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...the verdict of Lord Tennyson’s hero is less eccentric than appears. Few men who come to the islands leave them; they grow grey where 4 In The South S... ...onsiderable than our Scottish heath. Again the cliff yawned, but now with a deeper entry; and the Casco, haul- ing her wind, began to slide into the b... ...islands and not found their parallel. It was longer ere we spied the native village, standing (in the universal fashion) close upon a curve of beach, ... ...heir fin- gers, clapping hands, or beating (loud as a kettledrum) on the left breast; the time was exquisite, the music barba- rous, but full of consc... ...es, to greet the king. If he be pleased with his welcome and the fare he may pass days on board, and, every day, and sometimes every hour, will be of ...

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...ned Wilbur. The brown sweater wiped a thin mustache in the hol- low of his palm, and wiped that palm upon his trouser leg. “Yessir,” he continued, onc... ...a child reft of a toy. Then again she scooped the nor’wester in the hollow palms of her tense canvases and settled quietly down on the new tack, her b... ...ow he had brains. “Well, you see, son,” Kitchell had explained to Wilbur, “os-tensiblee we are after shark-liver oil—and so we are; 22 Moran of the L... ..., hy-yah!” he cried, leaning from the barrel and calling through an arched palm. “Hy-yah, one two, plenty, many tortle, topside, wattah; hy-yah, all-s... ...ny of the succeeding days. He and Moran were left a good deal to their own devices. Charlie was the master of the men now. “Mate,” said Moran to Wilbu...

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...e!” “A y A y, sir! There she blows! there—there—thar she blows—bowes—bo-o- os!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder and lightning! so near... ...ed, as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms. It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or oth... ...holy nakedness of our dancing girls!—the Heeva-Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I sa... ... He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vi... ...d in front, so the whale’s vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun. Moreover, as th... ...ible, he swam so fast and furious. What then remained? Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to ... ...re ingenious of his people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices, chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes; ...

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...g incredible. He swore to her it was true. His eyes snapped. He struck his palm with his fist. “An old maid like me?” repeated Laura. “Old maid nothin... ....” He was all commiseration and self-reproach at once, and turned her hand palm upwards, looking for the scratch. “Um!” she breathed. “It hurts.” “Whe... ...y’s eye glinted in his direction. He struck his play-book sharply into the palm of his hand. “Come, come!” he cried. “No more nonsense. Now we leave t... ...lendour of natural woods and dull “colour effects,” its cunning electrical devices, its mechanical contrivances for comfort, like the ready- made luxu... ...s mains pour l’embrasser; Mais je n’ai plus trouve q’un horrible melange D’os et de chair meurtris et traines dans la fange, Des lambeaux pleins de sa...

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...ens. And if nothing happens very soon you won’t get even that. What’s your os- tensible occupation? What are you supposed to live by?” “I keep a shop,... ... wild eagerness. An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive... ...extended hand, shook it, re- tained it for a moment in his great cushioned palm with unem- barrassed friendliness, and turned upon the semi-private no... ...His elbow on the desk, his thin legs crossed, and nursing his cheek in the palm of his meagre hand, the Assistant Commis- sioner in charge of the Spec... ... been led by the hand to the spot, and then abandoned hurriedly to his own devices. The infer- ence is that he was imported from abroad for the purpos...

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... IN T T T T TWEL WEL WEL WEL WELVE CANT VE CANT VE CANT VE CANT VE CANTOS. OS. OS. OS. OS. Osais de Broton ethnos aglaiais aptomestha perainei pros es... ...dour is so sweet and faint, And weeds, like branching chrysolite, Woven in devices fine and quaint. And tears from her brown eyes did stain ... ... of a temple, built above, Distinct with column, arch, and architrave, And palm-like capital, and over-wrought, And populous with most living imagery,... ... few Where the bud-blighted flowers of happiness grew. Our feet now, every palm, Are sandalled with calm, And the dew of our wings is a rain of balm; ... ... _80 There rest no heavier sin than what they suffer From the devices of my love—a net From which he shall escape not. Yet I fear Her sub... ... my blood seems liquid fire; And if I strike my damp and dizzy head My hot palm scorches it: her very name, But spoken by a stranger, makes my heart S...

