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..., draped over one shoulder, was fringed and decorated in rich purple and gold—the mark of someone of high standing and nobility, not Hywela Lyn ... ...ll mortals with the sheer pleasure of dancing? Wherever she danced, in taverns or market places, everyone forgot what they were doing at that momen... ...ly thought in Terpsichore’s mind was Myrddin, his lifeblood seeping into the rich Welsh soil. She held him closer, as if she could sustain his wave...

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... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim M... ...versity is an equal opportunity University. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E Most of the adventure... ...d that was strange; and Sid did not overlook the fact that Tom even showed a marked aversion to these inquests, and always avoided them when he could.... ...unt said to him showed him that he had brought his sorrows to an unpromising market: “Tom, I’ve a notion to skin you alive!” “Auntie, what have I done... ...to the path that led up Cardiff Hill; this they took. They passed by the old Welshman’s house, half way up the hill, without hesitating, and still cl... ...picked up his nimble heels and flew. Down, down he sped, till he reached the Welshman’s. He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man... ...Sunday morn ing, Huck came groping up the hill and rapped gently at the old Welshman’s door. The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set... ... you, boys, and tell the sheriff — get your breakfast tomorrow morning!” The Welshman’s sons departed at once. As they were leav ing the room Huck sp...

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... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...c trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim M... ...ual opportunity University. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens) PREFACE THE UNGENTLE LAWS AND CUSTOMS ... ...ed, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway. MARK TWAIN. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 3 ... ...eneral use many, many centu A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 4 ries ago — and muttered apparently to himself: “Wit ye well... ...ter that name and die?” “Utter it? Why certainly. I would utter it if it was Welsh.” “Ye are even a dead man, then; and I go to tell Arthur.” “That’s ...

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...ndow on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume th...

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...eadland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful,... ...nced from him about his apartment and back to the little table. A fascicle marked very distinctly “1” caught my attention, and I took it up. I smiled ... ..., you cannot feel the hard checkered pavement under your boots, you cannot mark the dimly lit windows here and there, and the shadows upon the ugly an... ...ops, ecclesiastical residences, and the inns and incidentals of a decaying market town, the cathedral of Lowchester pointed a beautiful, unemphatic sp... ...n as “dumping.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British employers were, of course, taking their loss out of the... ...n at the seaside before, and then I had gone by excursion to places on the Welsh coast whose great cliffs of rock and mountain backgrounds made the ef... ...nces in the beautiful wide country between the Four Towns district and the Welsh mountains. About these great houses there had usually been good outbu...

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...pice and brake, O’er stock and rock their race they take. VIII. The Hunter marked that mountain high, The lone lake’s western boundary, And deemed the... ...uest of her eve! VI. While yet he loitered on the spot, It seemed as Ellen marked him not; But when he turned him to the glade, One courteous parting ... ...troke, The wave ascending into smoke; See the proud pipers on the bow, And mark the gaudy streamers flow From their loud chanters down, and sweep The ... .... Nor while on Ellen’s faltering tongue Her filial welcomes crowded hung, Marked she that fear—affection’s proof— Still held a graceful youth aloof; ... ...raeme. 34 The Lady of the Lake XXIII. Allan, with wistful look the while, Marked Roderick landing on the isle; His master piteously he eyed, Then gaz... ... words have been adapted to it by Burns. A similar story is recounted of a Welsh bard, who composed and played on his death-bed the air called Dafyddy...

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...ive, and the most likely to be seen by such travellers as Young Martin and Mark Tapley. As I had never, in writing fiction, had any disposition to sof... ...ice but to dine again with Duke Humphrey; and expressing himself in a very marked and extraordinary manner as one surfeited of High Life and Gracious ... ...but’—he was going to say ‘worms,’ but recollecting that worms were not re- markable for heads of hair, he substituted ‘flesh and blood.’ ‘Which,’ crie... ... as a gentle rap was heard at the street door. ‘There is the creature! Now mark my words, he has come back with John Westlock for his box, and is goin... ...estlock for his box, and is going to help him to take it to the mail. Only mark my words, if that isn’t his intention!’ 22 Martin Chuzzlewit Even as ... ...his spirits rose proportionately. There were English people, Irish people, Welsh people, and Scotch people there; all with their little store of coars...

