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...here else to be met with. Hence a Frenchman, whose raillery, as it is, finds so little comprehension, would wither in a foreign land like an uprooted tree....

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...s so little comprehension, would wither in a foreign land like an uprooted tree. Emigration is counter to the instincts of the French nation. Many Fre... ...le- men were laid out on one of the long tables in the library. 23 Balzac MM. de Grandville and de Serizy had trusted to the Count to make the prelim... ...e hour, when we were startled by the man-servant calling me aside to say, ‘MM. the Cures of Saint-Paul and of the White Friars have been waiting in th... ...den was divided from mine by a paling, along which she had planted cypress trees already four feet high. One fine morning Madame Gobain an- nounced to...

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...aid, ‘How!’ and the Parsee left that cake and climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat, from which the rays of the sun were alway... ...romontories of the Larger Equinox. Then the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on its legs 12 Just So Stories and recited the foll... ...s as ever it could pos- sibly hold. Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on. ... ... 13 Rudyard Kipling him worse and worse and worse. Then he ran to the palm-tree and rubbed and rubbed and rubbed himself against it. He rubbed so much... ... account of the cake-crumbs inside. But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from which the rays of the sun were reflected in mor...

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...er of rocks, a glimmer of the track where it was well beaten, a certain fleecy density, or night within night, for a tree, – this was all that I could... ... mysteries of this day’s adventures; but I will take my oath that I put near an hour to the discovery. At last black trees began to show upon my left,... ...denly I touched the spirit-lamp. Salvation! This would serve my turn as well. The wind roared unwearyingly among the trees; I could hear the boughs to... ...s my eyelids touched, that subtle glue leaped between them, and they would no more come separate. The wind among the trees was my lullaby. Sometimes i... ...steady, even rush, not rising nor abating; and again it would swell and burst like a great crashing breaker, and the trees would patter me all over wi... ...on strangers have the liberty to speak), led me to a little room in that part of the building which is set apart for Mm. Les Retraitants. It was clean... ...ces in the ever- lasting psalm. Over the table, to conclude the inventory of the room, hung a set of regulations for Mm. Les Retraitants: what service...

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... men limped about the deck, casting wistful glances inland, where the palm-trees waved and beckoned them into their reviving shades. Poor 19 Melvill... ...dated condition; but in the forecastle it looked like the hollow of an old tree going to decay. In every direction the wood was damp and discoloured, ... ...it. The yard hung by a hair, and at every pitch, thumped against the cross-trees; while the sail streamed in ribbons, and the loose ropes coiled, and ... ...des so, on beholding them. As far as I know, there are but few bread-fruit trees in any part of the Pomotu group. In many places the cocoa-nut even d... ...ternoon. It was small and round, presenting one enamelled level, free from trees, and did not seem four feet above the water. Beyond it was another an... ... rude 128 Omoo hut of entertainment for mariners, and supplying them with mm and dice. Upon the missionary islands, of course, such conduct was sever...

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...ledge outside her window; and he returned from many of his trips with rose trees, or pansies, or any kind of flower which gardeners or tavern-keepers ... ...s of a damp atmosphere, touched by frost, crystallize on the branches of a tree by the wayside. She must have flung herself deep into the abysses of h... ... He himself took care of his espaliers, 46 The Village Rector trimmed his trees, gathered his fruit, and sent it to Limoges for sale, together with e... ...blouse, torn off by the servant-woman in the struggle, found close by on a tree to which the wind had carried it; his presence that evening near Pingr... ...he made that key? They find a bit of blue linen hanging to the branch of a tree, possibly put there by old Pingret himself to scare the crows, though ... ...e her nearest friends, those on whose discretion reliance could be placed. MM. Grossetete, de Grandville, Roubaud, Gerard, Clousier, Ruffin, took the ...