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...the crush of the entrance hall. Chattering, swirl- ing people, red carpet, palms green against cream-and-gilt walls, small whirlpools of life at the o... ...rter an English shilling. The porter let the coin lie in the middle of his palm, as if it were a live beetle, and darted to the light of the carriage ... ...volubly. The cabman, wild with interest, peered down from the box into the palm of the porter, and carried on an impassioned dialogue. Aaron stood wit... ... and mysterious with up-to-date conveniences. There he was left to his own devices, and felt like a small boy finding out how it works. For even the m... ...glishman. He had crossed the dividing line, and the values of life, though os- tensibly and verbally the same, were dynamically different. Alas, howev...

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...ranslator of Books X. XVI. Would have preferred “c” and “us” to “k” and “os” in the spelling of all proper names. The text followed has been that of... ...ught Chryseis of the fair cheeks and set her therein; and Odysseus of many devices went to be their captain. So these embarked and sailed over the wet... ...ene stood by him and said: “Heaven sprung son of Laertes, Odysseus of many devices, will ye indeed fling yourselves upon your benched ships to flee ho... ...ur covenants and our oaths? Let all counsels be cast into the fire and all devices of warriors and the pure drink offerings and the right hands of fel... ...fell backward on the rock. Now from its head sprang there horns of sixteen palms; these the artificer, even the worker in horn, joined cunningly toget... ... had woven her pierced the dart into the flesh, above the springing of the palm. Then flowed the goddess’s immortal blood, such ichor as floweth in th... ...through the corslet, and he fell in the dust and clutched the earth in his palms. And Idomeneus drew forth the far shadowing spear from the dead, but ...

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...ostino murmured assentingly. “In our Journal,” said Carlo, holding out the palm of one hand to dot the forefinger of the other across it, by way of pe... ...r her children. She received disaffected persons: she subscribed her money os- tentatiously for notoriously patriotic purposes; and she who, in her fa... ...She laid herself down sideways, curling up her feet, with her cheek on the palm of her hand. Angelo knelt and coaxed the fire, whose appetite, like th... ...d helpless bleeding man, with his eyeballs working under the lids, and the palms of his hands stretched out open-weak as a corpse, but conquering deat... ...nteers, with proud eulogies of Carlo Ammiani’s gallant leadership; but the devices of Barto Rizzo appeared to have struck his imagination most. “He is...

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...slowly and emphatically beating it all out with his open right hand on the palm of his left; ‘I, Roger Riderhood, Lime’us Hole, W a- terside character... ...stern action of homage bent his head, and stretched out his hands with the palms downward, as if to deprecate the wrath of a superior. ‘What have you ... ...ascend the 278 Our Mutual Friend stairs. As he toiled on before, with his palm upon the stair- rail, and his long black skirt, a very gaberdine, over... ... answer, Everything!’ See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless os- triches plunge their heads! It is such unspeakable moral com- 305 Char... ... rest, for their course has one sure termination, though their sources and devices are many . Then, a carriage ride succeeded, near the solemn river, ...

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... acquired the name of Homer, for the Cumans call blind men Homers.” [Note: Os ei tous, Homerous doxei trephein autois, omilon pollon te kai achreoin e... ...th his arrows bled; The stately quarry on the cliffs lay dead, And sixteen palms his brow’s large honours spread: The workmen join’d, and shaped the b... ...comes the old: To you the glorious conflict I resign, Let sage advice, the palm of age, be mine.” He said. With joy the monarch march’d before, And fo... ...great, the glorious now no more!” This said, she wiped from Venus’ wounded palm The sacred ichor, and infused the balm. Juno and Pallas with a smile s... ...the mission is resumed.” 128 With tablets sealed. These probably were only devices of a hieroglyphical character. Whether writing was known in the Hom...

