...a soapy enema. The fourth patient, who had waited to the last, was Mary Brown’s husband eager to express his gratitude to Helen on behalf of his you... ...jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages and British ‘stations’, small enclaves of British residents. At... ... an outsize turban sitting on his horse drawn cart, his thin frame matching the equally emaciated pony in the shafts. Even after this comparatively ... ...en requested a horse. One of the tall, bearded Sikh soldiers brought her a sturdy, little, hill pony and Helen whipped off her cumbersome riding sk... ...his little fellow is as sure footed as a mountain goat,’ said Helen, leaning forward to tweak the pony’s ear. ‘You never fail to surprise me, Helen ... ...d up her face to within a few inches of his own, his dark eyes glinting with a quizzical, teasing expression. Helen felt her cheeks flush again and ... ...ce French, before she sailed from England. The Brigadier and Lady Agnes arrived early. ‘With the express intention of inspecting the wedding presen... ...th the Nawab to inspect the Company’s plans to build a railway to connect Mirapore to other hill stations in British India. She knew that Gavin had...

...rsome supply train slowed its progress. Riding bareback on range-bred, pony-size mounts, the Mongols overwhelmed their foes in well-coordinated a... ...nown as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stre... ...as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stressing... ...o make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and ... ... They could add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly without an abacus. Expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols—each of which ... ... may have been admonished to ―mind your p’s and q’s.‖ Some attribute this expression to a barkeeper‘s pints and quarts, but to printers, the warning ... ...rt. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries first targeted radio stations because they were the primary source of information for the vast ...

...rsome supply train slowed its progress. Riding bareback on range-bred, pony-size mounts, the Mongols overwhelmed their foes in well-coordinated a... ...nown as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stress... ...as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition and stressing t... ...o make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and ... ... They could add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly without an abacus. Expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols—each of which ... ... may have been admonished to ―mind your p’s and q’s.‖ Some attribute this expression to a barkeeper‘s pints and quarts, but to printers, the warning ... ...sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries first targeted radio stations because they were the primary source of information for the vast ...

...u that they are not. Asians love to say things in subtext mode, which is an expression for saying one thing and meaning something entirely different... ...ederal Reserve, a private banking institution that is as federal as Federal Express. Anyway, you can't pay off debt with more debt so therefore, thi... ... about my future I — mean, their future plan for medical school. My parents express grave concern about the — tuition costs, while Uncle explains th... ...turns off the radio for the second time, nothing good playing on any of the stations thankfully. So Johnson, did you have fun tonight? Emilie inquire... ... Gabriel asks, with a smile bigger than a birthday girl given her first “ ” pony. Let's just say she won't be walking for a while, I brag with intrep...

...n the rough and uneven wooden strips of the rotting platforms of the train stations of all these small towns, he had listened to sounds. Then a game o... ...ord of time or mere sentient essences of the present could be measured or expressed. Ideas shifted around in his head like loose tectonic plates. The... ...ced a mere smile which altered further into a wry, contorted, and ungainly expression that expressed little beyond the awkward fidgetiness of wanting ... ...through the orifices of his eyes to obstruct memory--a morning with shanty stations as gateways to shanty towns, rice fields and banana orchards with ... ...ch with slightly different circumstances, and each with slightly different expressions. "I was a sensation until I lost interest in beating and stirri... ...im), in forests far from the city, against walls of women's toilets in gas stations, in discotheque parking lots, in hotel rooms, empty upper staircas... ...dinner in silence, mutely conveying that most indifferent of yeses to him, pony tail nodding indifferently against the nape of her neck in affirmation...

...body parked in the back alley, cutting through.” She finger-combed her hair into a ponytail and flipped the ponytail into a knot. “They’ll blame me... ...such as old stuff going back decades?” “Yes,” he answered, dragging the word out to express that while this may be true, it wasn’t without its cavea... ...tell you that you had to go on trial this morning?” For the first time, Donald’s expression became confident. “No, sir. He asked me if I wanted ... ...s than a turnip.” Olin was certainly right about that. She looked at his blank expression, and said, “Whatever happened to him yesterday mornin... ... his head. “Still you got to know that papers like The Roston Tabloid — and radio stations that don’t belong to Clay Hartwell – they don’t make su... ...get on with it. Did Mather give you the third degree?” Hannah pulled at her long ponytail, and changed expressions, now looking full of exasperati... ...Kate’s all right. She’s one of us.” “Yeah, sure.” He reached back and stroked his ponytail and returned his attention to the pit. “She's getting...

