...sing at Sagrado below Goritzia and a 25 H G Wells magnificent rush up the plateau and across the plateau of the Carso. Goritzia itself was not organi... ...retired into a case of brickwork, surmounted by a steep roof of thick iron plates; no aeroplane exists to carry bombs enough to smash that covering; t... ... will go under this fire along the length of the German positions exposing plate after plate; one machine will get a continuous panorama of many miles... ... of many miles and then come back straight to the aerodrome to develop its plates. There is no waste of time about the business, the photo- graphs are... ...e of faintly hostile, faintly contemptuous apathy. It is still so entirely insular that it shudders at the thought of the Channel T un- nel. This is t... ...diate object of self-abandonment? We need a standard so universal that the platelayer may say to the barrister or the duchess, or the Red Indian to th...

...fat, aproned French waiter was hovering near. Josephine let him remove the plates and the empty bottle. “Have more wine,” she said to Aaron. But he re... ...roach him quite ordinarily. He put on the kettle, and quietly set cups and plates on a tray. The room was clean and cosy and pleasant. He did the clea... ... small table on the hearth-rug, spread it with a blue-and-white cloth, set plates and glasses. Aaron did not move. It was not his nature to concern hi... ...this quiet predominance over others. He mashed the potatoes, he heated the plates, he warmed the red wine, he whisked eggs into the milk pudding, and ... ...lied Aaron sourly. To which there was no answer. The host cleared away the plates, and put the pudding on the table. He pushed the bowl to Aaron. “I s... ...so- lating himself in their midst, and minding his own business. Upon this insular trick our greatness and our predominance depends—such as it is. Yes...

... brose. At the middle table trenchers and bannocks served the pur- pose of plates; and at the third there was nothing interposed between the boards of... ...glass of the great windows. The high table was loaded with gold and silver plate, and Venice glasses even more precious; there were carpets under the ... ...es, whose French was not strong, could hold no conversation with them. T o insular minds, whether Scottish or English, every devia- tion of the Gallic... ...dery on a green ground was spread so as to shelter a cloth glittering with plate and bestrewn with flowers; horses, in all varieties of or- namental h...

...en and women gathered in one spot, walking upon real pavements in front of plate- glass-windowed shops, and talking something that at first hearing wa... ...nderous Irish gentleman, with priest’s cords in his hat and a small nickel-plated badge on his fat bosom, emerged from the knot supporting a Chinaman ... ...s so? Then I am very sorry for you.” That made him angry, and he said that insular envy made me unresponsive. So, you see, I could not make him under-... ...lines of the Palmer House (but with all the gilding real gold, and all the plate-glass diamond), and set in the centre of it a loud-voiced, argumentat...

...n of a magna- nimity overcast with simplicity, which Nevil held to be pure insular English; our type of splendid manhood, not discov- erable elsewhere... ...swer to his attachment. Probably she went to work transparently, after the insular fashion of opening a spiritual mystery with the lancet. Renee suffe... ...ephew Lord Palmet, for that boy can- not keep a secret; he is as open as a plate.’ ‘The smoking-room at night?’ Cecilia suggested, remem- bering her f... ...iously for his delay in coming, it was thought, until he sat down before a plate of Yorkshire pie, and said: ‘The fact is I’ve been canvassing hard. W... ...sle, in a trice; and if you choose to comport yourself ac- cording to your insular notion of freedom, you are bound to march out to the measured groun... ...rrect. A want of spirituality,’ Rosamund said critically, using one of the insular commonplaces, after that manner of fastening upon what there is not... ...se in England.’ He began to nibble at bread. Rosamund pushed over to him a plate of the celebrated Steynham pie, of her own invention, such as no dous... ... of steam, and her admiration of the fire of his eyes. After finishing his plate he had less the look of a ship driving on to reef—some of his images ...

...n the gun-case. Behind everything rose the black frame of the Kashi Bridge—plate by plate, girder by girder, span by span-and each pier of it recalled... ...uction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in its slings, threatening to slide out sideways. Then the nat... ...gs, and Hitchcock’s right arm was broken 8 Rudyard Kipling by a falling T-plate, and he buttoned it up in his coat and swooned, and came to and direc... ...ours till Peroo, from the top of the crane, reported “All’s well,” and the plate swung home. There was no one like Peroo, serang, to lash, and guy, an... ...dge him by his bridge, as that stood or fell. He went over it in his head, plate by plate, span by span, brick by brick, pier by pier, remembering, co... ...en, there wouldn’t be twenty men in all London to claim it.” “That’s their insular provincialism, then. I don’t care a cent. The old man would have wr...

...e to Henrietta in feminine beauty, she was 97 George Meredith on an upper plateau, where questions as to beauty are an- swered by other than the shal... ...tton-flesh in a crescent of white fat, with a lump of dry bread beside the plate. Thus he returned to the only home he had, not disheart- ened, and be... ...eds of miles and have now come to dock. I ‘ll ask Mrs. Jones to bring me a plate here.’ Gower went to the housekeeper in the kitchen. His father’s fro... ...t the boy. There ‘s clasping and kissing. He’s all wild Wales to her.’ The plate of meat was brought by Mary Jones with Gower beside her, and a sniffl... ...of your story, and I too will blow the cloud,’ said Mr. Woodseer, when the plate was pushed aside and the pipe appeared. So Gower’s recital of his wan... ...twood drew in his argument. She stood before him. There was on his part an insular representation of old French court salute to the lady, and she repl...

...er you fresh food before that which has disappeared from 47 Trollope your plate has been swallowed. They begrudge you no amount that you can eat or d... ...ble and for pies. No vegetables in England! Did my surprise arise from the insular ignorance and idolatrous self-worship of a Britisher, or was my Ame...