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...at was it? About the war? A war that must needs be long and bloody, taking toll from castle and cot- tage, taking toll! … Rhetorical gusto! W as I dru... ...iumphantly amidst the universal ebb. To a heedless world the church towers tolled out two and then three. Clocks ticked and chimed every- where about ... ...ved. No man could find foothold on the face of the earth until he had paid toll and homage to one of them. They had practi- cally no relations and no ... ... viciousness, and the myriads of workers, noisily shod, streaming over the bridges in the gray cold light of dawn. Where is New York, the high city of...

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...castellated battlements, glittering minarets, frowning donjons, ponderous draw-bridges and armored knights, while tilting tournaments and furious enga... ...e ocean their winding sheet. Every storm claims its victims; every wind levies toll on human life and treasure. The power of man cannot curb the tempe... ...city is a certain noble building, wherein hangeth a very great bell, after the tolling whereof in the night no man must go out of his house until the ... ...introduced into Spain a style which has never since been abandoned. There were bridges, and buildings, and tunnels that exhibited the most splendid en... ...la. But when he reached the main causeway leading to the capital, he found the bridges still intact and the city apparently peaceful, though no one ca... ...had they been inactive, for under cover of the darkness they had destroyed the bridges which connected portions of the causeway, thus cutting off retr... ...antines, and co-operated with the land forces by attacking from the sides. The bridges over the causeways were obstructed, as before described, by for...

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...oming and go- ing but the crowd remaining, both on the Chobham and Horsell bridges. One or two adventurous souls, it was after- wards found, went into... ...he Thames and across the flats of Lambeth, cutting off all escape over the bridges in its sluggish advance. Another bank drove over Ealing, and surrou... ...saster blinded our minds. 145 H G Wells These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things—taken toll of our prehuman a... ... dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it...

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...their parts in them. “And now and again when things got too bad they would toll the city bell, and the Vigilance Committee turned out and hanged the s... ...th un-told abominations, and bid me watch the stream of traffic across the bridges. He then took me into a saloon, and while I drank made me note that...

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...right to cut off the enemy’s supplies from Richmond, preserve the railroad bridges across the two forks of the Pamunkey, and intercept the enemy’s ret... ...ccession of numbers of nearly 15,000 men; and if you succeed in saving the bridges you will secure a line of railroad for supplies in addition to the ... ... not do this almost as well as not while you are building the Chickahominy bridges? McDowell and Shields both say they can, and positively will, move ... ...rs are given for build- 147 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six ing bridges and repairing railroads. I am directed to add that the Secretary of... ...nd each of them, must have access to this Egypt of the West without paying toll at the crossing of any national boundary. Our national strife springs ... ...everal locomotives and a good deal of other property, and all the railroad bridges to within five miles of Richmond. A. LINCOLN. 275 The Writings of ...

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...e audacious should not complain. A mere trader ought not to grumble at the tolls levied by a mighty king. His mightiness was sometimes very over- whel... ...de, and take her out into the river, tending, shepherding her through open bridges, through dam-like gates between the flat pier-heads, with a bit of ...

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... of it was very Charles Dickens 9 misty and cold. There were no roads, no bridges, no streets, no houses that you would think de serving of the name... .... Charles Dickens 151 Then they caused the great bell of St. Paul’s to be tolled, for the purpose of rousing up the Lon don people, who armed themse... ...ool, which was so unpopular among the traders that it was called ‘The evil toll.’ But all would not do. The Barons, led by those two great Earls, de ... ... of the river look ing for a crossing, the French, who had broken all the bridges, moved up the right bank, watch ing them, and waiting to attack th... ...o take his life; and he was per suaded to give secret orders that, on the tolling of a great bell, they should be fallen upon by an overpowering forc... ...l cony by his mother to see the atrocious work begun. The moment the bell tolled, the murderers broke forth. During all that night and the two next d... ... filled with wild fancies. Sometimes, they thought they heard a great bell tolling, deep down in the earth under the Parliament House; sometimes, they... ...ention of passing into Wales; but the place swarmed with soldiers, and the bridges were guarded, and all the boats were made fast. So, after lying in ...

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... of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes, The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk heads, floats, stays against the sea; The city firem... ...s, Shapes of the two threaded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges... ...it churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey, With the tolling tolling bells’ perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, ... ...iage, the street, the factory, farm, the house room, lodging room, Labor and toll, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college, The student, boy... ...ard. This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee, An unceasing death bell tolls there. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 476 3 Features of my equals ... ... within their breasts, their brains, the sad reverberations,) The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing, Those heart beat... ...ourts, jury and judge, the accused in the box, Contestants, battles, crowds, bridges, wharves, Now and then mark’d faces of sorrow or joy, (I could pi...

