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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... 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...

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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 ...