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...ractical emphasis thrown upon numbers, upon the readiness of the organized bands, the dis- positions of the leaders, and the amount of resistance to b... ...uffling vagabonds up any of the Veronese side-streets fall upon the patrol marching like one man, and hope to overcome them! In Vienna there was often... ...nt events. The image of Vittoria, the traitress, floated over the soldiery marching on Milan through her treachery. Never had an Austrian force seemed... ...said the lady. ‘Fine men, General Pierson, very fine men. I never saw such marching—equal to our Guards,’ her husband re- marked. The lady named her M... ...What number of the white butchers have we in the city to-night?’ ‘They are marching in at every gate. I saw a regiment of Hungarians coming up the Bor... ...you call me beast? I have dandled you in my arms, my little lad, while the bands played “There’s yet a heart in Italy!” Do you remember it?’ Barto san... ... form. Carlo and Luciano leaned over the balcony, smoking, and scanned the marching of their fellow-countrymen in the livery of servitude. ‘They don’t... ...eld of flowers was a stream- ing flood; regiment by regiment, the crash of bands went by. 157 George Meredith Outwardly the Italians conducted themse... ...t the carriage was bearing them to some unknown destination, tore open the bands of her corset and drew her mistress’s head against the full warmth of...

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...ould oppose, When deadliest hatred fired its foes, The vengeful Douglas bands. XI. Crichtoun! though now thy miry court But pens the lazy steer ... ...conjuror’s words will make The stubborn demon groan and quake; And oft the bands of iron break, Or bursts one lock, that still amain, Fast as ’tis ope... ...g-tide bloom so lavishly, Had then from many an axe its doom, T o give the marching columns room. 181 Sir Walter Scott XX. And why stands Scotland id... ...ling still, Around the base of Flodden Hill. 182 Marmion XXI. Ere yet the bands met Marmion’s eye, Fitz-Eustace shouted loud and high, “Hark! hark! m... ...ng. Then skilful Surrey’s sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lan...

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... ball plantations; awkward squads are drilling in the open spaces:sentries marching everywhere, and (this is a caution to artists) I am told have orde... ...nking, however, can suit themselves perfectly at Gibraltar; where there is marching and counter-marching, challenging and relieving guard all the nigh... ...t flagstaff, where the sentry can look out over two seas, poor fellows are marching and clapping muskets, and crying “All’s Well,” dressed in cap and ... ...em, and had an opportunity of seeing their evolu- tions, and hearing their bands, upon a fine green plain under the 69 Thackeray Seraglio walls, wher... ...on subsequent visits, kneeling in the Latin Church before the pictures, or marching solemnly with candles in processions, or lying flat on the stones,... ...s bon ton for them to go in processions; and you see them on such errands, marching with long candles, as gravely as may be. But I have never been abl...

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... Noble Aufidius, Take your commission; hie you to your bands: Let us alone to guard Corioli: If they set down before ‘s, for the... ...rust? COMINIUS: As I guess, Marcius, Their bands i’ the vaward are the Antiates, Of their best trust; o’er them Aufi... ...ld ‘s: This boy, that cannot tell what he would have But kneels and holds up bands for fellowship, Does reason our petition with more strength Than th... ...He approaches: you shall hear him. 115 Act V , scene vi [Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and colors; commoners being with him .] CORIOLANUS: H...

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...s their tread. Then prelude light, of livelier tone, Expressed their merry marching on, Ere peal of closing battle rose, With mingled outcry, shrieks,... ...d bush, The hermit gains yon rock, and stands T o gaze upon our slumbering bands. Seems he not, Malise, dike a ghost, That hovers o’er a slaughtered h... ...y targe. Each to his post!—all know their charge.’ The pibroch sounds, the bands advance, The broadswords gleam, the banners dance’ Obedient to the Ch... ...land hornet’s nest Would muster up in swarms so soon As e’er they heard of bands at Doune?— Like bloodhounds now they search me out,— Hark, to the whi... ...t of Lowland war, Against Clan-Alpine, raised by Mar?’ ‘No, by my word;—of bands prepared T o guard King James’s sports I heard; Nor doubt I aught, bu... ...y cursed in heart. XXII. Now, in the Castle-park, drew out Their checkered bands the joyous rout. There morricers, with bell at heel And blade in hand...

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... out of the high road, you see.” “But I saw them, a couple of hours agone, marching into Bristol,” said Jephthah coming forward. “There now,” said the... ...t to be rested, stood a tall thin man, in a heavy broad-brimmed hat, large bands, crimson scarf, and buff coat, who was in fiery and eager words calli... ..., but which meant what he knew too well. Some of the villagers formed into bands, and agreed to meet at the sound of a cowhorn, to drive anyone off on... ...if they could not tear themselves from the contemplation of the successful bands gathering together in their solid masses, and marching on- wards in t... ...tion of the successful bands gathering together in their solid masses, and marching on- wards in the direction of Bristol, leaving, however, a strong ... ...him, saying it was to bid Patience and the little ones farewell, since the marching orders were for the morrow. He was unusually kind and good- nature... ...oodley, a scholarly-looking person, who wore a black gown and col- lar and bands. The Elmwood folk were pleased to have prayers and ser- mon again, an...

