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...e texas deck are fenced and ornamented with clean white railings; there is a flag gal lantly flying from the jack staff; the furnace doors are open a... ...ate it all with! Ten min utes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys. Afte... ...gether and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward bound boat had its flag flying at the jack staff, and some times a duplicate on the verge s... ...gth, and presently comes swinging by, under a tremendous head of steam, with flag flying, black smoke rolling, and her entire crew of firemen and deck... ... towering from the midst (being mounted on the capstan), waving his hat or a flag, and all roaring a mighty chorus, while the parting cannons boom and... ...pparently watching each other’s slightest movement, like sentient creatures; flags drooping, the pent steam shrieking through safety valves, the black... ...boom a good bye, two red shirted heroes mounted on capstans wave their small flags above the massed crews on the forecastles, two plaintive solos ling... ...f those theorists, make up your mind that it is time to hang out your yellow flag. Yes, you are his sure victim: yet his work is not all to your hurt... ...n “at” where it isn’t needed. I heard an edu cated gentleman say, “Like the flag officer did.” His cook or his butler would have said, “Like the flag...

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...earth, a blaz ing fire, a table decorated with white cloth, bright pewter flagons, and other tempting preparations for a well cooked meal—when there ... ...days out, are only once a month.’ ‘This,’ said Mr Tappert;t gravely, ‘is a flagrant case. Put two black crosses to the name of Curzon.’ ‘If the societ... ...es, triangles, and what not, to the beating of drums, and the streaming of flags; and performed a vast number of complex evolutions, in all of which S... ...d of considerable extent. Here an immense multitude was collected, bearing flags of various kinds and sizes, but all of the same colour— blue, like th... ... my lord, between me and Dennis; and he shall carry,’ he added, tak ing a flag from the hand of a tired man who tendered it, ‘the gayest silken strea... ... which were thronged with spectators. ‘They have all turned out to see our flags and streamers? Eh, Barnaby? Why, Barnaby’s the greatest man of all th... ...reamers? Eh, Barnaby? Why, Barnaby’s the greatest man of all the pack! His flag’s the largest of the lot, the brightest too. There’s nothing in the sh... ...t? Why don’t you speak?’ 376 Barnaby Rudge Barnaby had been gazing at his flag, and looked vacantly from his questioner to Hugh. ‘He don’t understand... ...ded for her, and sent half a dozen gentlemen, every one of ‘em with a blue flag (but not half as fine as yours), to take her, in state, to a grand hou...

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...ship of your widowhood; As he who sees he must yield up the flag, Hugs it oath-swearingly! straw-drowningly. ...

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...fresh- ment alike to the ear and the taste. Mattresses, wrought of twisted flags, lay by the side of the cell; the sides, like the floor, had been rou... ... wren. Out upon him! He a leader of chivalry to deeds of glory! Give him a flagon of Rhenish to drink with his besmirched baaren- hauters and lance-kn... ...ed at a sight so unexpected and singular—for it was customary to leave all flags of truce and other communications from the enemy at an appointed plac... ...all, wrestling, roaring of songs, clattering of wine pots, and quaffing of flagons among these burly yeomen, as if they were holding some country wake... ...an raised his feeble form from the ground, another presented to him a huge flagon of wine. Incapable of speech, the old man shook his head, and waved ... ...pagans, Long Allen,” replied Henry Woodstall. “I tell thee, man, that this flagon of Cyprus will set his brains a-spinning, just in the opposite direc... ...e dervise, or whatever he was, drank—or at least seemed to drink—the large flagon to the very bottom at a single pull; and when he took it from his li... ...digest that quip of the mule?” said Richard. “Wash it down with a brimming flagon, man, or thou wilt choke upon it. Why, so—well pulled!—and now I wil... ...joyed a merry tale, and laid aside his gravity so far as to quaff a blithe flagon when secrecy ensured him against scandal. He was likewise a statesma...

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...r the most part; they went about the country wav- ing their old swords and flags, and calling ‘God save the Queen!’ and King Padella happening to be a... ...tion, and thereafter were obliged to become monks of the severest Order of Flagellants, in which state, by fasting, by vigils, by flogging (which they...

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...lling dusk they could see the lines of the rigging, the masts and the dark flag which the breeze blew out squarely behind. As the little boat sidled u... ...remarked once more pointing above, that ships all the world over flew that flag the day 8 The Voyage Out they sailed. In the minds of both the passen... ...8 The Voyage Out they sailed. In the minds of both the passengers the blue flag appeared a sinister token, and this the moment for presentiments, but ... ... Mediterranean Fleet,” he answered. “The Euphrosyne was slowly dipping her flag. Richard raised his hat. Convulsively Clarissa squeezed Rachel’s hand.... ...ve you been doing to that old chap’s grave?” he asked, pointing to the red flag which floated from the top of the stones. “We have tried to make him f...