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...s given me one after the other, with the following remarkable result: mm.rnlls esrevel seecIde sgtssmf vnteief niedrke kt,samn a... ... initial letter is an “m” with a superscore over it. It appears to be an “mm” and has been rplaced accordingly.] When this work was ended my uncle to... ...re could my uncle be at that moment? I fancied him running under the noble trees which line the road to Altona, gesticulating, making shots with his c... ...arehouse, by the green banks of the strait, through the deep shades of the trees amongst which the fort is half con- cealed, where the guns are thrust... ...y the town but its envi- rons. The general aspect was wonderfully dull. No trees, and scarcely any vegetation. Everywhere bare rocks, signs of vol- ca... ...ve not others been here before me?” “Yes, Herr Liedenbrock; the labours of MM. Olafsen and Povelsen, pursued by order of the king, the researches of T... ...d by order of the king, the researches of T roil the scientific mission of MM. Gaimard and Robert on the French corvette La Recherche,* and lately the... ...apes. The last tufts of grass had disappeared from beneath our feet. Not a tree was to be seen, unless we except a few dwarf birches as low as brushwo... ... and in Germany. Several savants of the French Institute, and amongst them MM. Milne-Edwards and de Quatrefages, saw at once the importance of this di...

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...villages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preserves. The trees were all dusted with the green spangles of high spring, the hedges we... ... And when in the sunlit run by the sandy bank under the shadow of the pine trees he saw the chicks that had eaten the food he had mixed for them, giga... ...Hicklebrow Coombe to the downs. There at the foot of the downs where a big tree gave an air of shelter she rested for a space on a stile. Then on agai... ...s should be so—but since he has been on the Herakleophorbia treat- ment—” “Mm,” said Bensington, regarding his fingers with more resignation than he h... ...bring anything.” 51 H G Wells “The canary creeper’s got in among the pine trees now,” said the man with the lorgnette. “It wasn’t there this morn- in... ...ha- loes about them. The three men peered out from under the 55 H G Wells trees—they did not care to go right to the edge of the wood— and watched th... ...Association, by-the-bye, has founded a branch for T emperance in Growth.” “Mm,” said Bensington and stroked his nose. “After all that has happened the... ...rim is fixed, with an expression of inscrutable severity, on Cousin Jane, “Mm,” he says, and sips. So we make our souvenir, so we focus and photograph...

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...don’t see it at all,’ she said. ‘You can’t, he protested, ‘any more than a tree can help budding in April—it can’t help itself, if it’s alive; same wi... ... reedy, metallic tone, that set his nerves quivering: ‘But I am not a bare tree. All my dead leaves, they hang to me—and—and go through a kind of dans... ..., and the moon hurried laughing alongside, through the black masses of the trees. He had forgotten he was going home for this night. The chill wetness... ...world lay in a glamorous pallor, casting shad- ows that made the farm, the trees, the bulks of villas, look like live creatures. The same pallor went ... ...lf. It seemed that every fibre in his body was surprised with joy, as each tree in a forest at dawn utters astonished cries of delight. When Helena ca... ...quickly in the glass, and replied: ‘That is the sun. Hasn’t it been hot?’ ‘Mm! It made my nose all peel. V era said she would scrape me like a new pot...

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...rom which the brambles straggle like stray locks of hair. Here and there a tree shoots boldly up; flowers bloom on the slopes of the wayside ditch, ba... ...en along its double width of way. The great 6 Sons of the Soil age of the trees, the breadth of the avenue, the venerable construction of the lodges,... ...istance, the first tableau is now seen,—a mill and its dam, a causeway and trees, linen laid out to dry, the thatched cottage of the miller, his fish-... ...ter it, the park is gloomy, the walls are hidden by creeping plants and by trees that for fifty years have heard no sound of axe. One might think it a... ...hrough some phenomenon granted exclu- sively to forests. The trunks of the trees are swathed with lichen which hangs from one to another. Mistletoe, w... ...e land-owners who trust the care of their prop- erty to Gaubertin (such as MM. de Soulanges and de Ronquerolles) are not devastated. The dead wood is ...

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...s, but not so steep as to terrify. At a vast distance below he saw through tree-stems and blue haze a twisted strand of bright whiteness, the river th... ...vention. Be- hind him he saw a peasant appearing and disappearing be- hind trees and projecting rock masses, and coming across the previous plank at a... ...amusement, those ideals of the nurs- ery, the whole purpose of mankind….” “Mm,” said White, and pressed his lips together and knot- ted his brows and ... ...s familiar. And then came another cry from far away over the heat-stripped tree-tops, a less fa- miliar cry. It was repeated. Was that perhaps some cr... ...that might be a deer. Then suddenly an angry chattering came from the dark trees quite close at hand. A monkey? … These great, scarce visible, sweepin... ...age well. The clustering village itself slept in darkness beyond the mango trees, and still remoter the black encircling jungle closed in. One might h...

