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..., and distinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end ... ...belief that he had property, and that he would be independent on coming of age. He spent an irregular boy- hood and youth. He did not finish his studi... ...id not begin to receive any income from Fyodor Pavlovitch until he came of age, and until then got into debt. He saw and knew his father, Fyodor Pavlo... ...aw and knew his father, Fyodor Pavlovitch, for the first time on coming of age, when he visited our neighbourhood on purpose to settle with him about ... ...rto at least I have stood in the front ranks of all that is progressive in Europe, and here the new generation posi- tively ignores us,” he thought. ... ..., and even that under control and this will be so everywhere in all modern European countries. But Russian hopes and conceptions de- mand not that the... ...over. Krassotkin put his hand in his satchel, and pulling out a little bronze cannon stood it on the table. “Ah, you are bound to ask that! Lo... ...t it to you.” And Kolya hurriedly pulled out of his satchel the little bronze cannon. He hurried, because he was happy himself. Another time he wo... ...y closer and her request was granted. She was much pleased with the little bronze cannon on wheels and began rolling it to and fro on her lap. She rea...

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...chief scruple is whether it be fair to ask a girl to marry a man twice her age, when she has abso- lutely seen nothing of his kind but the German mast... ...ly at life opening on her; so don’t be daunted, and imagine it is your old age and infirmity,” said the mother, smoothing back the locks which certain... ... they had been very select, and chiefly historical romance. She was at the age when nothing is impossible to youthful dreams, and if Tancredi had come... ... from the sofa to the floor, and disposed of it for security’s sake on the bronze head of Apollo, which was wait- ing till his bracket could be put up... ... scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Alge- ria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns sup- porting the horse-shoe arches wer... ...ense, and had just come home from the French modiste who had adapted it to European wear. Allen started up in admiration and delight. Even Mr. Mor- ga... ... him collecting testimonials for his fitness to act as Vice-principal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mot...

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...d affable fellow when sober and unprovoked. He seemed about fifty years of age, and was clad in a straw hat and a suit of white linen. He had just fin... ...e, doggedly. “I know 23 George Bernard Shaw what I would ha’ said at your age. But perhaps you’re right to be cautious. I tell you the truth, I would... ...ss, and a patience with the law’s delay, that seemed incompatible with her age and sex. When all was arranged, and she was once more able to enjoy per... ...s of marble. Even his hair, short, crisp, and curly, seemed like burnished bronze in the evening light. It came into Lydia’s mind that she had disturb... ...e dragon de- signs in copper-colored metal. Near the fireplace was a great bronze bell of Chinese shape, mounted like a mortar on a black wooden carri... ...ho breathed it; and eventually for his life, when he learned that kings in Europe were sometimes shot at by passers-by, there being hardly a monarch t... ... pistol practice; and that the autocrat of an empire huge beyond all other European countries, whose father had been torn asunder in the streets of hi... ...u- nity to go in search of him. Now, there was hardly a capital in western Europe that she did not know better than Lon- don. She had an impression th... ...eir path. At last Cashel stopped. They instantly stopped too. He took some bronze coin from his pocket, rattled it in his hand, and addressed them. “B...

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...estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes. She was regarded a... ...ds and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age. Signs are small measurable things, but interpre tations are illimitab... ...s uncom monly well—does Casaubon. He has deferred to me, you not being of age. In short, I have promised to speak to you, though I told him I thought... ...had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. Genius, he held, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one h... ...is sequence to Bichat’s work, already vibrating along many currents of the European mind, Lydgate was enamoured; he longed to demonstrate the more int... ...rothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter’s, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention in the attitudes and garments of the p... ...the time here has not been passed unpleasantly to you. Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in som...

