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... a particu- larly flourishing capital letter and twice repeated. “That was inevitable,” said White with the comforting regret one feels for a friend’s... ....” Then, abruptly, Benham comes back to his theory. “Fear, you see, is the inevitable janitor, but it is not the ruler of experience. That is what I a... ...nd ourselves far less under the pressure of inflexible moulding forces and inevitable neces- sities than any preceding generations. I want to put very... ...e was wont to fling his victims, and below this terrace were bottle-shaped dungeons where men, bro- ken and torn, thrust in at the neck-like hole abov... ...t me. I felt that science was producing a poisonous swarm, a nest of black dragons. They were crouching here and away there in France and England, the...

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...riend read this note, and shuddered. Then he turned to me, and said, with a suggestion of severity in his tone: “Have you considered, sir, what would ... ...he center of his cavernous mouth. Out went the fires in an instant, and the dragon curled up and died. This man had brought brains to his aid. He had ... ...ompassion for the sufferings of the “prisoner of Chillon,” whose story Byron had told in such moving verse; so I took the steamer and made pilgrimage ... ...bout eight cents, or a family ticket for the season for two dollars. For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow amo...

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...e the enchanted palaces we read of in our child- hood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and ki... ...s you will be like him, mad enough to tie up; but, fortunately , there are dungeons here.” Dantes whirled the stool round his head. “All right, all ri... ...n himself as dead. The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity rec-... ...t. Are there any others?” “Yes; the dangerous and mad prisoners are in the dungeons.” “Let us visit them,” said the inspector with an air of fatigue. ... ...nder mo- mentarily increased; resigning himself, therefore, to what seemed inevitable, he bade his host good-night, and mounted the stairs. He passed ... ...usse still evaded all pursuit, and I had resigned myself to what seemed my inevitable fate. My trial was to come on at the ap- proaching assizes; when...

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... happiness can give repose To him that ever fears to be forgot; And death, inevitable, waits in hall. But I, by some strange miracle, live on A prey t... ...is than in cleaving giants asunder, cutting off ser- pents’ heads, slaying dragons, routing armies, destroying fleets, and breaking enchantments, and ... ...here Camilla lay almost on the point of accompany- ing her husband on that inevitable journey, not on account of the tidings of his death, but because... ...d play at give and take with 425 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. giants and dragons and monsters, and hear hissings and roarings and bellowings and how... ...han two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or mon- sters, or dragons.” “All that is true,” returned Don Quixote, “but we cannot all be f... ...id Don Quixote, “even if he be shut up with him in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell. Follow me, Sancho, for the cart goes slowly, and with the... ...or my master Don Quixote. He would have been sure to take these depths and dungeons for flowery gardens or the palaces of Galiana, and would have coun...

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...s again. The mighty Mars in mortal fetters bound, 109 And lodged in brazen dungeons underground, Full thirteen moons imprison’d roar’d in vain; Otus a... ...rk infold, T wice ten of tin, and twelve of ductile gold; Three glittering dragons to the gorget rise, Whose imitated scales against the skies Reflect... ...es bored, the feet he bound With thongs inserted through the double wound: Inevitable fate o’ertakes the deed; Doom’d by great Ajax’ vengeful lance to...

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... the temporary triumph of oppression, that secure earnest of its final and inevitable fall; the transient nature of ignorance and error and the eterni... ...nts of resemblance between these two men than that which the universal and inevitable influence of their age produced. And this is an influence which ... ...nd Custom, and low-thoughted cares, _115 Like thunder-stricken dragons, for a space Left the torn human heart, their food and dwelling-pla... ...yed women throng around her path: _1585 From their luxurious dungeons, from the dust Of meaner thralls, from the oppressor’s wrath, Or t... ...Of life and death passed fearlessly and well, _3150 Dungeons wherein the high resolve is found, Racks which degraded woman’s gr... ...e quenched and die.—Yon promontory Even now eclipses the descending moon!— Dungeons and palaces are transitory— _3340 H... ... confess a common home: Blush not for what may to thyself impart Stains of inevitable crime: the doom Is this, which has, or may, or must become ...