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...h the stroke on the head. So leave we of Sir Tristram and speak we of King Mark. CHAPTER VII How for the despite of Sir Tristram King Mark came with t... ...h two knights into England, and how he slew one of the knights. T hen King Mark had great despite of the renown of Sir Tristram, and then he chased hi... ...stram, and then he chased him out of Cornwall: yet was he nephew unto King Mark, but he had great suspicion unto Sir Tristram because of his queen, La... ...them both. So when Sir Tristram departed out of Cornwall into England King Mark heard of the great prowess that Sir Tristram did there, the which grie... ..., that he passed all other knights but if it were Sir Launcelot. Then King Mark was right heavy of these tidings, and as glad was La Beale Isoud. Then... ...d. Ye shall see me disguised, said Sir Gareth; and therewithal he espied a Welsh knight where he was to repose him, and he was sore hurt afore by Sir ... ...im of his knighthood to lend him his shield for his. I will well, said the Welsh knight. 365 Le Morte Darthur – V ol. Two And when Sir Gareth had his...

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...orted with cold; the white-topped houses; the bleak, star-lighted sky; the market people and other early stragglers, trotting to circulate their almos... ... growing worse every hour. The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; land- marks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one; instea... ...or could come at it, until the road had been cut out by labourers from the market-town. When they might cut their way to the Holly-Tree nobody could t... ...tting bound, to a chair, with his eyes bandaged, on a scaffold in a little market-place. In that instant, a great sword (loaded with quicksilver in th... ...ight at in a picturesque old town on 18 The Holly-Tree—Three Branches the Welsh border. In a large double-bedded room of this Inn there had been a su... ...d he never re- called any more of the dream. This reminiscence brought the Welsh Inns in general before me; with the women in their round hats, and th... ... (which is never released while you stay there); and the great bell of St. Mark’s Cathedral tolling midnight. Next I put up for a minute at the restle...

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...Round T able, which is vastly more complete than Wace’s, bear unmistakable marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh... ...able marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh border, naturally shows familiarity with current Welsh tradition. His... ...in and growth of Arthurian romance; for it proves the existence of genuine Welsh tradition about Arthur, and makes untenable the position of those cri... ...e , Paris, 1910, pp. 801, 802. 13 Wace Wace, and Layamon, were all men of marked individuality and ability; each lives for us with as distinct a pers... ...SIONS POSSESSIONS ARTHUR’S MAGIC POSSESSIONS form a prominent element in Welsh tradition, and their appearance in the early chronicles is an importa... ...ance in the early chronicles is an important testimony to the diffusion of Welsh legend. Kilhwch and Olwen contains a list of his belongings, all of... ...ian Chronicles:Roman De Brut and judged that the place and time were come. Mark now the cunning craft with which he set about to take his seisin of th... ...peace of nights, when I am weaned in the king’s quarrels. When thy enemies mark the generosity of the king, they will cease to annoy so large a lord.”... ... with a mean company, since he would not have it noised about the land. He marked the castle and its towers, which were both strong and fair, and much...

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...ious deliberation under the torrent of this tremendous outburst, which was marked by scarce a pause in the delivery. He said, ‘My wife deranged! I mig... ...e is, the rightful claimant of a place among the proudest in the land; and mark me, Mr. Beltham, obstinate sensual old man that you are! I take the bo... ...runs. His sleeve hap- pened to be unbuttoned, and there, on his arm, was a mark of the cane. ‘Look!’ I said to Julia. But she looked at me. ‘Richie, a... ...aw lots who should keep by Catman out of twenty-seven; fifteen blanks were marked. Temple dashed his hand into the cap first ‘Like my luck,’ he remark... ...ht; at morning waking up, and the world alight, and you standing high, and marking the hills where you will see the next morning and the next, morn- i... ...uld hardly bear meeting Temple on my passage to the cabin. ‘Captain Jasper Welsh,’ he was reiterating, as if sounding it to dis- cover whether it had ... ...uest Temple not to joke, but the next moment I had launched Captain Jasper Welsh on a piratical exploit; Temple lifted the veil from his history, reve... ...of an excited multi- tude. As he boasted that there was the end of Captain Welsh, I broke the rope. But T emple spoiled my triumph by depriv- ing him ... ...windows. When we had to talk reasonably we were not so successful. Captain Welsh was one of those men who show you, whether you care to see them or no...