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...ust audible sigh. Madame Merle, holding her hand, drew it across her own fine palm and looked at it. The gaze was critical, but it found nothing to dep... ...f a Lady Madame Merle flushed as with a wounded intention. “Don’t be foolish, Os mond. No one knows better than you what is worth an effort. Haven’t I... ...would have been as smooth to his general need of her as handled ivory to the palm. If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during the... ...g, and Ralph Touchett was to take his cousin back to Florence on the morrow. Os mond had found the girl alone; Miss Stackpole had contracted a friend... ...er he supposed—that the affianced pair were daily renewing their mutual vows. Os mond at this moment showed himself little at Palazzo Crescentini; but... ...which was entered from the staircase and in which even Gilbert Osmond’s rich devices had not been able to correct a look of rather grand nudity. just ...

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...of the avowal that had passed. He held out his love so freely, in his open palm, that she felt it could be nothing but a toy, which she might play wit... ...marble. Such lov- ing care and nicest art had been lavished here, that the palm really seemed to have a tenderness in its very substance. T ouching th... ...ose, because you must have wrought it passionately, in spite of its maiden palm and dainty fingertips.” “Then you do recognize it?” asked Kenyon. “The... ...cience,—and multitudes whose hearts and minds find good employment in less os- tentatious ways,—who lead high, lonely lives, and are con- scious of no... ...ild play, Nature had adopted the Fountain of Trevi, with all its elaborate devices, for her own. Finally, the water, tumbling, sparkling, and dashing,...

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...ysterious goings and comings of their own, and left me very much to my own devices. Their speech in my presence was full of unfathomable allusions. Th... ...ogether in a shop; she had the precisest ideas of what she wanted, and the devices of the salesman did not sway her. It was very pleasant to find her ... ...far beyond anything that is now provided, if it cannot collectively invent devices and solve problems on a much richer, broader scale than it does at ... ...day. I’ve a curious impression of greenish colour, hot, moist air and huge palm fronds about very much of our talk, as though we were nearly all the t... ...d for me to marry without the scandalous and ugly publicity, the taint and os- tracism that follow such a readjustment. We went on to the whole perple... ...om the plough!” He leant forward on his desk and opened an argumenta- tive palm. “You know, Remington,” he said, “and I know, that if this could be fe... ... and this,’ to all the world. All the world! … I will!” Britten rubbed the palm of his hand on the corner of his desk. “That’s all very well, Remingto...

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...ke a hen’s. His plum- age was fine—none of the half-mourning style of your os- trich—more like a cassowary as far as colour and texture go. And then i... ... him alone for a bit, until the affair blew over. I shinned up the tallest palm- tree, and sat there thinking of it all. I don’t suppose I ever felt s... ...tankerous an extinct bird can be. Malice! “I won’t tell you all the little devices I tried to get that bird round again, I simply can’t. It makes my c... ...hat. Half my time I spent up to my neck in the lagoon, and the rest up the palm-trees. One of them was scarcely high enough, and when he caught me up ... ...legs. It got unbearable. I don’t know if you have ever tried sleeping up a palm-tree. It gave me the most hor- rible nightmares. Think of the shame of... ...tionableness of falsifying a most extraordinary true story, any such trite devices would spoil, to my mind, the peculiar effect of this dark world, wi... ... Gurker by a sudden frankness. One has sometimes to resort to these little devices… And then it was that in the margin of my field of vision I became ...

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...of the avowal that had passed. He held out his love so freely, in his open palm, that she felt it could be nothing but a toy, which she might play wit... ...marble. Such lov- ing care and nicest art had been lavished here, that the palm really seemed to have a tenderness in its very substance. T ouching th... ...ose, because you must have wrought it passionately, in spite of its maiden palm and dainty fingertips.” “Then you do recognize it?” asked Kenyon. “The... ...cience,—and multitudes whose hearts and minds find good employment in less os- tentatious ways,—who lead high, lonely lives, and are con- scious of no... ...ild play, Nature had adopted the Fountain of Trevi, with all its elaborate devices, for her own. Finally, the water, tumbling, sparkling, and dashing,...

