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...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 flesh — when a mail coach guard shall never even have seen a horse — when stations shall have superseded stables, and corn shall have given place t...

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...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...

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...best only to print that which appeared to have the fullest or the clearest expression. In general, the story is best told in letters to the home party... ... best told in letters to the home party; while thoughts are generally best expressed in the correspondence with Sir John Taylor Coleridge, to whom the... ...cations are of course a different thing. My desire has been to give enough expression of Bishop Patteson’s opinions upon Church and State affairs, to ... ...ny have nobly carried out, of unselfish duty and devotion in their several stations. Balliol had, under the mastership of Dr. Jenkyns, attained pre-em... ...go on burning. To me he talked much of his home. He used to walk beside my pony, and tell me about “his dear father”—how lovingly his voice used to li... ...yet. A good scamper with Joan on the East Hill, or a drive with Fan in the pony car- riage along a lane full of primroses and violets would be pleas- ... ... he is pledged of his own act to do; and that at home the ‘parson- age and pony-carriage’ delusion practically makes men for- get this. I forget it as... ...mon group, are now yielding up scholars and affording openings for Mission stations, though this indeed is great matter for thankfulness; but there is... ...tate when they ought to be ordained; 3rd, we are about to start (D.V.) new stations at Ambrym, Leper’s Island, and Savo; 4th, the school is so large t...

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...he one at Shagton; and we would make the church beautiful, and get another pony or two, to ride with Charlie.” “Yes, and have a garden with a hothouse... ... see the top of it? And there is a whole pile of books. And I would draw a pony, only I never can nicely; but look here,” Kate went on drawing as she ... ...h me there; and you shall have lots of big books, Papa; and we will have a pony-car- riage for Mary, and ponies for Sylvia and Charlie and me, and—” K... ...from her tables. After more vain attempts at chatter, and various stops at stations, Mr. W ardour bought a story-book for her; and thus brought her to... ...as she to know that this only meant that he had once had the misfortune to express his disapproval of the high- backed long-legged school-room chairs ... ...t always read any book on the table ordered her never to touch any without express permission. Sometimes the aunts worked; sometimes Lady Barbara play...

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... the like. Mrs. Egremont lighted up a little and began telling some of the expressions of delight she had heard, and in the midst, Nuttie, waking from... .... Perhaps he hastened his work with a hope in his heart which he durst not express, but the agitation on the usually placid face forbade him to entert... ...k Egremont’s communi- cation will be received, or whether any wish will be expressed for your mother’s rejoining your father. In such a case the terms... ...eed, a box for the Miss Egremonts had been deposited by the Canon from the pony-carriage an hour ago, and was already in the dressing-room; but Miss R... ...d. Then he fixed his hopes on a solitary drive with his father back in the pony carriage, but he found himself told off to take that home, and had to ... ...bella sunshade, and blazon it, considerably vulgarised, in all the railway stations, and magazines.’ ‘I know! I had the misfortune to see it in the st... ...l as ever to-morrow. He went and sat by the cot, and talked merrily of the pony that Alwyn was to ride, and the yachting they would have in the summer...

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...ugh. What I had lost for the moment was the sense of the proper formula of expression, the only for- mula that would suit. This, of course, weakened m... ...rested him short, attentive, and with a sudden change to amiability in the expression of his face. “Yes, sir,” he said, bending his ear toward the ope... ... the eyes, clung to the cheek bones. The eyes gave the face its remarkable expression. The eyebrows, darker than the hair, pencilled a straight line b... ...spoke quietly. “I am going forward now, sir, with the tindal. We’re all at stations.” “Aye, Mr. Shaw. Very good. Mind they don’t board you—but I can h... ...p here. Come up,” called Lingard, impa- tiently. The Malays had left their stations and stood clus- tered by the mainmast in a silent group. Not a wor... ...ut trustworthiness about it, and she reminded one of a surefooted mountain-pony carrying over diffi- cult ground a rider much bigger than himself. Was... ...ment. Later Tengga’s houses were set on fire and Belarab, mounting a fiery pony, issued forth to make a triumphal progress sur- rounded by a great cro...

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...acting rightly by yourself.’ And he gazed at her with a piteous, perplexed expression. ‘Let me call mamma,’ said Isabel. ‘As you will, my dear, but ca... ... and sympathized, and answered questions, she volunteered no opinions, ahe expressed no wishes, she would not come to see. Poor Louis was often mortif... ...r, his eyes wistfully bent on her, the more carefully did she restrain all expression of hope of seeing him to-morrow, lest she should be exacting and... ...ourhood of mountains; the fresh September breeze was laden with smoke, and stations stood thick upon the line. As the train dashed up to one of these,... ...ing grand parties, and yet he was angry with the expense of my poor little pony-car- riage. I don’t think he always quite knew what he was about; and ... ...lace called Guallaval seemed to be the most squalid and forlorn of all the stations—outside, an atmosphere of mosquitoes; inside, an atmosphere of bra...

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...II R elieved of Babbitt’s bumbling and the soft grunts with which his wife expressed the sympathy she was too experienced to feel and much too experi-... ...th’s charities and corrections; and as to the “vice districts” he brightly expressed it, “Those are things that no decent man monkeys with. Besides, s... ...an craning around at his desk in the dark al- cove, Stanley Graff sullenly expressionless—as a parvenu before the bleak propriety of his butler. He ha... ...had arranged. Indefatigably he viewed water-reservoirs, suburban trol- ley-stations, and tanneries. He devoured the statistics which were given to him... ...elplessly. Every truck that made its way from the factories to the freight-stations was guarded by a policeman, trying to look stoical beside the scab... ...Mrs. Opal Emerson Mudge fell somewhat short of a prophetic aspect. She was pony-built and plump, with the face of a haughty Pekingese, a button of a n...