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...y boy, but I do think you might try and understand him. You are nearer his age, and if you let yourself go I am sure you are sensible. You might help ... ...earls, and she struck no more right notes than was suitable for one of her age and situation. Nor was she the passionate young lady, who performs so t... ... whole life of the South was disorganized, and the most graceful nation in Europe had turned into formless lumps of clothes. The street and the river ... ... hill. Mr. Beebe recognized him at once. Neither the Ages of Faith nor the Age of Doubt had touched him; he was Phaethon in Tuscany driving a cab. And... ...il all over again. He daren’t let a woman decide. He’s the type who’s kept Europe back for a thousand years. Every mo- ment of his life he’s forming y... ...cy.” “Oh, yes, you do think it. It’s your old idea, the idea that has kept Europe back—I mean the idea that women are always thinking of men. If a gir... ...circled by blue seas; that under Parnassus, where the eagles build and the bronze charioteer drives undismayed towards infinity. Trembling, anxious, c...

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...imself to theory , or permitting his faculties to rust, even at that early age, in mere abstract speculations, this promising lad commenced usurer on ... ..., and presented himself in Mr Nickleby’s room. He was a tall man of middle age, with two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture, a rubicund nose, a cad... ...is smiling without any obvious reason was the more remarkable. ‘Up to what age do you keep boys at your school then?’ he asked at length. ‘Just as lon... ...think of what has passed, I need be made of iron to stand before him.’ ‘Or bronze,’ said Ralph, quietly; ‘there is not hardihood enough in flesh and b... ...ead, or one grasp of my hand, to save him from the loftiest gallows in all Europe. I will not meet him, come where he comes, or hear his name. I will ...

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...nched an officer’s jaw, dressed like he was, maybe only nineteen, the same age like he was, with a girl like Mabe waiting for him somewhere. How cold ... ...t sort of thing. He counted up the months. It was March. Here he’d been in Europe five months and he was still only a corporal, and not that yet. He c... ... and throw ‘em off the Pont Neuf and set out … . O boy, this is the golden age for living by your wits.” “You’re not out of the army yet.” “I should w... ...he bluish-grey pile of the Opera, with its pompous win- dows and its naked bronze ladies holding lamps. He was in a narrow street full of hotels and f... ...eighteen wars going,” muttered Henslowe. “I haven’t seen any papers for an age … . How do you mean?” “People are fighting to beat the cats everywhere ... ... git in the automoebile business soon as Oi clane up a few more bo- nuses. Europe’s dead an stinkin’, Yank. Ain’t no place for a young fellow. It’s de... ...“Where?” “How should I know? If I like it, that is … . Life is very bad in Europe.” “It is stifling, I suppose,” said Andrews slowly, “all these natio...

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...ver, saying to the footman, “Not at home.” He had been disappointed in the age, grossly deceived in the appearance of the man claiming to be his relat... ...parley. It was performed by a gentleman supremely advanced at a very early age in the art of cutting. Young Sir Willoughby spoke a word of the rejecte... ...hterless, long sub- sequent to the memorable day of Willoughby’s coming of age. Lady Busshe was for Constantia Durham. She laughed at Mrs Mountstuart ... ... picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his Maker’s grotesques. V ernon seemed... ...een devoted to Clara Middleton’s friend. The morning’s letters were on the bronze plate in the hall. Clara passed on her way to her room without inspe...

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...d, and does not wish, for war. She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will 5 Tol... ...m! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless be- fore him…. And I don’t believe a word that Hardenbu... ...aith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. “I think,” sa... ...ghest Petersburg society was assembled there: people dif- fering widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Pr... ...n- cess Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna. The vi... ...ow very ill- suited to her careworn face. Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed all the old feminine arts. But as soon a... ...ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince V asili came out—wearin...

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...imself to theory , or permitting his faculties to rust, even at that early age, in mere abstract speculations, this promising lad commenced usurer on ... ..., and presented himself in Mr Nickleby’s room. He was a tall man of middle age, with two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture, a rubicund nose, a cad... ...is smiling without any obvious reason was the more remarkable. ‘Up to what age do you keep boys at your school then?’ he asked at length. ‘Just as lon... ...think of what has passed, I need be made of iron to stand before him.’ ‘Or bronze,’ said Ralph, quietly; ‘there is not hardihood enough in flesh and b... ...ead, or one grasp of my hand, to save him from the loftiest gallows in all Europe. I will not meet him, come where he comes, or hear his name. I will ... ... know. If there is any better place for such things, where is it? Is it in Europe? No, that it isn’t. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it’s not. Is it in...