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...hed before the King, and still less the celebrated poet and author of the ‘Flagellants’, but a doctor of much wit and learning whom M. de Paris had ta... ...ry, maid of honour to Madame, and carried on his suit in the most open and flagrant manner. The King took this for his theme, and very stiffly reproac... ...itted that in men killed and wounded, in general officers and privates, in flags and standards, they had lost more than we. The battle cost them, in f... ...lled or taken, their ammunition, artillery, baggage, and a great number of flags and standards. When we consider the extreme peril the Crown of Spain ... ... clad, officers and, soldiers, like the Swiss guards, were under arms; the flags waved, the drums beat, and the officers sa- luted with the half-pike....

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...he remainder of the meal passed off as breakfasts usually do. Conversation flagged, and people played with their teaspoons. The gentlemen looked out a... ...he City of Lon- don Ramsgate steamer was running gaily down the river. Her flag was flying, her band was playing, her passen- gers were conversing; ev... ...epends on his breaking a wessel, and he expects to do so every moment. The flageolet’s been werry ill, but he’s better, only he’s in a dreadful pruspe...

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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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...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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...he soldier shall be his brother, and both shall stand together beneath the flag of honor.’ “By the time that the rest of us who were away down there i... ...e as they did on parade in those days, when they were reared above all the flags of all the nations of Europe. The Poles could not con- tain their joy... ...ll joy and happi- ness; they make a fool of the Empress, and fly the white flag out at the windows. The Emperor’s closest friends among his generals f... ...an hear him yet, we were all crying just like children; the Eagles and the flags had been lowered as if for a funeral. Ah! and it was a funeral, I can... ... convinced that he was something more than mortal, that they respected his flag, saying that God would be displeased if any one meddled with it. So he... ...nd there on the battlefield, which was soaked with our blood, he burns his flags and his Eagles—the poor Eagles that had never been defeated, that had... ...s and its difficulties, and at the prospect the courage of youth sometimes flags. We are still serving our apprenticeship to life; we are new to the b... ...ard the merchant vessel, Sire,’ the man answered. ‘I will run up the white flag and man the brig with a few devoted followers. We will tackle the Engl...

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... by Sam, dismounted from the roof of the Eatanswill coach. Large blue silk flags were flying from the windows of the Town Arms Inn, and bills were pos... ...y and strength of the Eatanswill Blues. There was a regu lar army of blue flags, some with one handle, and some with two, exhibiting appropriate devi... ...ere were four carriage and pair, for his friends and sup porters; and the flags were rustling, and the band was play ing, and the constables were sw... ...d and long were the cheers, and mighty was the rustling of one of the blue flags, with ‘Liberty of the Press’ inscribed thereon, when the sandy head o... ...ck’s hat was knocked over his eyes, nose, and mouth, by one poke of a Buff flag staff, very early in the proceedings. He describes himself as being s... ...ue over his three cornered hat, for a sky. Over that again were a pair of flags; The Pickwick Papers 354 beneath the last button of his coat were a ... ...tions caught the people who they thought would like it, and, when the game flagged, got caught themselves. When they all tired of blind man’s buff, th...

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...e, — in vain did he try to give him a taste for glory, — al- though Cornelius, to gratify his godfather, did embark with De Ruyter upon “The Seven Pro... ...hall inform the reader in our next chapter. Chapter 10 The Jailer’s Daughter ON THE SAME EVENING Gryphus, as he brought the prisoner his mess, slipped... ...ve saved the vessel, did not suspect that the adversary had possessed himself of its precious contents, Gryphus hurled the softened bulb with all his ...

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... beheld that old, gray, castled city, high throned above the firth, with the flag of Britain flying, and the red-coat sentry pacing over all; and the ... ...nd the lives of tens of thousands trembled in the scale, and the fate of the flag of England staggered. And of all this he had no more to say than “ho...

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...tched on a drum, and beaten night after night round the streets of every garrison town in Europe. And up the heights of Alma and Spicheren, and wherev... ...e canals. There should be books in the cabin, and tobacco-jars, and some old Bur- gundy as red as a November sunset and as odorous as a violet in Apri...

