danger waving from the Townhall, Black Flag from the ... ...there is to be business. ’ And Megaera women perambulate the streets, with flags, with lamentable alleleu. (Meillan, Memoires, p. 195; Buzot, pp. 69, ... ...o Bourdeaux! cries the general voice, of Valour alike and of Despair. Some flag of Respectability still floats there, or is thought to float. Thitherw... ...t fleur-de-lys, in the name of a new Louis the Pretender; but the Austrian flag flies; as if Austria meant to keep them for herself! Perhaps General C... ...e’s New Calendar getting ready? On all house- tops flicker little tricolor Flags, their flagstaff a Pike and Liberty-Cap. On all house-walls, for no P... ...ous Powers,—into the hands of the English! On Toulon Arsenal there flies a Flag,—nay not even the Fleur-de-lys of a Louis Pretender; there flies that ...

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... the shore, we turned and saw from the vessel’s mast her name signalled in flags of joyous colours, and fluttering by their side the beautiful America... ...trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers re vive; the cooks pause in their savoury... ...s of snow; white wooden houses; people at their doors; telegraphs working; flags hoisted; wharfs appearing; ships; quays crowded with people; distant ... ... his success, at least in gaining approbation. His attention then began to flag, and I commenced playing with him. It was evident that in all this he ... ... shipping, in one of the narrow, old, water side streets, with a gay blue flag waving freely from its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit wer... ...done to the others. No harm at all. Those that want to be safe, must hoist flags. That’s all they’ll have to do. They must hoist flags. ’ Even while h... ...reground a forest of ships’ masts, cheery with flap ping sails and waving flags. Crossing from among them to the opposite shore, were steam ferry—boa... ...indow at the little dog below. You wonder what may be the use of this tall flagstaff in the by street, with something like Liberty’s head dress on its... ... Liberty’s head dress on its top: so do I. But there is a passion for tall flagstaffs hereabout, and you may see its twin brother in five minutes, if ...

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... a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’clock as if in honour of our arrival. It would have been a... ...f war-scarred three-deckers, and shredded out in mere sport the bunting of flags hallowed in the traditions of honour and glory. He is a good friend a... ... straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock- gates. Mast-heads and f... ...n the decks of small coasters, and made sore by miles of tramping upon the flagstones of the dock side, had hurried up in time to avert a ridicu- lous... ...gnal-mast with yard and gaff, flying a couple of dingy blue, red, or white flags. This New South Dock (it was its official name), round which my earli... ... after his unsatisfactory day 105 Joseph Conrad slumbers, hauled down the flags and fastened a lighted lantern at the break of the gangway. The night... ...ots, and tug- men; from the hail of gruff voices and the flutter of signal flags exchanged between ships closing upon 113 Joseph Conrad each other an... ...on the skylight brusquely, and began to walk about the poop. “A shirt or a flag,” he ejaculated irritably. “Can’t make it out… Some damn rag or other!...