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...ing hastily in the order books. They all seemed to know one another, these grand ladies from the fashionable avenue. Meetings took place here and ther... ...McT eague had told Marcus of his success with Trina. Marcus had taken on a grand air. “You’ve got her, have you? Well, I’m glad of it, old man. I am, ... ...huge spectacles and trying to smoke an enormous pipe. This was called “I’m Grandpa,” the title being printed in large black letters; the compan- ion p... ... printed in large black letters; the compan- ion picture was entitled “I’m Grandma,” a little girl in cap and “specs,” wearing mitts, and knitting. Th... ...curls, and coral brooch; Marcus Schouler, his arms folded, his brows bent, grand and gloomy; Heise the harness-maker, in yellow gloves, intently study... ...e silence of high noon lay close and thick between the steep slopes of the canyons like an invisible, muffling fluid. At intervals the drone of an ins... ... their blood, ex- tracting gold. Here and there at long distances upon the canyon sides rose the headgear of a mine, surrounded with its few un- paint... ... him at the exact spot. The trail zigzagged down the abrupt descent of the canyon, debouching into a grav- elly river bed. “Indian River,” muttered th... ...stinct deceive him. He recog- nized familiar points at once. Here was Cold Canyon, where invariably, winter and summer, a chilly wind was blowing; her...

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...s undisturbed. But there they bide their hour, awaiting their Columbus; and nature nurses and pre- pares them. The smack of Californian earth shall li... ...ntered on “the grade.” The road mounts the near shoul- der of Mount Saint Helena, bound northward into Lake County. In one place it skirts along the e... ... water-tank, and stables, and a gray house of two stories, with gable ends and a verandah, are jammed hard against the hillside, just where a stream h... ...erily accompany- ing us. For about a furlong we followed a good road alone, the hillside through the forest, until suddenly that road widened out and ... ...cross the parapet. It was down this that they poured the precious ore; and below here the carts stood to wait their lading, and carry it mill- ward do... ...- way opening on the air of heaven, five feet above the ground. As for the third room, which entered squarely from the ground level, but higher up the... ...6 THE ACT OF SQUATTING here were four of us squatters – myself and my wife, the King and Queen of Silverado; Sam, the Cro... ...less days; and if he had seen a flute, I am sure he could have played upon it by nature. It may seem hard to say it of a dog, but Chuchu was a tame ca... ...nly by the tinkling water in the shaft, or a stir of the royal family about the battered palace, and my mind has gone back to the epoch of the Stanley...

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...sta held the grant of Los Muertos in those days,” the centenarian said; “a grand man. He had the power of life and death over his people, and there wa... ...ppointed.” “And the girl?” demanded Presley. “She never knew. Ah, he was a grand gentleman, De La Cuesta. Always he treated her as a queen. Never was ... ...r- ing the old man a cigarette. The centenarian accepted with the air of a grandee, and extended his horn snuff- 19 Frank Norris box. Presley shook h... ...sunset; the still, gigantic moun- tains, heaving into the sky from out the canyons; the strenuous, fierce life of isolated towns, lost and forgotten, ... ... of the desert, the glory of the sunset, the blue haze of the mesa and the canyon.” “As you have done, for instance?” Vanamee nodded. “No, I could not... ...our in the afternoon, Presley reached the spring at the head of the little canyon in the northeast corner of the Quien Sabe ranch, the point toward wh... ... The place was not without its charm. Innumer- able live-oaks overhung the canyon, and Broderson Creek—there a mere rivulet, running down from the spr... ... as the leader. He him- self was proud of this distinction; he assumed the grand manner very easily and carried it well. As a public speaker he was on... ...rable specimen of pure, well- chosen English. He loved to do things upon a grand scale, to preside, to dominate. In his good humour there was somethin...

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...er to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in Ne... ...1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortune of about a million. Her maternal grand- father was E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N. Y., a noted author and ... ...ar shoes. She talks flippantly to her parents and men old enough to be her grandfather. She has a prescriptive right to the soci- ety of the man who a... ...ll, and we two marvelled as children marvel. “This evening we shall do the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,” said the maiden. “Together?” said I; and ... ...d we two marvelled as children marvel. “This evening we shall do the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,” said the maiden. “Together?” said I; and she sa... ... I followed with the others round the corner to arrive at the brink of the canyon. We had to climb up a nearly perpendicular ascent to begin with, for... ...h the pines that shadowed us, but the full glory of the day flamed in that canyon as we went out very cautiously to a jutting piece of rock—blood-red ... ... An’ I found down below there two stones just marked with a picture of the canyon. I wouldn’t sell these rocks not for fifteen dollars.” And papa and ... ...I don’t think it was the blind hurry of the people, their argot, and their grand ignorance of things beyond their immediate interests that displeased ...