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...kicker’s discomfiture. Slane walked to Jerry Blazes and hung over him with os- tentatious anxiety, while Simmons, weeping with pain, was carried away.... ... that kind, anyhow. And now run along, Minnie, and leave me to my own base devices. I’m busy. MRS. G. (Calmly settling herself in long chair.) So I se... ...nd Avesta; encouraged White, Gray and Black Magic, including spiritualism, palmistry, fortune-telling by cards, hot chestnuts, double-kernelled nuts a... ...to the Old Man of the Mountains for an explanation. A letter, written on a palm-leaf, dropped from the ceiling, but every one except Lone Sahib felt t...

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...t and uncertainty. In this, however, the old mariner was mistaken, for the Os- wego Rift and the Oswego Falls are very different in their char- acters... ...lt, dropped the barrel of his rifle with but little apparent care into the palm of his left hand, raised the muzzle for a single instant with exceedin... ...particular that the incidents which had occurred during the descent of the Os- wego had made so little impression on her mind. Too inexpe- rienced to ... ...n get to be easterly. When the day dawned, the cutter had the mouth of the Os- wego well under the lee, distant about two miles; and just as the morni... ...ivided between them, that I often fancy this is the one that bears off the palm, and then the other! Ah! the late Mrs. Muir was a paragon in that way ... ...the island, and some twenty savages, horrible in their paint and the other devices of Indian ingenuity, rushed forward, eager to secure the coveted sc...

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...The high and mighty Emperor of the East doth at this moment put money in the palm of a holy begging friar — one, two, three pieces, and they be all of... ...ull; they were hammered, not minted, and they were so worn with use that the devices upon them were as illegible as blisters, and looked like them. I ...

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...ng women were busy over the very beautiful work by which flowers and other devices were represented by in- laying different coloured marbles and semi-... ...rrid,’ said Mysie stoutly; ‘I only fancied her so when she used to say, “V os coudes, mademoiselle,” or “Redresses-vous,” and when she would not let u... ...said Ivinghoe. ‘I should like to live to be a great old statesman, as Lord Palmerston did, and have it all my own way. Wouldn’t I bring things round a... ...handsome as ever, had the good sense 310 Charlotte M. Young to resign the palm of beauty, and be gratified with the admi- ration for one whom she acc...

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...as, her sense of submission to a destiny. Looked at from the height of the palm- waving cherubs over the fallen martyr in the picture, she seemed as n... ...a prisoner’s window, her ‘eager heart could have termed it—of a remarkable os- tentation of cordiality between the colonel and Cecil, in the presence ... ...y, necessarily followed by tremendous convulsions. BOOK 3 CHAPTER XIX LORD PALMET, AND CERTAIN ELECTORS OF BEVISHAM MEANTIME the candidates raised kno... ... matter of derision. It happened that the gay and good-humoured young Lord Palmet, heir to the earldom of Elsea, walking up the High Street of Bevisha... ...is meditations. He thought less of Romfrey Castle than of his dogs and his devices for trapping vermin; his interest in birds and beasts and herbs, ‘w...

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...w. He sent over a pair of shawls, a white one for her and a black one with palm-leaves for her mother, and a pair of red scarfs, as winter wrappers, f... ...ed hers ten times more.” “By God, you are a good feller, sir,” was all Mr. Os-borne said. It had never struck him that the widow would feel any pain a... ...wn an alley of the garden as Lord Steyne’s barouche, blazing with heraldic devices, came whirling along the avenue, borne by the almost priceless hors...

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...y urging and pressing forward.” With a frequent use of such words and such devices, he soothed the fierceness of the barbarous people, and taught them... ...ormidable that ex- cited indignation; they were even more odious for their os- tentation than they were feared for their force. Their ships had gilded... ... and the stone with which it was paved still harder; yet it is said that a palm- tree shot itself up near the pedestal of this statue. In the city of ... ...tus consenting, Nealces blotted out Aristratus, and in his place painted a palm-tree, not daring to add anything else of his own inven- tion. The feet...