...body trembled in continuum through bits of the hours with stolid, cadaverous expressions throughout the ordeal. He assumed his parents had also behave... ...as gaining equilibrium when coming up from the punches or finding a positive expression of himself and the world, and even a pride in both, within adv... ... fact that she seemed to gain comfort from his presence even though his face expressed the awkwardness of having her there. He missed childhood. Surel... ...ll of the cashiers, grocery stockmen, and other personnel were dead at their stations. Gabriele was around the age of five. She hid her face in Peggy... ...ctions, the choping of meat at a butcher's shop, or the static of television stations intruding into each other; and the recent and recurrent memory o... ... hands as they went toward the USA border. He saw a gray headed lady with a pony tail sitting behind a table of novelties and an Anglo-Saxon Navy off...

...present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judgin... ...ir slab, or perch, of which there were two within; and looked, without any expression of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board w... ...pears on the paddle box with his speaking trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers ... ...nd all appalling and horrible in the last degree, is nothing. Words cannot express it. Thoughts cannot convey it. Only a dream can call it up again, i... ...rted back again by magic. American Notes – Dickens 69 The train calls at stations in the woods, where the wild impossibility of anybody having the s... ... to ask the question, but I should think it must have been of about half a pony power. Mr. Paap, the celebrated Dwarf, might have lived and died hap ... ...he last degree. There is no look of decent comfort anywhere. The miserable stations by the railway side, the great wild wood yards, whence the engine ...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for the...

...fog at that time of the year, and who had been engaged by Nicholas Tulrumble expressly for the occa sion. There was the horse, whisking his tail abou... ... Twigger had plenty of time to de nounce Nicholas Tulrumble to his face: to express her opin ion that he was a decided monster; and to intimate that... ... communications received from our able, talented, and graphic correspondent, expressly sent down for the purpose, who has immortalized us, himself, Mu... ...srs. Dull and Dummy. ‘A paper was read by the secretary descriptive of a bay pony with one eye, which had been seen by the author stand ing in a butc... ...h expedition he had beheld the extraordinary appearance above described. The pony had one distinct eye, and it had been pointed out to him by his frie... ...aurious. It certainly did occur to him that there was no case on record of a pony with one clearly defined and distinct organ of vision, winking and ... ... flesh — when a mail coach guard shall never even have seen a horse — when stations shall have superseded stables, and corn shall have given place t...

...s reply which caused me to look at the little creature with an involuntary expression of surprise; for I wondered what kind of errand it might be that... ...be impossible for any man, I care not what his form of speech might be, to express more affection than the dealer in curiosities did, in these four wo... ... mouth, very red cheeks, a turned up nose, and certainly the most comical expression of face I ever saw. He stopped short at the door on seeing a str... ...ling four wheeled chaise’ drawn by a little obstinate looking rough coated pony, and driven by a little fat placid faced old gentleman. Beside the lit... ...ld gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace and doing exactly as he pleased with ... ...whole concern. If the old gentleman remonstrated by shaking the reins, the pony replied by shaking his head. It was plain that the utmost the pony wou... ..., for they were better treated; free to come and go, and regarded in their stations with much more respect. The teachers were infinitely superior, for...

...But the veriest trifle, interpreted by the spirit in which I offer it, may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction b... ...y, had done nothing, apparently, to lower the tone of his hap- piness. The expression of this happiness was noiseless and unobtrusive; no marks were t... ...rd Massey was in figure shortish, but broad and stout, and wore an amiable expression of face. That I could execute Lady Carbery’s commission, I felt ... ...imself with instructing a young gentleman, aged about fifteen, to take his pony and ride over to a distant cathedral town, which was honored by the ab... ...as! fifty-nine), who must long since have sown his wild oats; that unhappy pony of eighteen (now, alas! sixty-two, if living; ah! vener- able pony, th... ... masonry. Higher by far than the Mogul gifts of mile-stones, or travelling stations, or even roads and tanks, were the gifts of security, of peace, of... ...they expect; and the result is what I represent—that people in the highest stations, and such as bring them continually into contact with inferiors, a... ... hatred to T urkish insolence was not merely maintained in their own local stations,* but also propagated thence with activity to every part of Greec...