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...s towards the church. There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding... ...n surf-rush, floating all white beside her father in the morning shadow of trees, her veil flowing with laughter. ‘That’s done it!’ she said. She put ... ...ming! The bells were ringing, making the air shake. Ursula wondered if the trees and the flowers could feel the vibration, and what they thought of it... ...ross a sloping meadow that might be a park, because of the large, solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at th... ...w was pleasant; a highroad curving round the edge of a low lake, under the trees. In the spring air, the water gleamed and the opposite woods were pur... ...diots, great giggling idiots!’ cried the father inflamed with irritation. ‘Mm-m-er!’ booed Ursula, pulling a face at his crossness. The yellow lights ...

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...from the great Foundling Hospital in Paris. He had been apprenticed to the MM. Didot, and between the ages of fourteen and seventeen he was David Sech... ...id’s workshop to announce the two printers, “while my husband was with the MM. Didot he came to know of excellent work- ers, honest and industrious me... ...“legal.” Master Doublon registered the protest and went himself with it to MM. Cointet Brothers. The firm had a standing account with their bailiff; h... ...o pay his bill on the 3rd of May, that is, the day after it was protested, MM. Cointet Broth- ers would have met him at once with, “We have returned y... ...he country doctor’s ramshackle chaise came up to the door, and out stepped MM. Marron, for the cure was the doctor’s 86 Eve and David uncle. Lucien’s... ...attempt at comfort or luxury in the country in those days. A row of orange-trees, pomegranates, and rare plants stood before the house on the side of ... ...M. Marron’s hands. David was enjoying his holiday sitting under an orange- tree with his wife, and father, and little Lucien, when the bailiff from Ma...

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...m. He explored the Amazon, and found, newly exposed by the fall of a great tree, a rock of gold. Engaged in these pursuits he would neglect the work i... ...g with paper and string and thinking of perennial picnics under dark olive trees in the everlasting sunshine of Italy. And about that time it was that... ... hamlets and old churches, its farms and ricks and great barns and ancient trees, its pools and ponds and shining threads of rivers; its flower-starre... ...st happy wanderers in a world of pleasant breezes and song birds and shady trees. The arrival at the inn was a great affair. No one, they were convinc... ...ne clapping time with his hands while the fiddler played. The shade of the trees did not altogether shut out the sun- shine, the grass in the wood was... ...ly had me. I wasn’t a second too soon—ducking…. Awkward—that night was…. M’mm…. But I don’t blame him—come to that. Only I don’t see what it’s all up ...

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...all—slid down into the road below, completely blocking it up. The uprooted trees swayed and tottered for a moment like drunken giants in the gloom, an... ...is land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveler passes. Then they drop upon his nec... ... loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels. Now and again a spot o... ...the more they’ll fight, and the better for us. From Jagdallak to Ashang. H’mm!” “But all the information about the country is as sketchy and inaccurat... ...the past two years, the machines worked with more clatter, and some of the trees in the office garden were a few feet taller. But that was all the dif... ...time of answering, I will,’ said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil, the sun being on his crown and beard an... ...en finger and thumb and sniffing at it scornfully. “What does this mean? H’mm,” said he. “So far as I can ascertain it is an attempt to write extremel...

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...t wide space of moonlit grass, rimmed by the looming suggestion of distant trees—trees very low and faint and dim, and over it all the domed serenity ... ...rifted brood- 90 In the Days of the Comet ingly across the grass, and the trees rose ghostly out of that phantom sea. Great and shadowy and strange w... ...ht. Three times I fired it. The bullets tore through the air, the startled trees told one another in diminishing echoes the thing I had done, and then... ...onspicuous a factor in the life of those days, and which rendered our vast tree-pulp newspapers possible, referred to foods, drinks, to- bacco, and th... ...the road, woods that frayed out at the edges to weirdly warped and stunted trees. Then isolated pine witches would appear, and make their rigid gestur... ...ibble, scribble. Max Sutaine, 1885. Hubbub. Compliments about the oysters. Mm—mm… . What was it? About the war? A war that must needs be long and bloo...