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...n, for all future times and ages, removed from the noses of paupers by the express order of the board, in council assembled: solemnly given and pronou... ...s regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too pal pable to be mistaken, even by a hal... ...he other mag istrate: laying aside the paper, and leaning forward with an expression of interest. ‘Now, boy, tell us what’s the matter: don’t be afra... ...refully, upstairs to Mr. Giles’s room; and that Brittles was to saddle the pony and betake himself instantly to Chertsey: from which place, he was to ... ... at the windows, seeing those upon the bridges pouring back, quitted their stations, and running into the street, joined the concourse that now throng...

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...n to the bottle than the trencher. His thin white beard gave a threatening expression to his profile by the stiffness of its short bristles. The eyes,... ...man; but he was reassured by his artless attitude and the perfectly stupid expression of his face. “In my young days we had lots of otters,” whispered... ...very Attic; it consists in speaking out his mind and giving it a grotesque expression. We find the same thing in a drawing-room. Delicacy of wit takes... ...he difficulties in which the general would soon be involved, jumped on his pony after leaving the room where the quarrel took place, and galloped to S... ...imber discovered by Jean Rouvet in 1549, which required certain convenient stations to intercept it, was the making of Ville-aux-Fayes, which, up to t...

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... her best to present the hero of her blood an agreeable change; and he too expressed a patriotic satisfaction on hearing that the faces most admired b... ... General.’ ‘I do. Who wouldn’t?’ said he frankly. ‘She crossed the Channel expressly to dance here tonight at the public Ball in honour of you.’ ‘Wher... .... She must choose at home for a perfect harmonious partner.’ Lady Dunstane expressed her opinion that her couple danced excellently together. ‘It’d be... ...m town, and had been to Copsley, Lady Dunstane in- vited him to follow the pony-carriage thither, where he was 171 George Meredith fed and refreshed ... ...tand as others do, and we will for the future be warned to avoid the dizzy stations which cry for resources beyond a common equilibrium, and where a s...

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...c wallet. The simile must be accepted in its might, for no lesser one will express the scornfulness toward men displayed by this strikingly well-favou... ...essons in demeanour from Cornelia, and in horseman- ship from Wilfrid. She expressed no gratitude for kindnesses or wonder at the change in her fortun... ...gallant cornet’s critical appreciation of this impressive announcement was expressed in a spiral ebullition of smoke from his mouth. “He is such a pro... ..., papa.’ When I had spoken, I could scarcely help laughing. He went like a pony that is being broken in, crying, I don’t know how many times, ‘Why? Wh... ...ffinch and the linnet flitted off the grey orchard twigs, singing from new stations; and the bee seemed to come questioning the silence of the woods a...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...eal! said I? no, no, no, not steal, not steal. Let me withdraw that odious expression. I took, and on my manly head I set, the royal crown of Paflagon... ... a young man in armour, with fair hair and the loveliest blue eyes, and an expression at once melancholy and interesting. ‘Dear Signor Lorenzo, who is... ...n to be a lady’s-maid again. But we must all do our duty in our respective stations, so the Queen re- signed herself to perform hers. We have said how... ...as out of the Paflagonian dominions before two o’clock; and I dare say the express that was sent after Prince Giglio did not ride very quick, for many... ...g the time from His Royal Highness. And now his trunk opened with a sudden pony, and out there came three ostrich feathers in a gold crown, surroundin... ... their triumphal progress towards Giglio’s capital— change her wand into a pony, and travel by their Majesties’ side, giving them the very best advice... ... Giglio’s testy observations, she had fallen back, and was trotting on her pony now, by Master Bulbo’s side, who rode a donkey, and made himself gener...

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...ill hear of them, for that is the quality of his type. He gets no personal expression in this book, the Voice is always that other’s, but you gather m... ...r Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language biological to such heights of expressive clearness as to be tri- umphantly and invincibly unreadable. (Wh... ...e days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst th... ...commu- nications will all be managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decide... ...thousands or millions of units of energy at one or other of the generating stations. Now the problems of economic theory will have under- 52 A Modern... ...y of at- tendants would be at work upon this index day and night. From sub-stations constantly engaged in checking back thumb-marks and numbers, an in... ...mals. After a time I am told to specialise in a comical little Roman-nosed pony; but several of the better paid carvers work up caricature images of e...

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...d if the analysis is par- tially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Fearful, however, of losing thi... ...same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion. Eliza and Georgiana, evidentl... ...rld held a contrary opinion: I was silent. Mrs. Reed answered for me by an expressive shake of the head, adding soon, “Perhaps the less said on that s... ...at fed on the mast in the wood. When we got back, it was after moonrise: a pony, which we knew to be the surgeon’s, was standing at the garden door. M... ... Louisa Eshton, 185 Charlotte Brontë dressed also in white, took up their stations behind them. A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was ea... ...ou very well: you used to give me a ride sometimes on Miss Georgiana’s bay pony. And how is Bessie? You are married to Bessie?” “Yes, Miss: my wife is... ... in the course of her morning ride. She would canter up to the door on her pony, followed by a mounted livery servant. Anything more ex- quisite than ...