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...y morning now.” “Huh! You must be frightfully old—prob’ly too old to be my granddaughter, I guess!” Thus in the Vale of Arcady nymph and satyr beguile... ...rty cents!” “Yaaaaaah!” snarled Mr. Stowbody. “Course. She’s just like her grandad was. Never save a cent. Two dollars and twenty—thirty, was it?—two ... ...d not draw, over the slipperiness of fish in the pan. Like a child playing Grandma in a trailing skirt, Carol paraded uptown for her marketing, crying... ...e than 78 Main Street twenty-five hundred dollars a year, or possessed of grand- parents born in America. Even while they were removing their oversho... ...good, this weather! Raymond Wutherspoon says if he had my energy he’d be a grand opera singer. I always think this climate is the finest in the world,... ...APTER XXXIV They journeyed for three and a half months. They saw the Grand Canyon, the adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexic...

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... 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The S...

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... Bˆ atard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 All Gold Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Love of Life . .... ...s daughter’s daughter, but she was too busy to waste a thought upon her broken grandfather, sitting alone there in the snow, forlorn and helpless. Cam... ...ed his grip on life by what remained. If Sit cum to ha had only remembered her grandfather, and gathered a larger armful, his hours would have been lo... ...oment, and went suddenly limp. But his teeth still held fast locked. All Gold Canyon 10 I T WAS the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerve... ...with here and there patches of color, orange and purple and golden. Below, the canyon was shut in. There was no view. The walls leaned together abrupt... ...yon was shut in. There was no view. The walls leaned together abruptly and the canyon ended in a chaos of rocks, moss covered and hidden by a green sc... ...cision. “Make it sixteen thousand, make it sixteen thousand,” Klakee Nah said grandly. “Odd numbers were ever a worry. And now — and it is for this t... ... being the best sustained char acter at the Butchers and Meat Workers’ annual grand masked ball. And Bill Totts liked the girls and the girls liked h... ...ed to cover him. Crouched around him, on their hams, were three young men, his grandsons, Deer Runner, Yellow Head, and Afraid of the Dark. In appear...

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..............492 By Broad Potomac’s Shore................493 From Far Dakota’s Canyons (June 25, 1876)............................................494 O... ..........................559 The Unexpress’d...............................559 Grand Is the Seen..............................560 Unseen Buds.............. ...himself is, and how certain the future is. I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion, Otherwise there is just ... ...States must be their religion, Otherwise there is just no real and permanent grandeur; (Nor character nor life worthy the name without religion, Nor l... ...as of glory incessant and branching, A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests, New politics, new literatures and religio... ...ngs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw, Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them, In walls of adobie, in canvas ... ...hitman 493 FROM F AR D AKOTA’S C ANYONS (J UNE 25, 1876) From far Dakota’s canyons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch,... ... Were all so justified. SPIRIT T HAT F ORM’D T HIS S CENE (Written in Platte Canyon, Colorado) Spirit that form’d this scene, These tumbled rock piles... ...ld not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmi...

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...mme le jour prochaine est mon jour de naisance je vous ecrit ce lettre. Ma grande gatteaux est arrive il leve 12 livres et demi le prix etait 17 shill... ...is presque driven mad par une bruit terrible tous les garcons kik up comme grand un bruit qu’ll est possible. I hope you will find your house at Mento... ...uld. Try, by way of change, Byron’s Mazeppa; you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a ... ...edevilled; they are sly and grotesque; they combine their sort of feverish grandeur with their sort of secretive baseness, after the manner of a Charl... ...west coast of Scotland, sloops, etc. The first scene where they make their grand schemes and get drunk is supposed to be very funny, by Henley. I real... ...e that was in my power. Most blameable. I now send (for Mrs. Gosse). Black Canyon. Also an advertisement of my new appearance as poet (bard, rather) a...