... his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or... ...d heard might mean the extermination of our invaders from Mars. I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death. It ... ...at these monsters must be sluggish: “crawling,” “creeping painfully”— such expressions occurred in almost all the earlier reports. None of the telegra... ... able telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased. My brother could get very lit... ...almost invariably closed, between the South- Eastern and the South-Western stations, and the passage of carriage trucks bearing huge guns and carriage... ...sing swiftly to a torrent, lash- ing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations, banked up into a horrible struggle about the shipping in the Tham... ... the corner, saw a couple of men struggling to drag them out of the little pony-chaise in which they had been driving, while a third with difficulty h... ...h they had been driving, while a third with difficulty held the frightened pony’s head. One of the ladies, a short woman dressed in white, was simply ... ...went back to where the lady in white struggled to hold back the frightened pony. The robbers had evidently had enough of it. When my brother looked ag...

... retiring, yet including so much constancy and bravery of spirit, seemed all expressed to him in the contrast between her quiet household figure and t... ...a sufficiently plump and cheerful face, though it was twisted up into an odd expression of tightness that made it comical. But, the ex traordinary ho... ...or had a streaked face like a winter pippin, with here and there a dimple to express the peckings of the birds, and a very little bit of pigtail behin... ...side as if a joyful beacon had been lighted up, and answered from a thousand stations. How beautiful the landscape kindling in the light, and that lux... ..., on any account.’ ‘No,’ retorted Clemency. ‘Of course not. Then there’s the pony he fetched eight pound two; and that an’t bad, is it?’ ‘It’s very...

...T NEGATIVELY. No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of b... ...e graves for four was lying open and ready, here, in the churchyard. So much of the scanty space was already de- voted to the wrecked people, that the... ...ion for the bereaved; but laid no stress upon their own hard share in those weary weeks, except as it had attached many people to them as friends, and... ...this Theatre was fresh, cool, and wholesome. To help towards this end, very sensible precautions had been used, ingeniously combining the experience o... ... to your mind, a picture of the refreshment-table at that ter- minus. The conventional shabby evening-party supper— accepted as the model for all term... ...ly cut from some roadside wood, are not eminently prepossessing, but are much less objectionable. There is a tramp-fellowship among them. They pick on... ...f which the case admitted. As it is all one to teeto- talers whether you take half a pint of beer or half a gallon, so it was all one here whether the...

...erately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some thin... ...But the veriest trifle, interpreted by the spirit in which I offer it, may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction b... ...nd, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in papers written by myself than any w... ...on that account he rode on horseback. Generally it was a fierce moun- tain pony that he rode; and it was worth while to cultivate the pony’s acquainta... ...brother’s suggestion. He had the advantage of a slight descent: the wicked pony went down “with a will;” his echoing hoofs drew the general gaze upon ... ...osts in the neighborhood of Killala, and could be descried from el- evated stations in that town. Stories travelled simultaneously to Killala, every h... ...ult at all. The spectacle reminded me of a groom attempting to catch a coy pony by holding out a sieve containing, or pretending to contain, a bribe o... ...r public exhibition, she made us both fully sensible of the very equitable stations which she assigned to us in her regard. She was neither very brill...

...England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some things have sufficiently accomplished their purpose when they have met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it ...