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...s mark out upon the walls before mid-day. The little balcony of wrought iron which advanced in front of this window was furnished with a pot of red gi... ...at habitation: he, perhaps, has been with us there before, and knows it. Only, since our last journey thither, the walls had taken a grayer tint, and ... ...ed to fly. “From that moment my history became a romance. Pur- sued with persistent inveteracy, I cut off my hair, I dis- guised myself as a woodman. ... ...other, — silence!” said Louis, in a sup- pressed voice. “Take care that no one hears you! We have not obtained our end yet. To ask money of Mazarin — ... ...ne of your friends?” “Certainly.” “M. de V anin?” “M. de V anin! ah! they may do what they like with him, but —” “But —” “But they must not touch the ... ...d the marquise, “that is clear enough, I think. Besides, that is not all. Read on, read on;” and Fouquet continued, —”The two first to death, the thir... ...rous, or as skillful as D’Artagnan, without being at the same time inclined to be a dreamer. He had picked up, here and there, some scraps of M. de la... ...ushed again, and said: “I do not think that can be the case, for my verses have never been printed.” “Well, then, it must have been the tragedy which ... ...and that not being at all known to you, you have never heard tell of me.” “Ah! that confounds me. That name, Jupenet, appears to me, nevertheless, a f...

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...oo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was boom- ing among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels. Now and again a spot o... ...the more they’ll fight, and the better for us. From Jagdallak to Ashang. H’mm!” “But all the information about the country is as sketchy and inaccurat... ...the past two years, the machines worked with more clatter, and some of the trees in the office garden were a few feet taller. But that was all the dif... ...time of answering, I will,’ said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil, the sun being on his crown and beard an... ...n close beside. “But do you know what they did to Peachey between two pine-trees? They crucified him, Sir, as Peachey’s hand will show. They used wood...

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...iscover that dreadful little boy peeping at him from the crotch in the yew-tree in the next garden. As though God had sent him to be a witness! Their ... ...loyer’s garden, and at a long vista of newly-mown lawn under great shapely trees just budding into green. “I can’t admit,” he said, “that these troubl... ...ical age. Never before had the cuttings and heapings, the smashing down of trees, the obtrusion of corrugated iron and tar, the belchings of smoke and... ...ght. He perceived it as a place, but it was a place without build- ings or trees or any very definite features. There was a cloudy suggestion of dista... ... existed. He turned his back upon it and stared out of the window over the trees and greenery. The balcony was decorated with white and pink geraniums... ...t’s as much friendship as anything. I go by the evening train to-morrow.” “Mm,” said Serope with his eye on Eleanor. “In these uncertain times,” he be...

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... has known the satisfaction of propping one of the grand- est genealogical trees in the kingdom in its fall, it is so natural to interest oneself in i... ..., and events in profound sayings; he would have put you in mind of a fruit-tree putting forth all its strength in blossom. He was leading an enervatin... ... equal of a Marchesa di Spinola.” And, on the strength of his genealogical tree, the old man swung himself off with a coxcomb’s air, as if he himself ... ...le. Armande asked after a while. “Du Croisier has sent instructions to the MM. Keller; he is not to be allowed to draw any more without authorization.... ...e space taken up beneath them in the garden by a walk shaded with chestnut trees was filled in the yard by a row of out- buildings. An old rust-devour... ...ve entrance into the gloomy place (made gloomier still by the great walnut-tree which grew in the yard), but a double flight of steps, with an elabora...

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..., as she said, ‘to any evening thing but just stupid childish things, only trees and magic-lanterns’; and would not quite believe Gillian, who assured... ...hey arrived, and were received by Macrae with the pony carriage, while the trees of Silverfold looked exquisite in their autumn red, gold, and brown. ... ...calm temper of our age should be Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree,’ for the character in course of formation needs to be guarded by pric... ...pent in the whole course of my life, except at Lady Merrifield’s Christmas-tree! And now to go home in a carriage! I never went in one since I can re-... ...im. “My dear Fergus, I hope”— 109 Beechcroft At Rockstone hurrah— “Harry, mm—mm—mm—brothers, 20th mm— mm. Your affectionate cousin, David Merrifield.... ...etter satisfied to stay within reach of Kitty and mamma, and the Christmas-trees that began to dawn on the horizon, than to be carried into an unknown...

