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...h thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast cho sen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name: 39 Then hear tho... ...olomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have cho sen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up heaven ... ... was come to Jerusalem, he gath ered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hun dred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight ... ... he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had cho sen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’... ... slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hun dred thousand chosen men. Second Chronicles 13:7 – 13:17 26 18 Thus t... ...undred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hun dred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour. Seco... ...st them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hun dred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. 10 Then Asa went out against hi... ...hield two hundred thousand. 18 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hun dred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war. 19 These waite...

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...rk of the Comte de Gondreville. But when it comes to an election, what are sen- timents! This Scene is written for the information of countries so unf... ... themselves; for, after 1830, it represented only the pretensions of a few hun- gry democrats. Nevertheless, this word had still a great effect upon A... ...ends left col- lege together and were sent to Paris. A place had been cho- sen for Dorlange in the atelier of the sculptor Bosio, and from that moment... ...s mysterious dwarf, bethought himself of making over to Gaston the fifteen hun- dred francs paid to him by the government for the “prix de Rome.” But ... ...enods’; and find- ing there, sure enough, in actual, living money, the two hun- dred and fifty thousand francs announced to me, I was led to reason in...

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...“that decent people can settle such things in two words. I will give you a hun- dred roubles a month and all travelling expenses. Will you come? Nejda... ...he thought to him- self. “What a good thing this gentleman suggested it. A hun- dred roubles … a hundred from my brothers—their excel- lencies… . I wa... ...tened to the wise, courteous, patronising speeches of his host, received a hun- dred roubles, and ten days later was leaning back in the plush seat of... ...hinking of any- thing in particular, but gave himself up to those peculiar sen- sations of spring which in the heart of young and old alike are always... ...esh as can be. The question is this: do you want to see how people lived a hun- dred or a hundred and fifty years ago? If so, then make haste and foll... ... petty little gro- cers’ shops, or lending the peasants corn or money at a hun- dred or a hundred and fifty percent, as many of our landed gentry are ...

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...rs as with the voice of a bird. Its stately head, blue as a sapphire on the paler azure of the sky, spoke to us of wider out- looks and the bright Pac... ... with the same shrewd smirk. If the boy said there was “a hole there in the hill” – a hole, pure and simple, neither more nor less – Kelmar and his Je... ...erhead, and its surface shone and undulated like a great nor’land moor country, sheeted with untrodden morning snow. And next the new level must have ... ...y. “Our noisy years seem moments in the wake Of the eternal silence.” As to the success of Silverado in its time of being, two reports were current. A...

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... him the state of my affections, and demand his daughter’s hand. With such sen- timental outpourings did our voyage continue and conclude. We landed a... ...feet, nearly, in height; he can eat a bullock daily (of which he has seven hun- dred at present in the compound, and swears that during the siege he w... ...were a piece of my own leg, she should still have something to satisfy her hun- ger. Luckily I remembered that three or four elephants were still lyin... ...eard the gal- lop of their horse: they came nearer, nearer; I was within a hun- dred yards of the fort—seventy—fifty! I strained every nerve; I panted...

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...of our exposure to the moon’s exterior atmosphere, and a rather unpleasant sen- sation about the ears and finger-nails and the back of the throat grew...

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... the students’ dueling-place. We crossed the river and drove up the bank a few hundred yards, then turned to the left, entered a narrow alley, followe... ...ls in the room which I have described, two days in every week duringseven and a half or eight months in every year. This custom had continued in Germa... ...t and rough fighter Go”tz von Berlichingen, abode in after he got out of captivity in the Square Tower of Heilbronn between three hundred and fifty an... ... behind something and stay there until he judged the party’s interest had found another object. I never have seen another dumb creature that was so mo... ...uite evident that the subterranean outlet indeed existed. But the finest thing within the ruin’s limits was a noble linden, which the children said wa... ...ho bought it, from whom, and what he paid for it—from the first buyer down to me, whereby I saw that it had gone steadily up from thirty-five cents to... ...kin is another fraud; nobody could skin a chamois, it is too small. The creature is a humbug in every way, and everything which has been written about...

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...s of many children, so loose and incontinent talkers seldom originate many sen- sible words. King Agis, when some Athenian laughed at their short swor... ... Lacedaemon con- tinued the chief city of all Greece for the space of five hun- dred years, in strict observance of Lycurgus’s laws; in all which time... ...ed, which the pra- etor Petilius having read and perused, made oath in the sen- ate, that, in his opinion, it was not fit for their contents to be mad... ... ten oxen and two sheep; the price of a sheep being ten obols, of an ox, a hun- dred. For the use of money was then infrequent amongst the Romans, but... ...close what no punish- ment could extort;” and assured him then, that three hun- dred Romans, all of the same resolution, lurked about his camp, only w... ...n in our days, the Poplicolae, Messalae, and Valerii, after a lapse of six hun- dred years, acknowledge him as the fountain of their honor. Besides, T... ...ing advised and con- sulted among themselves, made answer, that, as to the sen- tence, they did not see how they could help him, but that they would c... ...led fecials were the most decided, who, on the religious ground, urged the sen- ate that they should lay the whole guilt and penalty of the fact upon ... ...n he and his accom- plices had been thrown out, obtained a decree that six hun- dred of the Athenians that were willing should sail to Sinope and plan...