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...he ambassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, but I don’t believe it,” s... ...on it. With rapid, bony fingers he unbuttoned his coat, revealing a shirt, bronze waistcoat buttons, and a watch chain, and quickly pulled out a fat o... ...y, and then he still had to drive round to call on a certain great person- age on a matter of grave and serious import. Alexey Alexandrovitch only jus... ...ng there with her mother and the Mos- cow colonel, smart and jaunty in his European coat, bought ready-made at Frankfort. They were walking on one sid... ...her established position in Russian society, she tried abroad to be like a European fashionable lady, which she was not—for the simple reason that she...

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...essary knowledge, to give a history of this obscure family. But this is an age when genealogy has taken a new lease of life, and become for the first ... ...onder if Mrs. John, thus exercised in her immediate circle, was in her old age ‘a great genealogist of all Sussex families, and much con- sulted.’ The... ...st, where he offered, we may hope, an extreme example of the clergy of the age. He was a handsome figure of a man; jovial and jocu- lar; fond of his g... ... important teacher than Deluc was at hand; the year 1848, so momentous for Europe, was momentous also for Fleeming’s character. The family poli- tics ... ...ngly. They have got to the top of the public monuments, and, mingling with bronze or stone statues, five or six make a sort of tab- leau vivant, the t... ...inspired by the spirit of perfection as the happiest drawing or the finest bronze; and he who could not enjoy it in the one was not fully able to enjo... ...ntry of its birth; and by France and Italy, and all the other countries of Europe and America – practically the whole scientific world – at the Electr...

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...ot acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce were, leisured Americans, which is as muc... ...poor Florence’s broken years was a storm at sea upon our first crossing to Europe, and the immediate reasons for our imprisonment in that continent we... ...r- dinary kind of heart. And the joke of the matter was that, when, at the age of eighty-four, just five days before poor Florence, he died of bronchi... ...to get out in the great big spectacular Prussian station with the hammered bronze ornaments and the paintings of peasants and flowers and cows; and to... ...e children, she was more tender; nearly all of them she supported till the age of apprenticeship or domestic service. You see, she was childless herse... ...he was an American, a New Englander. She had not the hot passions of these Europeans. She cut out that poor imbecile of an Edward—and I pray God that ... ... offering her, in this trip, a birthday present to celebrate her coming of age. Then, on the 4th of August, 1900, she yielded to an action that certai... ... dimly to be seen, above a mantelpiece encum- bered with spurs, hooves and bronze models of horses, a dark- brown picture of a white horse. “If you th...

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...ad a literature I am convinced that no history of an independent nation in Europe would prove so interesting as that of the Cossacks.” Again he com- p... ...uin, and sub- jected Russia to a two-century bondage, cutting her off from Europe, a state of chaos existed and the separate tribes fought with one an... ...rope. The appearance of the Cossacks was coincident with the appearance in Europe of brotherhoods and knight- hood-orders, and this new race, in spite... ...s the greatest of all virtues—the God in man, inspired Gogol, living in an age which tended toward grey tedium, with admiration for his more fortunate... ...rson, a private soldier, a lackey, children of both sexes, beginning at an age when a child begins to love a fairy tale—all might read it or listen to... ...and quickly stood on a level with the best. The style of education in that age differed widely from the manner of life. The scholas- tic, grammatical,... ...y a trace of gilding now remained. It represented an old man, with a thin, bronzed face and high cheek-bones; the features seemingly depicted in a mom... ...een at him. And lo! he did look from behind the screen, with the very same bronzed face, and with his big eyes roving about. Tchartkoff tried to screa... ...pernatural nature. The strong features, so deeply chis- elled; the glowing bronze of his complexion; the incred- ible thickness of his brows; the into...