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...aid D’Artagnan, with chagrin. “As one confides a letter to the hollow of a tree, to the wing of a pigeon, to the collar of a dog.” “And yet, me—you se... ...s handkerchief, he gagged him. “Now,” said Planchet, “let us bind him to a tree.” This being properly done, they drew the Comte de Wardes close to his... ...is master. In fact, we must not dissemble that the oscillation of the tall trees and the reflection of the moon in the dark underwood gave him serious... ...indow shone a mild light which silvered the foliage of two or three linden trees which formed a group outside the park. There could be no doubt that b... ...ointed, and D’Artagnan could get no hold. At that moment he thought of the trees, upon whose leaves the light still shone; and as one of them drooped ... ...peated by Lord de Winter and his friend, was highly applauded, ex- cept by MM. Grimaud, Bazin, Mousqueton and Planchet. Lord de Winter, on quitting D’... ... earnest wish, he was delayed by the dissen- sions which broke out between MM. Bassompierre and Schomberg, against the Duc d’Angouleme. MM. Bassompier... ...n- stigation, had named lieutenant general. The result was that to prevent MM. Bassompierre and Schomberg from desert- ing the army, a separate comman...

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... band was playing, clusters of chairs were gathered be- neath all the lime-trees, and buxom, white-capped nurses, seated along the benches, were offer... ...y lazy, and I should like to spend six months as I am now, sitting under a tree and listening to a band. There’s only one thing; I want to hear some g... ... a bit. But we can find something better for you to do than to sit under a tree. To begin with, you must come to the club.” “What club?” “The Occident... ... for the winter. His summer had been very full, and he sat under the great trees beside the miniature river that trickles past the Baden flower- beds,... ...m stranger than either. You will even find my sister a little strange. Old trees have crooked branches, old houses have queer cracks, old races have o... ...tor observed that it was time his patient’s wound should be dressed again; MM. de Grosjoyaux and Ledoux, who had already witnessed this delicate opera... ...d him, through the half-open door, Newman saw the two questioning faces of MM. de Grosjoyaux and Ledoux. The doctor laid his hand on Valentin’s wrist ...

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...a postern, flanked with a wall of masonry, beyond which rises a bouquet of trees planted by the hands of Breton nature, one of the most luxuriant and ... ...st, is framed by an African desert banked by the ocean,—a desert without a tree, an herb, a bird; where, on sunny days, the laboring paludiers, clothe... ...d by two jambs, is of granite. The gate, of oak, rugged as the bark of the tree itself, is studded with enormous nails placed in geometric figures. Th... ...hin is divided into squares for vegetables, bordered with cordons of fruit-trees, which the man-of-all-work, named Gasselin, takes care of in the inte... ...de the fireplace on the garden side. Near this gnarled trunk of an ancient tree, and in front of the fireplace, the baroness, seated on one of the ant... ...ight of a chest covered with tarred cloth on which were painted the words, MM. La Marquise de Rochefide. The name shone before him like a talisman; he...

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...l was driven to run about the splen- did convent gardens; she hurried from tree to tree, she rushed into the darkest nooks—seeking? What? She did not ... ...ow, but she fell a prey to the demon; she carried on a flirtation with the trees, she appealed to them in unspoken words. Sometimes, in the evening, s... ...t and to the young poet. The courtyard was gloomy; large, thick 45 Balzac trees shaded the garden. Silence and reserve are always found in the dwelli... ...ir, was mechanically contemplating the hues of the setting sun through the trees in the garden, blowing up the mist of scented smoke in slow, regular ... ...’s, as to tell the story, with some added pleasantries, in the presence of MM. de Bauvan and de Granville, of her attempt to get a commis- sion of lun... ...round Lucien, wrapping him like a web caught by the wind and flung about a tree. “Parted.—Is it true?” “Oh, just for a few days,” replied Lucien. Esth... ...of chiefs of the police and the hero of the department, highly esteemed by MM. Lenoir and d’Albert, the last Lieutenant-Generals of Police. The Revolu... ...te de Gondreville, that it is to oblige one of the men who relieved him of MM. de Simeuse, and he will work it—” “Here den, mensieur,” said the Baron,... ...me du Val-Noble in the Champs-Elysees, this last of the agents employed by MM. de Sartine and Lenoir had arrived, pro- vided with a passport, at the H...