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...i- cian, in her presence, and for her deliverance? But why talk to thee of dragons, who would be driven back by a dragon-fly. There thou hast missed t... ... counter- feit would be confronted with Tressilian, and discovery be- come inevitable,” “T ressilian might be removed from court,” said the unhesi- ta... ...Kenilworth, while his dethroned sovereign, Edward II., lan- guished in its dungeons. Old John of Gaunt, “time-honoured Lancaster,” had widely extended... ...nd clings so instinctively that not only the sol- dier advancing to almost inevitable death, but even the doomed criminal who goes to certain executio... ...element, dived and rose, hissed and roared, and spouted fire, like so many dragons of enchantment sporting upon a burn- ing lake. Even Amy was for a m...

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...eaty. Indeed it must be conceded to the 29 Charles Dickens whole brood of dragons of modern times, that they have made a great advance in civilisatio... ...tions never did agree, and never will; which is a wise dispensation and an inevitable thing, or there would be none but family parties, and everybody ... ...bserved Chollop. ‘And no windows to put ‘em on,’ said Mark. ‘No stakes, no dungeons, no blocks, no racks, no scaffolds, no thumbscrews, no pikes, no p...

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... had been: to some solitary thinker it might seem strange; but even to him inevitable, not unnatural. For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the... ... of the people: and now how fares it with the flock? With the flock, as is inevitable, it fares ill, and ever worse. They are not tended, they are onl... ...the task, on which no mortal would willingly enter, has become imperative, inevitable,—is it not even a kind- ness of Nature that she lures us forward... ...escend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul dragons,—if, alas, the assassin’s pistol intervene not! But, in fact, Count... ...crats male and female are haled to the Castle; lie crowded in subterranean dungeons there, bemoaned by the hoarse rushing of the Rhone; cut out from h... ... no name!—Darkness and the shadow of horrid cruelty envelopes these Castle Dungeons, that Glaciere Tower: clear only that many have entered, that few ... ...long-wavering, trem- bling on the verge of the horizon, has set, in Olmutz Dungeons; this History knows him no more. Adieu, thou Hero of two worlds; t...

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...And he felt a crazy desire to join the forlorn ones, to throw himself into inevitable defeat, to live his life as he saw it in spite of everything, to... ... him. He imagined them, war- riors out of old tales, on their way to clay dragons in en- chanted woods, clever-fingered guildsmen and artisans, cupi... ...d shambled in, wouldn’t he have felt a moment of involuntary scorn? It was inevitable that the fortunate should hate the unfortunate because they fear... ...history books used to talk about prisoners who were let out after years in dungeons, not being able to stand it, and going back to their cells?” “D’yo... ...ngestion, the scurrying of crowds; men had become ant-like. Perhaps it was inevitable that the crowds should sink deeper and deeper in slavery. Whiche...

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...irable parents had long spoken with repugnance of a match which must bring inevitable poverty to both parties. They had suffered, ’tis true, the engag... ...hey would die for a single sweet smile of hers; and in order to make their inevitable sufferings as easy as possible to the gallant fellows, she and t... ...aying robbers, rescuing the distressed, and achieving noble feats of arms. Dragons and giants existed in his day no more, or be sure he would have had... ...le part of his life in Germany; was confined there for thirty years in the dungeons of Spielberg; and, escaping thence to England, was, under pretence... ...-waist- coats were taken off from the wretched captives languishing in the dungeons; the guardians were invested in these shameful garments, and with ... ... fro, amidst old black canvas, Gothic halls, thrones, paste- board Cupids, dragons, and such like. Such dirt, darkness, crowd, confusion and gabble of...

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...als. Her unpitying soul Cares naught what doom she spinneth with her thread Inevitable, be it for men new born Or cities: all things wax and wane thr... ...s sons Sprang they. All T rojans panic stricken fled, Seeing those fearsome dragons in their town. No man, though ne’er so dauntless theretofore, Dar... ... sky dark water and fire!” And to Aeolia came she, isle of caves, Of echoing dungeons of mad raging winds With rugged ribs of mountain overarched, Whe...