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...to undertake the care of her eldest daughter, a girl now nine years old, of an age to require more attention than her poor mother could possibly give?... ...duty by her, and she will at least have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress.” “Very true,” cried Mrs. Norris, “w... ...e, there was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations. She was small of her age, with no glow of complexion, nor any other striking beauty; exceedi... ...nto the drawing room. “Dear Mamma, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe together — or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers of Russ... ...nt looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates. Having visited many more rooms than could be ... ..., a bowling green, and beyond the bowling green a long terrace walk, backed by iron palissades, and commanding a view over them into the tops of the t... ...irectly to the end of it. We looked down the whole vista, and saw it closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong in length.” ...

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...social status of a wife and the right to be supported and pensioned in old age out of his income. That’s the advanced view—our view. Besides, if you h... ...ffer greatly in expression. The Colonel’s face is lined with weather, with age, with eating and drinking, and with the cumulative effects of many pett... ... recess, 25 GB Shaw reading “The British Medical Journal.” He is young as age is counted in the professions—barely forty. His hair is wearing bald on... ...sses to the right hand recess by way of the fender, knocking down the fire irons with a crash as he does so.) CRAVEN (who has crossed to the whirling ... ...e experiments enough—only three dogs and a monkey. Think of that, with all Europe full of my professional ri- vals—men burning to prove me wrong! Ther... ...hout malice). Never mind, Miss Craven. That is what is being said all over Europe now. Never mind. SYLVIA (a little abashed). I’m so sorry, Dr. Paramo... ...liver—a clinking run across country with the hounds. PARAMORE (with bitter irony). Isn’t that rather cruel—a pack of dogs ripping up a fox? JULIA (com... ...’m used to it: It’s the only sort of attachment I seem always to inspire. (Ironically) You can’t think how flattering it is! PARAMORE. My dear Miss Cr...

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...t the higher stages of the bar barian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distinction be- tween class... ... scheme of life of these groups at the time of their earliest contact with Europeans seems to have been nearly typical, so far as regards the absence ... ...corum, than any but the very exquisite among the 33 Veblen men of a later age. Indeed, it is well known, or at least it is currently believed, that m... ...ial training is slight. Also, this occupation requires more than the aver- age of intelligence and general information, and the men employed in it are... ...t for the point in question) grows more perfunc- tory as the cult gains in age and consistency, and this per- functoriness of the rehearsal is very pl... ... first promptings of the sense of economic beauty, is afforded by the cast-iron rustic fence and trellis or by a circuitous drive laid across level gr... ...ty so also, in later times, among the, peasants of nearly every country of Europe. These na- tional or popular costumes are in most cases adjudged by ...

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...eted by an over-zealous French cen- sor. It only adds to the indignity and irony of the situa- tion to say that young Cummings is an enthusiastic love... ...not placed in the middle of this end, but at one side, allowing for a huge iron can waist-high which stood in the other corner. Over the door and acro... ...teps which brought me to the door-end. The door was massively made, all of iron or steel I should think. It delighted me. The can excited my curiosity... ...comes a little boy. May God bless all males between seven and ten years of age in France! The gendarme offered a suggestion, in these words: “Have you... ...ts complete lack of all the accepted appurtenances and prerogatives of old age. Its little stooping body, helpless and brittle, bore with extraordinar... ...hen as if its owner was suffering from a severe cold. This person emanated age, neatness and despair. Aside from the nose which compelled immediate at... ...e maps to my right and left, maps of France, maps of the Mediterranean, of Europe, even, were abashed. A little anaemic and humble biped whom I had no... ...pt him from letting off entirely all concerned in what after all (from the European point of view) was an essentially hu- man proceeding. As nobody co...

