Searched over 7.2 Billion pages in 0.47 seconds
Please wait while the eBook Finder searches for your request. Searching through the full text of 2,850,000 books. Full Text searches may take up to 1 min.
... are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trubner, or ... ...ss the Samoan chief, if he be popular, wields a great influence; but it is limited. Impor- tant matters are debated in a fono, or native parliament, w... ...ith some concourse of affairs, policemen and idlers hanging by, a man at a bank- counter overhauling manifests, perhaps a trial proceeding in the fron... ...al in the island of Upolu. When its founder, John Cae- sar Godeffroy, went bankrupt over Russian paper and Westphalian iron, his most considerable ass... ...it. They figure but as the three ruffi- ans of the elder play-wrights. The United States have the cleanest hands, and even theirs are not immaculate. ... ...t Malietoa,” said Mataafa “but try to bring about a compromise, and form a united government.” “Very well,” said Tamasese, “leave it to me, and I will... ...aking more expedition than the messengers, passed early behind Apia to the banks of the Vaisingano. As he passed, he de- tached a messenger to Mataafa... ...e continuous. And it kept continuously growing. The sphere of Brandeis was limited to Mulinuu and the north central quarters of Upolu – practically wh... ... of humanity I hereby respectfully and solemnly protest in the name of the United States of America and of the civilised world in general against the ...
... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ...e may sleep in Him as our hope is this our sister doth, and may be finally united with her in Heaven. Yesterday was a day of great trial to us all: I ... ...ollege: ‘He was by common consent one of the best, if not the best, of the cricketers of the school. The second year of his appearance at Lord’s Crick... ... &c. How I remember every inch of the dear old places! Better than the mud banks at Felixstowe, are they not, Clara? I shall keep always the scrap fro... ...’ ‘Merton, Shrove T uesday. ‘My dearest Joan and Fan,—How we must all have united this morning in pouring out our thanks to God for His great mercy! Y... ...third fringe round the north-eastern curve of Australia, the New Hebrides, Banks Islands, and Solomon Isles, were almost entirely open ground, with th... ...at an harbour can be for perfect beauty of earth, air, and sea, for wooded banks and rocky heights, and fine shipping and handsome buildings, and all ... ... Nengonese at that time, as compared with what it was afterwards, was very limited, and his vocabulary a small one from which to choose his expression... ...e ancient Church had its “selection of fundamentals”— a kind of simple and limited expansion of the Apostles’ Creed for doctrine and Apostolic practic...
... let go the boy, and I’ll give ye five hundred—I’ll give ye a cheque on my banker for a thousand pounds; and, hark me out, you do this, you swear, as ... ...parture. John stood like a soldier. We drove away from a cheering crowd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal ... ...owed to land and walk home. Boddy caught the rudder lines and leapt on the bank to hand her out; then all the boys in her boat and in Catman’s shouted... ...aper’s stuff, I for pastry and letter-paper. The smell of people’s dinners united our appetites. Going through a vil- lage I saw a man carrying a grea... ...t uncertainly. We looked round. A steam-tug was towing our ship out toward banks of red-reflecting cloud, and a smell of sea air. ‘Why, that’s the Eas... ..., furnish them with a cordial alacrity to which we might have attached un- limited credence had he not protested against our dreaming him to have supp... ...y good and affectionate, and has won my esteem. So you and your father are united at last? We have often talked of you. Oh! that day up by the tower. ... .... A princess drew them as the moon the tides. By degrees they subsided and united, each reserving its view; a point at which I imagined myself to have... ...stop the suit of a life-time. I thought of Lady Edbury; but her income was limited, and her expenditure was not of Lady Sampleman, but it was notoriou...
...nd daughter traversed the bridge and entered the grow- ing suburb known as Bankside, where wretched cottages be- longing to needy, grasping proprietor... ...y’s smooth open brow, ‘Very well then, go and do whatever comes to hand at Bankside, my dear. I do really want to stay at home, both on Aubrey’s accou... ...isfied in her obedience, and set off with her father. Just as they reached Bankside, a gig drove up contain- ing the fattest old man she had ever behe... ...e bump when she comes home. Oh! when will our poor remnants be once more a united family? and when shall I get into Cocksmoor school again?’ When Dr. ... ... at Coombe. The sisters soon followed, and were detained to drink tea. The cricketers’ mirth must have been fast and furious if it exceeded that at ho... ... dark for taking aim, he and the weapon were so thor- 111 Yo n g e oughly united, that no further difficulty remained but of getting out his thanks t... ...tified at having the charge of him all to himself, and considered that the united influence of member and mayor must prevail. Dr. Spencer, on the cont... ...en obliged to go to a benefit club entertain- ment; and Ethel, knowing the limited literary resources of the parsonage, was surprised to find Tom stil...