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...ney shortly. The journey to Normandy is postponed. The King has despatched MM. De Bellieure and de la Guiche to M. de Guise to sum- mon him to court; ... ...it on his horse, he commanded his steward to set him down at the foot of a tree, but so that he might die with his face towards the enemy, which he di... ...with the duration of mountains, rivers, stars, 134 Essays: Book the First trees, and even of some animals, is no less ridiculous.—[ Seneca, Consol. a... ...my house, a little while ago, a cat seen watching a bird upon the top of a tree: these, for some time, mutually fixing their eyes one upon another, th... ...has never seen a larger river, a mighty stream; and so with other things—a tree, a man—anything appears greatest to him that never knew a 242 Essays:... ...of capacity to hold two or three hundred people, made of the barks of tall trees, reared with one end upon the ground, and leaning to and supporting o...

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...ereft of vines, and where, in default of vegetation under the shade of two trees, papers collect, old rags, potsherds, bits of mortar fallen from the ... ...d, where time has shed on the walls, and on the trunks and branches of the trees, a powdery deposit like cold soot. The two parts of the house, set at... ...- longed, who crowded her drawing-room on great occasions, were to be seen MM. de Marsay and de Ronquerolles, de Montriveau, de la Roche-Hugon, de Ser...

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...alry served continually also, and was reduced almost entirely to leaves of trees for provender. The household of the King, accustomed to all sorts of ... ...often amused himself with falconry. One day a magpie perched on one of his trees, and neither sticks nor stones could dislodge it. La V arenne and a n... ...d dislodge it. La V arenne and a number of sports- men gathered around the tree and tried to drive away the magpie. Importuned with all this noise, th... ... one evening he found himself surrounded by a great light, close against a tree and near Salon. A woman clad in white—but altogether in a royal manner... ...ing, and the queen then disappeared. He found himself in darkness near the tree. He lay down and passed the night there, scarcely knowing whether he w... ... and scrapings, and his words. The King asked him if he were a relation of MM. le Tellier. The good father humbled himself in the dust. “I, Sire!” an-... ...ther humbled himself in the dust. “I, Sire!” an- swered he, “a relative of MM. le Tellier! I am very different from that. I am a poor peasant of Lower... ... de Brissac, his brother-in-law. It was she who unwittingly put the cap on MM. de Brissac, which they have ever since worn in their arms, and which ha...

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...journalist and the neophyte went to the Luxembourg, and sat down under the trees in that part of the gardens which lies between the broad Avenue de l’... ...There, on a bench 84 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris beneath the lime-trees, Etienne Lousteau sat and listened to sample-sonnets from the Marguer... ... the poet looked up at his Aristarchus. Etienne Lousteau was gazing at the trees in the Pepiniere. “Well?” asked Lucien. “Well, my dear fellow, go on!... ... have the honor of playing for you this evening, gentlemen, is the work of MM. Raoul and de Cursy.” “Why, Nathan is partly responsible,” said Lousteau... ... a short scrutiny, he returned them to Lucien with a serious countenance. “MM Fendant and Cavalier are delightful young fellows; they have plenty of i...

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... sea, and who has just walked, for the first time, in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, can be a judge of anything but his own happiness. The island would g... ...as discovered, the immediate neighbourhood of Porto Praya was clothed with trees,* the reckless destruction of which has caused here, as at St. Hel- e... ... moun- tain, some great masses of the columnar rock, shaded by laurel-like trees, and ornamented by others cov- ered with fine pink flowers but withou... ...g it, I was overtaken by a tropical storm. I tried to find shelter under a tree, which was so thick that it would never have been penetrated by common... ...an interest which it would not otherwise have pos- sessed. The few stunted trees were loaded with para- sitical plants, among which the beauty and del... ...possibly of an elephant,* and of a hol- low-horned ruminant, discovered by MM. Lund and Clausen in the caves of Brazil, are highly interesting facts w... ... the great collection lately brought to Europe from the caves of Brazil by MM. Lund and Clausen. In this collection there are extinct species of all t... ...th this fact, when I found, to my surprise, that the descriptions given by MM. Quoy and Gaimard were applicable, not to reefs in general as implied by...

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...eak, and tongue, so admirably adapted to catch in- sects under the bark of trees. In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certa... ...es. In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which... ...ll have been rock- pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly perching on trees. But besides C. livia, with its geographical sub-species, only two or... ...ppin or Codlin-apple, could ever have proceeded from the seeds of the same tree. Innumerable other examples could be given. The ex- planation, I think... ...which may almost be com- pared to the irregular branching of the stem of a tree. This philosophical naturalist, I may add, has also quite recently sho... ...istant parts of the world, has greatly struck those admirable observ- ers, MM. de Verneuil and d’Archiac. After referring to the parallelism of the pa... ...even more clearly seen in the wonderful collection of fossil bones made by MM. Lund and Clausen in the caves of Brazil. I was so much impressed with t...