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... from two smooth laurel branches stripped The bark, and rubbed them in his palms;—on high Suddenly forth the burning vapour leaped And the divine chil... ..., becomes a link In the great chain of Nature. ‘Behold,’ the Fairy cried, ‘Palmyra’s ruined palaces!— _110 Beh... ...amadis cheei, alla de th’ ule T elethoosa phuei, earos d’ epigignetai ore. Os andron genee, e men phuei, e d’ apolegei. Iliad Z, line 146. 5. 58:— 5. ... ...icate peculiari- ties of imagination, and less capable of reduction to the os- tensible merits of the object. The state of society in which we exist i... ...ences of these inven- tions, were amused or irritated at the short-sighted devices of the newly-formed creature, and left him to experience the sad ef... ...tos dia seauton, me chesamenos kopidi mede tumpano tini mede pelekei alla, os lukoi kai arktoi kai leontes autoi osa esthiousi phoneuousin, anele degm...

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...ould stump him, and I don’t think it would have done so if he had not made os a mouth instead of a bone, in dealing with the ‘Wolf and the Lamb.’ He w... ...ly believed that his rejection was in consequence of his confusion between os, ossis, and os, oris, and was very sore about it, had gone with Allen an... ...85 Yonge “But can’t you stop that?” “My dear, nobody could think of Jock’s devices so as to stop them, who had not his own monkey brain. Who would hav... ...ing of everything being cold and dull, and talking about seas and islands, palm-trees, and coral caves, and humming birds, yes, and black slaves, and ... ...d to make an admiring inspection of the curi- 309 Yonge ous ornaments and devices; and Elvira, with her perfect fea- tures, rich complexion, dark blu...

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...e was not a common ‘mixer.’ He 12 Boswell’s Life of Johnson stooped to no devices for the sake of popular- ity. He pours only scorn upon the lack of ... ...nd of mysteri- ous awe, which made it necessary to have re- course to such devices. In our time it has ac- quired an unrestrained freedom, so that the... ...Dr. Joseph Warton, Mr. Malone, Lord Ossory, Lord Spencer, Lord Lucan, Lord Palmerston, Lord Eliot, Lord Macartney, Mr. Richard Burke junior, Sir Willi... ... and for- wards, and rubbing his left knee in the same direction, with the palm of his hand. In the in- tervals of articulating he made various sounds... ...out with him, and which is often looked at by others, might be censured as os- tentatious.’ Mr. Steevens is now possessed of the dial-plate inscribed ... ...aggeration; re- peating, with pauses and half-whistlings inter- jected, ‘Os homini sublime dedit,—caelumque tueri Jussit,—et erectos ad sidera—tolle... ... the enjoyment of wealth was, that of Jamaica Dawkins, who, going to visit Palmyra, and hear- ing that the way was infested by robbers, hired a troop ...

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...gned to the realms of forgetfulness. Banner after banner, with the various devices and coats of this ancient family and its connexions, followed each ... ...ch of unusual magnitude and age, as Judah is represented sitting under her palm-tree, with an air at once of majesty and of dejection. Her figure was ... ... friends and kins- folk, those had been carefully withdrawn so soon as the os- tentatious display of festivity , equally unnecessary and strangely tim... ... an air of serene patronage, to the hearty shake of Mr. Girder’s horn-hard palm. Upon this com- plete, and to Caleb most satisfactory, information he ...

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... slowly searching eye, “One, two, three. Why , here’ s three Js, and three Os, and three J-O, Joes in it, Pip!” I leaned over Joe, and, with the aid o... ...” said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought ... ...you and I, but to obey our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I.” As she looked at me in giving me the purse, I hoped th... ...hecked off each bridge in its turn, with the handle of his safe-key on the palm of his hand. “There’ s as many as six, you see, to choose from.” “I do... ...“Quite so, sir!” When the waiter had felt my fast cooling tea-pot with the palm of his hand, and had looked imploringly at me, and had gone out, Drumm...