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...ic sweep of the San Joaquin expanded, Titanic, before the eye of the mind, flagellated with heat, quivering and shim- mering under the sun’s red eye. ... ...w big again in his mind and imagination. His sorrow assaulted him like the flagella- tions of a fine whiplash, and his love for Angele rose again in h... ...e nor moved. There, in that moribund, ancient town, wrapped in its siesta, flagellated with heat, deserted, ignored, baking in a noon-day silence, the... ...e vio- lins, the dull bourdon of the bass viol, the liquid gurgling of the flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a ras... ... move on the part of the Railroad, the more terrible it appeared, the more flagrant, the more intolerable. Was it possible, was it within the bounds o... ...ly buy—a ship, per- haps one of Cedarquist’s, American built, the nation’s flag at the peak, and the sailing of that ship, gorged with the crops from ... ...ly sorry. He had hurt her. He had brought the tears to her eyes. He had so flagrantly insulted her that she could no longer bear to breathe the same a... ... closer together. Then, after ten days of strain, public interest began to flag. It was believed that Dyke had succeeded in getting away. If this was ... ... did, with defiant inconsistency, to miser- able weeds, black, bitter, and flagrantly doctored, which he bought, three for a nickel, at Guadalajara. P...

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... give evidence against ourselves: “Occultum quatiens animo tortore flagellum.” [“The torturer of the soul brandishing a sharp scourge within.”... ... one experimentally knows that there are some members which grow stiff and flag without his leave. Now, those passions which only touch the outward ba... ...mselves: but, this perturbation once overcome, we see that they insensibly flag and slacken of themselves, if not to the lowest degree, at least so as...

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...epul overshadowing a Hindoo shrine, from whose dome floated a tattered red flag. The holy man whose sum- mer resting-place it was had long since aband... ...s painted lead-colour with a red funnel—looked very fine indeed. Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes... ...g Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list of our mercantile ma- rine. She was a nine-hundred-ton, ir... ...in such a position that she could not help seeing an ar- rangement of four flags, a mile and a half behind, which read: “Heave to, or take the consequ... ...man- of-war, that he had been bombarded on the high seas, with the British flag -several of them—picturesquely disposed above him, and tried to find c... ...reigners are bursting with joy over the fact that a ship under the British flag has been fired at on the high seas, news travels quickly; and when it ... ...es, swabs, squeegees; all cabin and pantry lamps; galley-fittings en bloc; flags and flag-locker; clocks, chronom- eters; the forward compass and the ... ...tewashed coal ready for supply, the deserted huts for the sailors, and the flagless flagstaff. Next day there was no Haliotis—only a little proa rocki... ...r hundred dancers went round and round till the draped 149 The Day’s Work flags on the pillars flapped and bellied to the whirl of it. About midnight...

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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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... Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His tit... ...se Enough to make for port, ere time shall summon With his grey signal flag; and the past tense, The dreary ‘Fuimus’ of all things human, ...

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...e and chapel T o rubbish and ruins are turn’d. Yet when with lute and with flagon, When day was smiling and bright, I’ve watch’d my mistress climbing ... ... half-measures strive to wean us, Wholly, fairly, well demean us, Resting, flagging never. At all blockheads we’ll at once Let our laugh ring clearly,... ... his giant shoulders; flutt’ring In the breeze far, far above him Thousand flags are gaily floating, Bearing witness to his might. And so beareth he h...

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... they will rebound from his brain as an india- rubber ball rebounds from a flagstone. Nevertheless, wip- ing away the perspiration, Chichikov resolved... ...own reason, firstly, Bagration*—tall and thin, and with a cluster of small flags and cannon beneath him, and the whole set in the narrowest of frames—...

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...e suspicion, and, for the rest, it was doing a man of honour, like Philip, flagrant injustice to suspect him of originating slanders. He was, of cours... ...d guess what he is without seeing him. He is so patient, his spirits never flag; and it is beautiful to see how considerate he is, and what interest h... ... find the time for the wedding so near at hand. Charles’s spirits began to flag, Amy was a greater loss to him than to anybody else; she could never a...

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...m carried a little brass figure of an eagle on a long pole, with a scarlet flag flying below, and wherever the eagle was seen, they all followed, and ... ...ng up to the shore, with a serpent for the figure-head, and a raven as the flag, and crowds of fierce warriors with axes in their hands longing for pr... ...ssible. They all wore red crosses on their sleeves, and put up a red-cross flag over the houses where they were taking care of the sick and wounded, a...

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...most as much soldiering and recruiting, parading, pike and gun-exercising, flag-flying, drum-beating, powder-blaz- ing, and military enthusiasm, as we... ...e, “from taking hold of you, as a surety for him?” “You wouldn’t fire on a flag of truce, would ye, you dishonourable ould civilian?” replied Mr. Macs... ...ety, and soon let them know the con- tempt he felt for them. After a third flagon of ale, he discov- ered that the liquor was sour, and emptied, with ... ...then rose into the utmost gaiety and good-humour. When the doubtful battle flagged, he by his art would instantly restore it. When, for instance, Tom’... ...x was at a little distance from Catherine, pacing gloomily up and down the flags. She remained at her old position at the tomb- stone under the tree, ... ...t came back to seek for him in the churchyard, he was found sitting on the flags, staring full at the head, and laughing, and talking to it wildly, an...