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...and the Pauper The crowd roared with laughter. The prince picked himself out of the mud, and made fiercely at the sen- try, shouting— “I am the Prince... ...iged to keep moving, for every time he sat down to rest he was soon penetrated to the bone with the cold. All his sen- sations and experiences, as he ... ...his troubles where they would not be scoffed at or doubted; so he told his tale with feeling, forgetting even his hun- ger for the time; and it was re... ...oom—cast thy old eyes about and see if thou canst say which is he.” Hendon glanced up, and experienced a pleasant sen- sation for the first time since... ... pint or two of water, and trudged off toward Westminster, grum- bling at himself for having wasted so much time. Hun- ger helped him to a new plan, n... ...ing with a sort of human bird of paradise—a duke, maybe. Hendon observed to himself that it was hard enough to be sen- tenced to death in the full vig... ...he letters S. L. (for Seditious Libeller), and 198 Mark Twain to remain in prison for life. The severity of this sen- tence was equalled by the savag...

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...instead of one shilling and sixpence a day, and the warden should have two hun- dred or three hundred pounds instead of eight hundred pounds. What is ... ...eanest thing as is.’ ‘Sink them all for parsons, says I, ’ growled Moody; ‘hun- gry beggars, as never thinks their bellies full till they have robbed ... ...t into this place? And now you send a petition to the bishop, asking for a hun- dred pounds a year! I tell you what, my friends; you are deluded, and ... ...verential stare, and, on the whole, Mr Harding found his retreat well cho- sen. About four o’clock his comfort was disturbed by an enemy in the shape ... ... but I can’t see that those altered circumstances give me a right to eight hun- dred a year. I don’t know whether I ever read John Hiram’s will, but w... ...ould be delighted to get the hospital. To be sure Puddingdale is only four hun- dred, but that would be saving something out of the fire: Mr Harding w...

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...naciously, by ren dering it visible to the bodily eye. I have seen him, a hun dred times, with a pencil and sheet of paper, sketching the facade, th... ... life machinery in slug gish movement appeared to make them only the more sen sible of the ponderous and fat satisfaction of their existence. Peepin... ...ue, I might have con demned them. Had I been judge as well as witness, my sen tence might have been stern as that of destiny itself. But, still, no ... ... might be consid ered as representing the mysticism, or rather the mystic sen suality, of this singular age. The nature of the exhibition that was a... ... a devilish looking ob ject, which the moon had not shone upon for half a hun dred years,—then plunged again, and sullenly returned to its old resti... ... offer up my life. If Kossuth, for example, would pitch the battlefield of Hun garian rights within an easy ride of my abode, and choose a mild, sunn...

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... long hair is dabbled with moist mud; she is dressed in the fashion of two hun- dred years ago; and she has at her girdle a bunch of rusty keys. Well!... ...e want me to ride over him?” But the figure never moved. He felt a strange sen- sation at seeing it so still, but slackened his trot and rode forward....

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...a head of that sort; it wants character and force; there’s too much of the sen-si-tive (so he articu- lated it, curling his lip at the same time) in t... ...s who, sensi- tive enough themselves, are selfishly relentless towards the sen- sitiveness of others. Moreover, though he was neither like Crimsworth ... ...had imagined now, from my previous observation of your character, that the sen- timental delight you would have taken in your newly regained 41 Charl... ...elf that trouble. Madame Pelet had her own society, her own circle of cho- sen visitors, whom, however, I seldom saw, as she generally entertained the... ...ere to marry an En- glish and Protestant husband, would she not, rational, sen- sible as she is, quickly acknowledge the superiority of right over exp... ...ago,” I replied. “Is it truly? Well, everything on this tray is at least a hun- dred years old: these cups, these spoons, this ewer, are all heir- loo... ...ose you once had the misfortune to be that of a deplorable character not a hun- dred miles off, I would have put you in the corner for such a confessi...

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...support, and re- ceived his attentions almost as a right; but still he was sen- 55 Yo n g e sible that he had acted like a fool, and that such friend... ...bade Gaston not to return to evil courses,” said Leonard, bringing out his sen- tences at intervals. “And afterwards,” said Eustace sternly—”when the ... ...his beard, which had been carefully trimmed, and altogether the obsequious Sen- eschal presented a strong contrast to the dissolute reckless man-at-ar... ...ccours, I no more expect them than I do to see the Prince at their head! A hun- 116 The Lances of Lynwood dred to one that he never hears of our need... ... enemy—having for that purpose tampered with and seduced Thibault Sanchez, Sen- eschal of the Castle, T ristan de la Fleche, and certain others, who, ...