... took the pettings seriously , and fretted over women not worth saddling a pony to call upon. He found his new free life in India very good. It does l... ...n; but as soon as we got to the dusty road across the plains, he made that pony fly. A country-bred can do nearly anything at a pinch. W e covered the... ... feel easy.” This uneasiness spread itself to me, and I helped to beat the pony. 18 Plain Tales from the Hills When we came to the Canal Engineer’s R... ...of us sang. You must not laugh at this. Our amuse- ments in out-of-the-way Stations are very few indeed. Then we talked in groups or together, lying u... ...ter handcuffed him securely. As soon as the mail-bag was slipped, he began expressing his opin- ions, and the head-constable said:— “Without doubt thi... ... that the cut on his forehead had given him. He really laid himself out to express what was in his mind. When he had quite finished and his throat was... ...kote Branch Bank.” You might play polo with him one afternoon and hear him express his opinions when a man crossed; and you might call on him next mor...

...ce their Alma Mater could bestow, and to be on the point of assuming their stations in the world. There were, it is true, exceptions to this general d... ...ow, in this rich sunlight. Come, Ellen,— one light touch of the whip,—your pony is as fresh as when we started.” On reaching the summit of the hill, a... ...paleness, produced by study and confine- ment, could not deprive them. The expression of his coun- tenance was not a melancholy one: on the contrary, ... ... and, from the resemblance of their features, appearing to be sisters. The expression of their countenances, however, was very different. One, evident... ...allow look of long and wasting illness; and there was an un- steadiness of expression about her eyes, that immediately struck the observer. Yet her fa...

...ion of a list, in which Invernahyle (as the good old gentleman was wont to express it) appeared ‘marked with the sign of the beast!’ as a subject unfi... ...uld carry as little weight as possible. Painters talk of the difficulty of expressing the existence of compound passions in the same features at the s... ... resentment; and had Lawyer Clippurse, for whom his groom was dis- patched express, arrived but an hour earlier, he might have had the benefit of draw... ...umstance. Hence, when he waddled across the court to and from his old grey pony, he somewhat re- sembled a turnspit walking upon its hind legs. The no... ...s patron, might terminate partly at his own, had mounted his spavined grey pony, and, between gaiety of heart, and alarm for being hooked into a recko... ...t, as it was called, where he beheld Bailie Macwheeble cantering his white pony down the av- enue with all the speed it could muster. He had arrived, ... ... of a lover, who seemed fitted so well to fill a high place in the highest stations of soci- ety. Certainly she had hitherto accounted among the incur... ...ty of the day, and having disposed those under his command in their proper stations, sought the Chieftain of Glennaquoich and his friend Edward Waverl... ... basin, but all the other Bears whatsoever, were replaced on their several stations, and re- newed or repaired with so much care, that they bore no to...

... very pretty than handsome, but improved into classicality by the acquired expression of her fashionable state. Her figure is elegant and has the effe... ...s eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer like. It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of th... ...ak, though I tried. “Mr. Jarndyce,” he went on, “makes no condition beyond expressing his expectation that our young friend will not at any time remov... ...Arms, or may even beguile the time by improving (perhaps cor rupting) the pony in the loose box in the corner. So the mastiff, dozing in his kennel i... ... walk by the help of a thick stick—and es corted her out of church to the pony carriage in which they had come. The servants then dispersed, and so d... ...et leaves and the falling rain. As we sat there, silently, we saw a little pony phaeton coming towards us at a merry pace. “The messenger is coming ba... ...d themselves; and from that, to their educating other people out of their stations, and so obliterating the landmarks, and opening the floodgates, an...

... Not supercilious. Mouth Smiling. Visage Beaming. General Expression Extremely agreeable. CHAPTER I GOING THROUGH FRANCE ON A FINE... .... Her action was violent in the extreme. She never spoke, without stopping expressly for the purpose. She stamped her feet, clutched us by the arms, f... ..., as there is nothing else of a public nature at which they are allowed to express the least disapprobation, perhaps they are resolved to make the mos... ... wreck found drifting on the sea; a strange flag hoisted in its honourable stations, and strangers standing at its helm. A splendid barge in which its... .... As you toil and clamber up one of these steep gorges (hav ing left your pony soddening his girths in water, a mile or 95 Charles Dickens two lower... ...of Romulus, 108 Pictures from Italy where the course of the chariots, the stations of the judges, competitors, and spectators, are yet as plainly to ... ...eaven!) of no age at all, flashed picturesque scowls about them from their stations in the throng. One gentleman (connected with the fine arts, I pres...