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...) SIR STEPHEN SCROOP : SIR PIERCE OF EXTON : (EXTON:) Captain of a band of Welshmen. (Captain:) QUEEN to King Richard: (QUEEN:) DUCHESS OF YORK : (DUC... ...ant to this princely presence. Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee, And mark my greeting well; for what I speak My body shall make good upon this e... ...re Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose; More are men’s ends mark’d than their lives before: The setting sun, and music at the close, As... ...care. [Exeunt.] SCENE IV: A camp in Wales. [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain .] Captain: My lord of Salisbury, we have stay’d ten days, A... ...rselves: farewell. EARL OF SALISBURY : Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman: The king reposeth all his confidence in thee. Captain: ’Tis thou... ...too late, O’erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state: For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead. Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fl... ...on the earth I rain My waters; on the earth, and not on him. March on, and mark King Richard how he looks. [Parle without, and answer within. Then a f... ...r of his slanderous lips. There is my gage, the manual seal of death, That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest, And will maintain what thou has... ... no, ay; for I must nothing be; Therefore no no, for I resign to thee. Now mark me, how I will undo myself; I give this heavy weight from off my head ...

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...ed his head, undid his collar, and parted the black locks, to seek for the mark of the blow, whence blood was fast oozing. “He lives—he will do well e... ... antlers projecting from the wall, to support the feminine properties that marked it as her special abode. She was standing when they entered; and was... ...nd proscribed life. And thus Richard had heard his father’s exclamation on marking the well-ordered advance of the Royalists: “They have learnt this s... ...e for me to die!’ I saw him, with his sword in both hands, cut down a wild Welshman who was rushing on 25 Yo n g e me. Then I saw no more, till in th... ...ounded?” “Sorely,” said Richard; “my side had been pierced with a lance, a Welsh two-handed sword had broken through my helmet, and well-nigh cleft my... ...n, Lady, came lights and murmuring voices. They were Mortimer’s plundering Welsh robbers. I heard their wild gibbering tongue; and I knew how it would... ...bove all those around, his eyes might be observed to be seeing, though not mark- ing, what was before them, but to be fixed as though the soul were in... ...er of each might be seen, in white cloth, the two lines of the Cross, that marked them as pilgrims and Crusaders, already on the eve of departure for ... ... poor corpse, that it might likewise have Christian burial. Her old nurse, Welsh Winny, was as true to her as she was to me; and forth they sped, fear...

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...All the monarchs of the Norman 5 Sir Walter Scott race had shown the most marked predilection for their Norman subjects; the laws of the chase, and m... ...t, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to t... ...some, though somewhat corpulent person. His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour.... ...m mid-leg to ankle. Silk and embroi- dery distinguished their dresses, and marked the wealth and importance of their master; forming, at the same time... ...der limbs, small fet- locks, thin manes, and easy springy motion, formed a marked contrast with the large-jointed heavy horsastic vows. Yet so loose w... ...oundelay She said that one widow for so many was too few, And she bade the Welshman wend his way. But then next came a yeoman, a yeoman of Kent, Jolli... ...ter employment, and wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from th...

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...scover that the little towns below had changed—but how, we should not have marked them well enough to know. It would be indefinable, a change in the q... ...should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language biological to such heights of ex... ... Principles of Logic, and Sigwart’s Logik; the lighter minded may read and mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Log... ...d few; baseness of bearing, grossness of manner, will be the distinc- tive mark of no section of the community whatever. The coarser reasons for priva... ...blic, and even work in public. Our present need for privacy in many things marks, indeed, a phase of transi- tion from an ease in public in the past d... ...as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, whom he regar...

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...r, an’t please you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. Lord Chief Justice : To punish you by ... ...judgment and understanding; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and have at him! For the box of the ear ... ... If he should do so, He leaves his back unarm’d, the French and Welsh Baying him at the heels: never fear that. LORD BARDOLPH : Who is it ... ...ces hither? HASTINGS: The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland; Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth: Henry 4th, Part 2, Act I, scene iii 17 ... ...openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear: and I have borne, and bo... ..., in affections of delight, In military rules, humors of blood, He was the mark and glass, copy and book, That fashion’d others. And him, O wondrous h... ...And this same half faced fellow, Shadow; give me this man: he presents no mark to Henry 4th, Part 2, Act III, scene ii 47 the enemy; the foeman may ...