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...all a person as John Baptist Cavalletto. ‘Call me five-and-thirty years of age. I have seen the world. I have lived here, and lived there, and lived l... ...was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled there until my father’s death there, a year ago; always gri... ...y, she might have been passed in the street for little more than half that age. Not that her face was very youthful, for in truth there was more consi... ...is mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a posi- tion and so European a reputation did not owe it—we would not say to himself, but we wo... ... of the Britannic Majesty abroad. This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success tha... ...as in vain for the engaging Ferdinand to bring Lord Decimus to look at the bronze horses near Mr Merdle. Then Mr Merdle evaded, and wandered away. It ... ...and soon, with their coach load of luxuries from the two great capitals of Europe, they were (like the Goths reversed) beating at the gates of Rome. M...

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...ells had in old days played the adventurer and charmed a maid of a certain age into yielding her hand to him; and the lady was the squire of Earlsfont... ...ot hold of us, if we ‘re not to get loose. We don’t count many millions in Europe, and there’s no shame in sub- mitting to force majeure, if a stand w... ...ity of the reputation he bore at the courts and in the gambling-saloons of Europe. Dread- ing lest his client’s angry heat should precipitate him on t... ...ndly put for the sake of promoting conversation with a companion of unripe age by a gentleman who had whole- somely excited his blood to run. They wer... ... except the last one. Patrick had no immediate destination in view. ‘Leave Europe behind you,’ said Mr. Adister warming, to advise him, and checking t... ...t and can’t, poor t’ other must, or the union’s a mockery. She was cast in bronze at her birth, if she wasn’t cut in bog-root. Anyhow, you’ll study he... ...about where we’re going and what we came out of. No wonder they call it an age of despair, when you see the big wigs filing up and down the thoroughfa...

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...he phrase is, for ex pensive renovations. I make use here of the figure of age and infirmity, but in point of fact I had rather viewed the reappearance... ...t this had made him say. “Don’t talk about me—it’s you who are not of this age. You’re a creature of a braver and finer one, and the cinquecento, at it... ...s futile, and of his absolute acceptance of the developments of the coming age—to redress the balance of his being so differently considered. The mome... ...ewess nor a lazy Creole; New York had been recordedly her birth place and “Europe” punctually her discipline. She wore yellow and purple because she t... ...and of which the apparent firmness is expressed in their old silver and old bronze. He knew her narrow hands, he knew her long fingers and the shape and... ...as a purchaser, approached privately and from afar. Great people, all over Europe, sought introductions to him; high personages, incredibly high, and ... ...ws you feel it—that is a regular way.” Of decent old gold, old silver, old bronze, of old chased and jewelled artistry, were the objects that, success... ... art, fine eminent “pieces” in gold, in silver, in enamel, majolica, ivory, bronze, had for a number of years so multiplied themselves round him and, a... ... the first order. Adam Verver knew by this time, knew thoroughly; no man in Europe or in America, he privately believed, was for such estimates less ca...

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...s attractive. If she was there, other cows were there too. The darkness of Europe was dotted with them, and in the far East their flanks were 5 EM Fo... ...—its divine interval between the bareness of boyhood and the stuffiness of age. Rickie had dis- covered it in his second term, when the January snows ... ... things he had pretended. “Shall I ever have a friend?” he demanded at the age of twelve. “I don’t see how. They walk too fast. And a brother I shall ... ...is own equilibrium. Neither the Revivalism that assails a boy at about the age of fifteen, nor the scepticism that meets him five years later, could s... ...l, yet their seed became as sand of the sea, and distracts the politics of Europe at this mo- ment. But a few verses of poetry is all that survives of... ...shaven cheeks. His hair was so wet that it seemed worked upon his scalp in bronze. “Get away, bad dog!” screamed the lady, for he had given himself a ...