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... and obscure allies, he set his feet toward conquest, and mingled with the marchings of an army that surged forever forward and back; now in mer- cile... ... woman, her only auxiliaries her beauty, her wit, and the frayed, strained bands of a sorely tried love, stood forth like a challenger, against Charyb...

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...aggressive in their bearing, they had no definite objective they were just marching and show- ing themselves in the more prosperous parts of London. T... ...ess with pink and golden flashes of illumination and end- less interlacing bands of dotted lights under a still and star- less sky, but also the whole... ... struggle of the world powers. And everywhere along the roads taken by the marching armies clustered groups and crowds of impartially observant specta... ...ipes. They had no fear of their invaders; the days when ‘soldiering’ meant bands of licentious looters had long since passed away…. That watcher among... ... Even though the shattered official gov- ernments now clamoured for peace, bands of irreconcilables and invincible patriots, usurpers, adventurers, an... ...ted into the jungle to perish. Large areas of China were a prey to brigand bands…. It is a remarkable thing that no complete contemporary account of t... ...ld is still studded with the ruins of broken- down civilisations. Barbaric bands made their fastness upon the Acropolis, and the tomb of Hadrian becam...

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...hant’s neck, and at nine o’clock they set out from the village, the animal marching off through the dense forest of palms by the shortest cut. 47 Jul... ...their inac- cessible mountain fastnesses. The travellers several times saw bands of ferocious Indians, who, when they perceived the elephant striding ... ...he guards of the rajah, lighted by torches, were watching at the doors and marching to and fro with naked sabres; probably the priests, too, were watc... ... foli- age filled the air with a penetrating perfume. Agile and grin- ning bands of monkeys skipped about in the trees, nor were tigers wanting in the... ...ile off they perceived a little band returning in good order. Mr. Fogg was marching at their head, and just behind him were Passepartout and the other... ...n twisted and rattled in the wind. Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or bands of gaunt, famished, ferocious prairie-wolves ran howling after the sl...

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...et as a rose that morning, all in tailor-made black but for the inevitable bands of white satin wrapped high and tight about her neck. The St. Bernard... ...lf as manager of a negro minstrel troupe, in a hired drum-major’s uniform, marching down the streets of Sacramento at the head of the brass band in bu... ...er good, firm mouth and chin, because of her full neck and its high, tight bands of white satin. And he loved her because her arms were strong and rou... ...he shore, and sat there a while, looking down upon the long green rollers, marching incessantly to- ward the beach, and there breaking in a prolonged ...

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...hapless women, and insatiate in jealousy to their own ruin! Not their hus bands alone with the captives did they slay on account of the marriage bed,... ...ight; and the floods of rain from Zeus ceased at sunrise, and soon the two bands drew near and met each other, and Argus spoke first: (ll. 1123 1133) ... ...nged to choose a murderous drug to taste it, and now she was loosening the bands of the casket eager to take it forth, unhappy maid! But suddenly a de... ...e city. And with him in order due and arrayed in their harness of war went marching, band The Argonautica 149 by band, the chiefs of the Phaeacians. ...

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...wed also how much they governed within doors, and how indulgent their hus- bands were to them, in demeaning themselves towards them with all kindness ... ...here was much care and art, too, used by the nurses; they had no swaddling bands; the children grew up free and unconstrained in limb and form, and no... ...ly on some few particular days in the year. They lodged together in little bands upon beds made of the rushes which grew by the banks of the river Eur... ...e charge and governance of them; he again arranged them into their several bands, and set over each of them for their captain the most temperate and b... ...ence arrived, that the Gauls again, proceeding from the Adriatic Sea, were marching in vast numbers upon Rome. On the very heels of the report followe... ... kept a slow, orderly pace, and with their lighted heads resembled an army marching by night, astonishing the shepherds and herds men of the hills abo... ...mber of the Latins and other people of Italy joined their forces, and were marching with him toward the city, to procure his res- toration; not, howev... ...em on both sides. Cominius, to avoid this inconvenience, divided his army, marching himself with one body to encounter the V olscians on their approac... ...us, where it was told him the Carthaginians were drawn together. As he was marching up an ascent, from the top of which 422 V olume One they expected...