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...oles in the Form of Rafters lean ing against the Rock, and load them with Flaggs and large Leaves of Trees like a Thatch. December 10th, I began now ... ...USOE lay upon the Beach of the Sea, with his Hands and his Feet ty’d, with Flags, or Things like Rushes; and that he was an European, and had Cloaths ... ...dead. While my Man Friday fir’d at them, I pull’d out my Knife, and cut the Flags that bound the poor Victim, and loosing his Hands, and Feet, I lifted... ..., that he had really but little Life in him. I immediately cut the twisted Flags, or Rushes, which they had bound him with, and would have helped him ...

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..., having hearkened with lowered tails and raised faces, would run up their flags again to the masthead and spread themselves upon the indicated circui... ...with humorous or grave intention, and all the while, never hur- rying, nor flagging, nor taking an unfair advantage of the facts. Jack at a given mome... ...ss what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.” He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune a... ... feeling for romance, this famous touch 116 Robert Louis Stevenson of the flageolet and the old song is selected by Miss Braddon for omission. Miss B... ... to old Mr. Bertram on the road, the ruins of Derncleugh, the scene of the flageolet, and the Dominie’s recognition of Harry, are the four strong note... ...be a reversion or complement of the main intrigue; suffer not his style to flag below the level of the argument; pitch the key of conversation, not wi...

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...an book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction... ... highly of our sublunary tapers. The universe is so large that imagination flags in the effort to conceive it; but here, in the meantime, is the world... ...ap- pointed, and the whole book will be no more to you than a particularly flagrant production by the Poet Close. A writer of this uncertain quality w... ...s but a poor performance. He would make better verses on the lee-side of a flagon at the sign of the Pomme du Pin, than in a cushioned settle in the h... ...rned 179 Familiar Studies of Men & Books to play the lute, the flute, the flageolet, and the theorbo, and it was not the fault of his intention if he... ...wait for a dish of poached eggs, he must put in the time by playing on the flageolet; if a sermon were dull, he must read in the book of T obit or div...

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...he subscriptions afterwards were more free and gener ous; but, beginning to flag, I saw they would be insufficient without some assistance from the A...

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...epul overshadowing a Hindoo shrine, from whose dome floated a tattered red flag. The holy man whose summer resting-place it was had long since abandon...

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...one Failure.” 166 Robert Louis Stevenson It had been, it appeared, a very flagrant case. Thousands of persons were reduced to poverty; and one in par... ...l infallibly perish before the night was out. Meantime the Italian put his flag of truce into his pocket, and disappeared, at a leisurely pace, among ... ...eat seigneur,” thought Villon, as his host, set- ting down the lamp on the flagged pavement of the entry, shot the bolts once more into their places. ... ...ining the room, with the stealth and passion of a cat. He weighed the gold flagons in his hand, opened all the folios, and investigated the arms upon ... ...was swallowed up and carried away by the wind. The night fell swiftly; the flag of England, fluttering on the spire-top, grew ever fainter and fainter...

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...she have know all that lady did for her. Frank’s love was never allowed to flag. When he spoke of the difficulties in his way, she twitted him by bein...

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...ntine hospital until such time as it might be safe to pull down the yellow flag. They were about half-way on their road to Hogglestock, when they were...

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...d by something like a palisade, from which an old and dingy looking Chilian flag was flying. This, of course, was dignified by the title of Presidio... ...e sun about an hour high, and every- thing looking pleasantly. The Mexican flag was flying from the little square Presidio, and the drums and trump... ..., men appointed to each, cartridges served out, matches lighted, and all the flags ready to be run up. I took my place at the starboard after gun, an... ...e surrounding hills and over the bay, and instantly the ship was dressed in flags and pennants from stem to stern. Twenty three guns followed in regu... ...t sun down, another salute of the same number of guns was fired, and all the flags run down. This we thought was pretty well—a gun every fifteen secon... ...the rooms, (with a particular account of the furniture, including a dozen flag bottomed chairs, which he always dilated upon, whenever the subject... ...off, like Bob’s horse, with nobody to pay the reckoning;’’ furniture gone,—flag bottomed chairs and all;—and with it, his ‘‘long togs,’’ the half pa... ...of counsel, when everything else has failed. I have known cases of the most flagrant nature, where after every effort has been made for the captain, ... ...e on so grand a scale,—where I have seen a man plough a furrow by little red flags on sticks, to keep his range by, until nearly out of sight, and whe...