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... all I have: ten acres and the house, furnished, and let for less than two hun- dred a year. Oh! how I long to evict the tenants! They can’t have my f... ...er frigidity in fury. ‘They are letters—none very long—sometimes two short sen- tences—he wrote at any spare moment. On my honour, as a woman, I feel ... ...s; accurately pe- rusing them behind their senior staidness. Her scorching sen- sitiveness sharpened her intelligence in regard to the esti- mate of d... ...ir, the uprising of the mountain with her ascent; and pleasant too was her hun- ger and the nibble at a little loaf of bread. A linnet sang in her bre... ... nature flew and bloomed; she was bird, flower, flowing river, a quivering sen- sibility unweighted, enshrouded. Desires and hopes would surely have w... ...ot, simply the maniacal noise invaded the fruitful provinces of sleep like Hun and Vandal, the irrational repetition ploughed the minds of those un- h... ...t assent to it with- out hostility to the world’s Redworths.—’They have no sen- sitiveness, we have too much. We are made of bubbles that a wind will ... ...tration. She wrote some lines to her lawyers, quoting one of Mr. Warwick’s sen- tences. That done, his letter was dismissed. Her intolerable languor b...

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...instead of giving her an unlimited order on his banker, or even putting an hun- dred pounds bank-bill into her hands, gave her only ten guin- eas, and... ...unk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sen- tence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; a... ... publication which is shortly to come out, in three duodecimo volumes, two hun- dred and seventy-six pages in each, with a frontispiece to the first, ... ...ot always secure the most valuable fruits. The pinery had yielded only one hun- dred in the last year. Mr. Allen, he supposed, must feel these inconve... ...g; each found her greatest safety in silence, and few and trivial were the sen- tences exchanged while they remained upstairs, Catherine in busy agita...

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...is rent,—namely, seven hundred francs a year,—and the location he had cho- sen in the heart of this well-filled building, exactly three years before t... ...rancs, and he pos- sessed a little property of nine thousand and a few odd hun- dred francs; the fruit of his economy and that of his wife 30 The Les... ...e money- lender, Barbet. “Celeste will have from my brother and myself two hun- dred thousand francs in ready money,” the old maid had said to Barbet ... ...the three Thuilliers. “That young man has great capacity,” said Thuillier, sen- tentiously. “Y es, that he has,” replied Brigitte, extinguishing the l... ...e dependence; and I entered Paris through the Barriere d’Italie, with five hun- dred francs in my pocket, firmly resolved, like one of my compatriots,... ...opinot,—a sub- lime man, as you justly remarked. If I had not already cho- sen a career which is in some sort monastic, and precludes all idea of marr... ...ss to still possess her, must be proud of him,” remarked Madame Thuillier, sen- tentiously. “He is a real treasure for us,” said Thuillier. “If you on... ...in the hollow seat of the chair in which he sat, taking out no more than a hun- dred francs at a time, which he put in the pockets of his trousers, ne... ...e judges sovereign power in all cases of litigation involving not over one hun- dred and forty francs. A way was made for the judge’s clerk, who was n...

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... a turbulent sea in open boats, had weighed upon his head, and he looked a hun- dred; therefore, at no period had the chief of the house of Guenic bee... ...d to invest her savings. But Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel might have had three hun- dred thousand francs in gold, she might have had ten times the landed ... ...cite, who did not choose to take a subordinate position, purchased for one hun- 57 Beatrix dred and thirty thousand francs one of the finest houses i... ...d so strangely united in this carriage, for it is impossible to report the hun- dred and more versions which went the round of Nantes on the remarks, ... ...cule that would overwhelm me if my eyes or my manner ceased to express the sen- timents of which you complain. A second robbery from Camille would be ... ...an they? 218 Balzac Calyste reached the hour of two o’clock living on one sen- tence only, “I shall see her again!”—a poem which has often paid the c... ...r on Calyste’s desk. Calyste found the letter and read it. Seeing Sabine’s sen- tence and recognizing her handwriting he flung the letter into the fir... ... clever. But Calyste loved too deeply, he was too much absorbed in his own sen- timents to perceive the change in Beatrix, and to satisfy her need by ... ...been most anxious to make myself perfectly clear throughout. As for my own sen- timents, I am, above all, desirous to say to you, that although I admi...

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...thered some informa- tion vaguely bearing on this head, but he thought—The sen- Stalky & Co tence was dragged out to the uttermost: Stalky did not wi... ...e three stare at him sometimes till he regularly trickles. He’s an awfully sen- sitive beast.” “He read ‘Eric, or Little by Little,’” said McTurk; “so... ...d on the dormi- tory stairs will ipso facto render himself liable to three hun- dred lines.” The boys did not collect on the stairs, but most of them ... ...d. Stalky & Co “Well, come on out for a walk,” said Stalky in a well-cho- sen pause. “It’s all very disgustin’, and I do hope the Lazar- house won’t ... ... Little Hartopp’s voice drowned Mason’s ere Prout caught the import of the sen- tence. “The boy himself hinted at the existence of a deal of it in the...

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...eatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hun dreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.’ ‘Are there ... ...’s your Uncle Scrooge.’ Which it certainly was. Admiration was the universal sen timent, though some objected that the reply to ‘Is it a bear.’ ought...