...h-west, on Stoneham to the south, and Hursley to the west, lying along the bank of the Itchen. The churches of both parishes were probably built in th... ...ope leading down from the level of the inner court to that surrounded by a bank. This slope is probably formed by the ruins of the 9 Charlotte M. ... ...om it only by the great ditch. On either side of the tower—cutting the em- bankment across, therefore, at right angles—was a little ditch, spanned by ... ...thes having been found insufficient for the main- tenance of the vicar, he united to Hursley the rectory of Otterbourne, giving the great tithes to th... ...e crossing the moat fell in and choked it; it became a marsh; the farm was united to another, the picture removed, and the only inhabitants are such a... ... strik- ing: here the copyhold is hereditary, the services are certain and limited, the fines are fixed and unchangeable, the lord has no right of war... ...ts the green expanse for donkeys and children, including the more youthful cricketers, not yet pro- moted to matches. From the top of the hill extends... ...y a spruce sable rival descended and cap- tivated the faithless dame. They united, chased poor Mr. White- tail over the high garden hedge, and he was ...
...generally with his regiment, and when visiting them was a good deal at the United Service Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retir... ...n to rights of way. Thither were the Ogilvies bound, in search of primrose banks, but their way led them past two or three houses on the hill-top, one... ...at they might well call enchanted ground. She was in the midst of a curved bank where the copsewood had no doubt been recently cut away, and which was... ... the mother herself. There is no charm perhaps equal to that of a primrose bank on a sunny day in spring, sight, sound, scent all alike exquisite. It ... ...where Mary looked in vain for her friend’s sons. “No, they are not much of cricketers,” said her brother; “they are small for it yet, and only take th... .... The weather was very sultry, forbidding exertion on the part of all save cricketers; but there was a match at Redford, and Kenminster was eager abou... ...ile,” said Janet, again ab- sorbing herself in her paper, while the public united in guess- ing the acrostic; and the only objection was raised by the... ...icked and un- feeling to have been dancing, and cried so bitterly that the united efforts of her aunt and brother could not persuade her that what was... ...room and bride could not bear to go out of reach of intell-igence, and had limited their tour to the nearest place on the coast, where they could hear...
...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ... of the larger amount of our social and political effort are astonishingly limited and unsatisfactory, astonishingly irrelevant to the broad reality o... ...f party exposition—in America just as in England—date from the days of the limited outlook. They display no conscious- ness of the new dissent. They a... ...fter its first massacres, is not a Foundling Hospital at all. An extremely limited number of children, the illegitimate chil- dren of recommended resp... ...at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive to consume. But it will be urged that the... ...to suggest him in some phase of typical activity, “enjoying himself ” on a Bank Holiday, or rejoicing, peacock feather in hand, hat askew, and voice c... ...eover, and of the children of a growing element in the life of the eastern United States, the home functions are delegated in a very large de- gree to... ...es unless they are also remunerative; where public applause is the meed of cricketers, hostile guerillas, clamorous authors, yacht-racing grocers, and... ... resemble a river that once swamped a whole country-side, but has now been banked within its channel. Even when these expedients have been exhaustivel...
...y moment when the political problem, having suddenly ceased to mean a very limited and occasional interference, mostly by way of jobbing public appoin... ...e college passmen, these well groomed monocu- lar Algys and Bobbies, these cricketers to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom, these plutocratic pro... ... with a servant who knows more than his masters. The conception of Mendoza Limited I trace back to a certain West Indian colonial secre- tary, who, at... ...ANNER. [cutting him short by getting into the car] Off we go. First to the bank for money; then to my rooms for my kit; then to your rooms for your ki... ... Ottavio: well, did you ever open the spinet from the hour when the Church united him to you? ANA. You are a fool, Juan. A young married woman has som... ...what the business is. The office is in this town; and the name is Mendoza, Limited. Now whether 162 GB Shaw Mendoza’s a mine, or a steamboat line, or... ...ited. Now whether 162 GB Shaw Mendoza’s a mine, or a steamboat line, or a bank, or a patent article— TANNER. He’s a man. I know him: his principles a...