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...French soldiers by worn- out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days. Toll wrote a disposition: “The first column will march to so and so,” etc. ... ...ch by the arrangements it made for cross- ing as by what took place at the bridges. When the bridges broke down, unarmed soldiers, people from Moscow ... ...econstructed and its real strength removed and transferred to the Emperor. Toll, Konovnitsyn, and Ermolov received fresh appoint- ments. Everyone spok...

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...nt, added two feet to the width of the bridge, under the impres- sion that bridges were cut out of paper, and so brought to ruin at least half an acre... ...tonework sunk under water, as the Quetta was sunk. I like sus-suspen-sheen bridges that fly from bank to bank, with one big step, like a gang-plank. T... ...me they change their faiths and are very wise. Ho! ho! I am the builder of bridges, indeed—bridges between this and that, and each bridge leads surely... ... change a little the names of their Gods. I shall lead the builders of the bridges as of old; Shiv shall be worshipped in the schools by such as doubt... ...cPhee,’ says the head-clerk. ‘There’s engines, an’ rollin’ stock, an’ iron bridgesd’ ye know what freights are noo? an’ pianos, an’ millinery, an’ fan... ...at the carriage from the stone wall above the shaven lawns. The house took toll of him with due regard to precedence—first the mother; then the father...

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...nd unprofitable motions of man, then too surely, about this hour, began to toll the funeral knell of my earthly happiness—its final hour had sounded. ... ...n eagle what was indispensable. Some little money perhaps to pay the first toll-bar of life: so, out of four shil- lings in Aunty’s purse, she took on... ...ntral Asia, intersected continually by rapid rivers, rarely furnished with bridges, and of which the fords were known only to those who might think it... ...l armies was pre- cisely the greatest at the outset. Now, from the want of bridges, or sufficient river craft for transporting so vast a body of men, ... ...iciently rapid with the tribes on the west of the Wolga, in the absence of bridges, unless by a natural bridge of ice. For this one advantage the Kalm... ...onstant preoccupation of all the defensible positions, mountain passes, or bridges. Sometimes, again, wearied out with this mode of suffering, they to... ...corpse was carried by torch-light, the bells of every church in Königsberg toll- ing, to the Cathedral which was lit up by innumerable wax- lights. A ...

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... will be driven through the woods of Cherry Mount, passing, I fear without toll of custom, the house of my excellent friend Mr. Plaistead, who keeps a... ...his way through the mud, and scramble over the timber, and cross the plank bridges which traverse the streams of the saw-mills, and thus take himself ... ...es down the river, making a walk or drive of four miles necessary, and the toll for passing is four shillings, or a dollar, in a carriage, and one shi... ...ere they lie, heaped up in some places, and con- structing themselves into bridges in others, till the fresh- ets of the spring carry them off. The ti...

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...He feinted. Quick as lightning, he landed a bolt on Ben’s jib, just at the toll-bar of the bridge, between the eyes, and was off, out of reach, elasti... ...nal, which had a reputation to maintain, would be over one or other of the bridges crossing the Thames first. Mallard had been struck by the neat litt...

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...g view is obtained down upon the town and the two rivers and the different bridges, from a height immediately above them. I was never more in love wit... ...e I was there eight men were con- demned to be shot for destroying railway bridges. “But will they be shot?” I asked of one of the officers. “Oh, yes.... ...on- tributes nothing to the poor, runs its mails on turnpike roads free of toll, and gives receipts on unstamped paper. With us no payment is in truth...

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...is troops pouring out of the Vilkavisski forest and flowing over the three bridges thrown across the river. The troops, knowing of the Emperor’s prese... ...est that had concealed them and, separating, flowed on and on by the three bridges to the other side. “Now we’ll go into action. Oh, when he takes it ... ... was brought to Napoleon. He mounted it and rode at a gallop to one of the bridges over the Niemen, deafened con- tinually by incessant and rapturous ... ...rom the time he joined the army. He rode across one of the swaying pontoon bridges to the farther side, turned sharply to the left, and galloped in th... ...own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly. Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at ... ...er than the western, the Polish, provinces. Prince Andrew found Barclay de Tolly, to whom he had been assigned, on the bank of the Drissa. As there wa... ...illages on both sides of the river, over a radius of six miles. Barclay de Tolly was quartered nearly three miles from the Emperor. He re- ceived Bolk... ...orces had been divided into three armies. First, the army under Barclay de Tolly, secondly, the army under Bagration, and thirdly, the one commanded b... ...peace. The fifth party consisted of those who were adherents of Barclay de Tolly, not so much as a man but as minister of war and commander in chief. ...