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...gth and not noticed allusively and rather obscurely — as we find it; 2) as MM. Croiset remark, if the poet needed a lay-figure the ordinary practice w... ...or ‘when the artichoke flowers and the clicking grass- hopper, seated in a tree, pours down his shrill song’, is the time for rest. Hesiod’s charm lie... ... Sages; the address to Glaucus (xi) is purely Hesiodic; xiii, according to MM. Croiset, is a fragment from a gnomic poem. Epigram xiv is a curious poe... ...ulted, but especially the Hist. de la Litterature Grecque I pp. 459 ff. of MM. Croiset. The summary account in Prof. Murray’s “Anc. Gk. Lit.” is writ-... ...ther made a third generation of mortal men, a brazen race, sprung from ash-trees (4); and it was in no way equal to the silver age, but was terrible a... ...n of ten palms’ width. Hew also many bent timbers, and bring home a plough-tree when you have found it, and look out on the mountain or in the field f... ...rel or elm are most free from worms, and a share-beam of oak and a plough- tree of holm-oak. Get two oxen, bulls of nine years; for their strength is ... ...t when the artichoke flowers (27), and the chirping grass-hopper sits in a tree and pours down his shrill song continually from under his wings in the...

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...rim grey sea; not even the gleam of red tiles; not even the greenness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fish... ...ve nothing specially to say. W e look fairly like summer this morning; the trees are black- ening out of their spring greens; the warmer suns have mel... ...follow- ing, in a triumphant chaunt: ‘Thank God for the grass, and the fir-trees, and the crows, and the sheep, and the sun- shine, and the shadows of... ...d the crows, and the sheep, and the sun- shine, and the shadows of the fir-trees.’ I hold that he is a poor mean devil who can walk alone, in such a p... ...arc. You sit drinking iced drinks and smoking penny cigars under great old trees. The band place, cov- ered walks, etc., are all lit up. And you can’t... ...about my health. I am not at all ill; have quite recovered; only I am what Mm. Les Medecins call below par; which, in plain English, is that I am weak...

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... landscape frightened me. There were houses, men, children. And there were trees. I began to wonder what a tree looks like, and laughed copiously. 25... ...cles through the slit over the whang-klang. I can just see leaves, meaning tree. Then from the left and way off, faintly, broke a smooth whistle, cool... ...and my assignment to a section sanitaire? And my friend was with me? H-mmm-mm. A perfectly typical runt of a Paris bull eyed us. The older saluted him... ...e to face with a little wooden man hanging all by itself in a grove of low trees. —The wooden body, clumsy with pain, burst into fragile legs with abs... ...galed themselves with the horizontal bar; and finally, a dozen mangy apple-trees, fighting for their very lives in the angry soil, proclaimed to all t... ...inst the wall in the general vicinity of the cabinet; to protect the apple-trees into which well-aimed pieces of wood and stone were continually flyin...

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...tel du Peuple” written on it; the Boulevards were barricaded with fine old trees that were cut down and stretched all across the road. We went through... ...s cottage at Claygate stood just without the village, well surrounded with trees and commanding a pleasant view. A piece of the garden was turfed over... ...gowans; – potatoes here and there, looking but sickly; and dark sturdy fig-trees looking cool and at their ease in the burning sun. ‘Here we are at Fo... ...take not) in preference to the friar’s, or the owl– and bat-haunted tower. MM. T– and S– will be left there: T–, an intelligent, hard- working Frenchm... ...ten the centre of the huge shallow marsh; hawks hover and scream among the trees under the high mouldering battlements. – A little lower down, the ban... ...sage… . I am on famil- iar terms with cocoa-nuts, mangoes, and bread-fruit trees, but I think I like the negresses best of anything I have seen. In tu...

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...thing but God and my friend—” “Get bedder, and ve vill lif like kings, all tree of us,” ex- claimed Schmucke. “Cibot!” panted the portress as she ente... ...ll account of the immense services ren- dered during the past ten years to MM. Pons and Schmucke. The two old men, to all appearance, could not exist ...