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...e Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this burst of smoke and f... ...d and his father into keeping his contract to her, since he has spoilt the market for any other.” “Is he contracted to her?” asked the Countess. “Not ... ...r new Abbess, and this requisition was a fresh blow. Presently the Proctor marked out Grisell Dacre, and asked on what terms she was at the convent. I... ... than to lend an ear to all the idle tales thy poor old mother may hear at market or fair.” “Then should we have enough to do,” muttered her hus- band... ...ains, for the Elliots were hard upon us, but I could not leave him to be a mark for them, and I was up with the rest in time, though I had to cut down... ...t in the meantime Queen Margaret had been striving her utmost to raise the Welsh and the Border lords on behalf of her son. She had obtained aid from ...

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...per had deigned to impart some of her own, inciden- tally; that she was of Welsh blood, and born among the mountains. ‘She has a romantic look,’ was t... ...his own fate was decided. So he said: ‘Y our ladyship’s generosity is very marked. I say it is very marked.’ ‘How, my good General Ople! how is it mar... ...o show her that he prized her, and would not let her escape his eulogies. ‘Marked, in this way, dear madam, that you think of my daughter’s future mor... ...hen his blow had struck him, as accurately as the watch of the drowned man marks his minute. Lady Camper had gone to Italy, and was in communication w... ...ave frankly and honestly. I have a little overstated it, but I am near the mark.’ ‘Your ladyship wanting courage!’ cried the General. ‘Refresh yoursel...

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...ard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet... ...she might have been she was dressed with perfect neatness, and betrayed no marks of poverty or neglect. ‘Who has sent you so far by yourself?’ said I.... ... with something feeble and wandering in his manner, there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, ... ...into his former ab straction and took no notice of what passed, but I re marked that when her laugh was over, the child’s bright eyes were dimmed wi... ...away, but with what would place her beyond the reach of want for ever. you mark me sir? She shall have no pittance, but a fortune Hush! I can say no... ...ong the trees; the stream that rippled by the distant water mill; the blue Welsh mountains far away. It was for such a spot the child had wearied in t...

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...elling at Windsor. WILLIAM PAGE : a boy, son to Page. SIR HUGH EVANS : a Welsh parson. DOCTOR CAIUS : a French physician. Host of the Garter Inn. (... ...lly rook. SHALLOW: Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor. FORD: Good mine host o’ the Gart... ...be jealous. I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua vitae bottle, or a thief... ... mine host of the Garter. Host: Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh, soul curer and body curer! DOCTOR CAIUS : Ay, dat is very good; exc... ...hand. Well: on went he for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs of three several deaths... ..., hic, haec, hoc . SIR HUGH EVANS : Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark: genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case? WILLIAM PAGE :... ... break. MISTRESS FORD: Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the Welsh devil Hugh? MISTRESS PAGE : They are all couched in a pit hard by He...

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...t soil. Wealthy communities must engender them. If with attentive minds we mark the origin of classes, we shall discern that the Nice Feelings and the... ... the old school, but had the richness and fulness of passionate blood that marks the modern Ital- ian, where there is much dallying with beauty in the... ... She had met Adela’s delicately-searching touches in that direction with a marked reserve. It was impossible to ask her point-blank, after probing her... ...tal and muscu- lar compression, said instantly, “Manoeuvre her.” Adela re- marked, “If you tell her the company is grand, she will come, and her Irish... ...apons she had em- ployed to effect the rout of Mrs. Chump. She gravely re- marked that the woman had consented to go, and her sisters thanked her. The... ...m sadness which characterized the poor organist. Mr. Powys was a travelled Welsh squire, Lady Gosstre’s best talker, on whom, as Brookfield learnt to ... ...cted, by this time quite enlightened. All subtle feelings are discerned by Welsh eyes when un- troubled by any mental agitation. Brother and sister we... ...sh eyes when un- troubled by any mental agitation. Brother and sister were Welsh, and I may observe that there is human nature and Welsh nature. 219 ... ... in my estimates of Italian and Cymric blood. Singularly, too, she is part Welsh on the mother’s side, to judge by the name. Leave her mind entirely f...