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...s a church to see, or a picture-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The bands of the regiments were making music at all hours. The greatest folks o... ...were the colours, borne by the senior and junior Ensigns —then George came marching at the head of his company. He looked up, and smiled at Amelia, an... ... of Mrs. Crawley, whose company she by no means courted. Becky watched her marching off, with a smile on her lip. She had the keenest sense of humour,... ...gan to pass for facts. “He has cut the armies in two,” it was said. “He is marching straight on Brussels. He will overpower the English, and be here t... ...nxious About Her THE KIND READER must please to remember—while the army is marching from Flanders, and, after its heroic actions there, is advancing t... ...riend. Should he continue to write to her from Paris, whither the army was marching? He might be able to give her interesting news from that capital, ...

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... better than those of their companions, and several of them added to their marching outfit a flask, probably full of brandy, slung round their necks b... ...ose dandies up to?” he exclaimed in a sonorous voice. “Creeping instead of marching, I call it.” At his first words the officers who accompanied him t... ...in the rear, the other in advance of the carriage. The commandant, who was marching with Merle and Gerard between the ad- vance guard and the carriage... ...iration, and whose abundant black hair, parted on the forehead into simple bands, bought out the youthfulness of an intelligent head. The slight lines... ...rom the ground, which seemed to tremble beneath the feet of a multitude of marching men. A momentary clearness in the sky enabled her to perceive at a... ...d by the atmosphere. Therefore, though the Blues and their contingent were marching through the country in three lines, forming a triangle which drew ...

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...Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands Unite commutual in most sacred bands. Player Queen : So many journeys may the sun and moon Make us a... ...] SCENE IV: A plain in Denmark. [Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching .] PRINCE FORTINBRAS : Go, captain, from me greet the Danish ki...

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...e to join him, for breakfast on the Heath. Or to see them at eventide, all marching in again, with short squeak, almost in military order; and each, t... ...t; perhaps it is better so!” Too-heavy-laden Teufelsdrockh! Yet surely his bands are loosening; one day he will hurl the burden far from him, and boun... ...d deducing inferences therefrom. “Often also could I see the black Tempest marching in anger through the Distance: round some Schreckhorn, as yet grim... ...d, to avoid putrescence? Liber- als, Economists, Utilitarians enough I see marching with its bier, and chanting loud paeans, towards the funeral pile,...

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...f first-mate of a hotel) [1. See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-and-span new blue cloth uniform, decorated with shining brass buttons, an... ... nearer—not a quarter of a mile away; was it the muffled rasping and grinding of distant machinery? No, it came still nearer; was it the measured tram... ...nywhere; neither was he waiting, for the rope was still moving, consequently he was doing the same. This argued that he had not found the road, yet, b... ...by the rope, it yielded and let him tumble backward. The fre- quency of this result suggested an idea to me. I ordered the caravan to ‘bout face and f... ... a “man of the world.” There was something very delicious about his leaving Boston to her “narrowness,” unreproved and uninstructed. I formed the cara... ... party ahead of us, and stopped to observe them. They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow—twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet ...

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...le’s, and whose hair is not so much white as yellow like moldy linen, with bands of pink skull apparent between the tresses, anxiously lifts her bag, ... ...uth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays “Marching through Georgia” till every head in the car begins to ache. The ne... ...l against the maize wall; a couch with pillows of sapphire velvet and gold bands; 72 Main Street chairs which, in Gopher Prairie, seemed flippant. Sh... .... As they returned in late afternoon the low sun was a solemnity of radial bands, like a heavenly fan of beaten gold; the limitless circle of the grai... ...r home, through the November wind. 167 Sinclair Lewis CHAPTER XIV She was marching home. “No. I couldn’t fall in love with him. I like him, very much... ...ean explora- tion; excellent pictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths... ...ed, “When do you want them?” “Oh, Monday.” The adventure was over. She was marching out. “What name?” he called after her. He had risen and, despite t... ...’ out 412 Main Street of you. But next time I go by your husband!” He was marching into the hall. Carol flung herself on him, her clenching hand on h... ...ision himself. She had leave from the office for two days. She watched him marching from the train, solid, as- sured, carrying his heavy suit-case, an...

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...first ladies of England when ringlets were in fashion. The introduction of bands, he says, made a difference of two thousand pounds a year in his in- ... ...e widow quit Leamington, but very soon af- terwards the 120th received its marching orders, and left 146 Men’s Wives Weedon and Warwickshire. Haggart... ... dear girl spoke in time, or where should we have been now? Well, one day, marching home from parade, I saw a lady seated at an open window, by anothe...

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...do you say? You like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands. Or Egypt to-morrow, if you like—though you ... ...inta ing with him. ‘You seem to have caught the fever of this London; … no bands … no reviews … Low comedy act- ing.’ He muttered his objections to Lo... ...him, here and there perhaps inspire him, if he would let her breathe. Hus- bands exist who refuse the right of breathing to their puppet wives. Above ... ..., and hey presto plunged into the war a month after, shouldering a gun and marching. Fifteen battles in eighteen months; and Death a lady at a balcony...