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...ook of your contempt. I go not your way, ye despisers of the body! Ye are no bridges for me to the Superman!— Thus spake Zarathustra. V. JOYS AND PASS... ...easeth—pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?— Thus spake Zarathustra. XII. THE FLIES IN THE M... ...! What would be my love to the Superman, if I spake otherwise? On a thousand bridges and piers shall they throng to the future, and always shall there... ...so call those who have ever to wait,— they are repugnant to my taste—all the toll-gatherers and traders, and kings, and other landkeepers and shop- ke... ...er the stream! “Over the stream all is stable, all the values of things, the bridges and bearings, all ‘good’ and ‘evil’: these are all stable!”— Come... ...that there are words and tones; are not words and tones rainbows and seeming bridges ‘twixt the eternally separated? To each soul belongeth another wo...

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...ought in another bench and put it beside the table. Ermolov, Kaysarov, and Toll, who had just arrived, sat down on this bench. In the foremost place, ... ... bench. In the foremost place, immediately under the icons, sat Barclay de Tolly, his high forehead merging into his bald crown. He had a St. George’s... ...hose exploits of antique valor,” he went on rapidly. “Gen- eral Barclay de Tolly risked his life everywhere at the head of the troops, I can assure yo... ...ing the movement of the troops took place at the Stone, Moskva, and Y auza bridges. While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the ... ...s when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and conges... ...ers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealth- ily and silently past the church of V asili th...

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...!” CHAPTER VI KUTUZOV FELL BACK TOW ARD V IENNA, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October ... ...le Rostov was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the Emperor at once rode ... ..., wishing to rest and feeling unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. Rostov from a distance saw with envy and remorse ... ...ained beside him. Rostov from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently we... ...peror, evidently weeping, cov- ered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. “And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostov, and hard... ... do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bona... ...a water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of tidine... ...is troops pouring out of the Vilkavisski forest and flowing over the three bridges thrown across the river. The troops, knowing of the Emperor’s prese... ...own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly. Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at ...

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...negotiations because he felt himself to be personally insulted. Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfi... ...ome of them attribute to Pfuel, others to a certain Frenchman, oth- ers to Toll, and others again to Alexander himself-pointing to notes, projects, an... ... became still more acute and we withdrew still farther, because Barclay de Tolly was an unpopular foreigner disliked by Bagration (who would come his ... ...brave armies may feel as- sured of victory.” (Instructions from Barclay de Tolly to Baron Asch, the civil governor of Smolensk, 1812.) People were anx... ... word in it to the best of his ability.) I expect the Minister [Barclay de Tolly] has already reported the abandonment of Smolensk to the enemy. It is... ...e right wing. The vice-King will occupy the village and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand’s and Gibrard’s divisions,... ...s: The vice-King will occupy the village (Borodino) and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand’s and Gdrard’s divisions (...

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... mobilised, and as we came through Austrian Silesia we had noticed all the bridges being guarded by soldiers. “Austria will back down,” was the opinio... ...ore. As long as men will travel on the water, the sea-gods will take their toll. They will catch good seamen napping, or confuse their judgment by art...

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...erybody’s marks upon them, and sometimes the marks of their having served as bridges, strewn along the road. We crossed the Sunkhaze, a summery Indian... ...of frames of logs filled with stones, to break the ice. 4 Here every log pays toll as it passes through the sluices. We filed into the rude logger’s cam...

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...increased. Saudi pressures on the Bin Ladin family also probably took some toll. In any case, Bin Ladin found it necessary both to cut back his spendi... ...cy vehicles to access the WTC.The NYPD and PAPD coordinated the closing of bridges and tunnels into Manhattan. 72 PAPD Initial Response The Port Autho... ...x. Within minutes of impact, Port Authority police officers from the PATH, bridges, tunnels, and airport commands began responding to the WTC.The PAPD... ... concern with FBI sloppiness in its FISA applications also began to take a toll: the court began designating itself as the gatekeeper for the shar- in... ...Lessons Learned from the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon”). 192. For the death toll, see FBI report, list of Pentagon victims, undated. For patient care a...