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...k at the century after the revelations to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread ... ... Arabian Peninsula throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and even into Europe within less than a cen- tury—seemed, and seems, miraculous. 6 Nostal... ...extreme Islamist version of history blames the decline from Islam’s golden age on the rulers and people who turned away from the true path of their re... ...Bin Ladin investment com- pany to carry out procurement trips from western Europe to the Far East.T wo others,W adi al Hage and Mubarak Douri, who had... ... in Sudan. It also reinforced its London base and its other offices around Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. Bin Ladin bolstered his links to ext... .... 102 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 102 Ironically, this committee was eliminated in the 1970s as Congress was unde... ...ulation, estimating half as much collateral damage and not predicting dam- age to the mosque. By the end of the meeting, the principals decided agains... ...s completed and the equipment was ready, but legal issues were still being ironed out. 114 By August 11, the principals had agreed to deploy the Preda... ... have made them very interested in learning more about Mihdhar. 71 The sad irony is that the agents who found the source were being kept from obtainin...

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... see, my dears. Well, Rose Jocelyn would just suit Evan. She is just of an age to receive an impression. And I would take care she did. In- stance me ... ... were Messrs. Barnes, Kilne, and Grossby, whom we know; Mr. Doubleday, the ironmonger; Mr. Joyce, the 59 George Meredith grocer; Mr. Perkins, commonl... ...t. ‘The Douglas and the Percy: “he took the dead man by the hand.” What an age it seems since I last saw that. There’s Sir Hugh Montgom- ery on horseb... ...e old gentleman’s home. Men do not play truant from home at sixty years of age. He must, therefore, be seriously indisposed. The kind heart of the lan... ...arked: ‘Oh! that is the language of the son of a gentleman.’ The tumult of irony, abuse, and retort, went on despite the efforts of Drummond and the c... ... step not only upset the Honourable Melville’s, but shattered the limbs of Europe. Let us admit, that it is easier to fit a man’s legs than to com- pr... ...ses so profoundly humble, that a listener would have taken them for bitter irony. He said adieu to her,—pronouncing it with a pathos to melt scornful ...

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... the laws of history. The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. Men leave t... ...ons of people. Men leave their customary pursuits, hasten from one side of Europe to the other, plunder and slaughter one another, triumph and are plu... ...n reflec- tions concerning these actions. CHAPTER II THE FORCES OF A DOZEN EUROPEAN nations burst into Russia. The Russian army and people avoided a c... ...one. Having listened to her mother’s objections, Helene smiled blandly and ironically. “But it says plainly: ‘Whosoever shall marry her that is di- vo... ..., who threw sidelong glances at Pierre, got the fire to burn and placed an iron pot on it into which they broke some dried bread and put a little drip... ...ustody. I like you and don’t wish you any harm and—as you are only half my age-I advise you, as a father would, to cease all communication with men of...

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...that a Fever doth not melt him like snow, but powr him out like lead, like iron, like brasse melted in a furnace: It doth not only melt him, but calci... ...s, and tels him so, and death is at a young mans backe, and saies nothing; Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush; and we need so many Phisicians,... ...ted to us, out of time, in our decrepit, and distasted, and unapprehensive Age, loose their Office, and loose their Name; They are not Honors to us, th... ...s, and Pleasures, and Possessions; and when they come in an unapprehensive Age, they come as a Cordial when the bell rings out, as a Pardon, when the ... ... a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away 32 JOHN DONNE by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mann...

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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... ...red like hair flying in the wind, and the tufts of rosemary crept into the iron rocks that they might not be torn up by the roots. It was, of course, ... ...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... ...uld say: “That’s all right. Don’t you bother about me.” I fancy his wife’s irony did quite alarm poor Teddy; because one evening he asked me seriously... ...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... ...father’s rare visits to Eu- rope, we were sitting in the gardens, near the iron-stained foun- tain. Leonora had one of her headaches and we were waiti...

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...wning greyhound then did proffer me! Look,’when his infant fortune came to age,’ And ‘gentle Harry Percy,’ and ‘kind cousin;’ O, the devil take such c... ... thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch’d, And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars; Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed; Cry ‘Courage! to th... ...showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o’clock at midnight. [Re enter FRANCIS.] What’s ... ...ful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble car riage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r lady, in clining to three score; and now I remem... ... me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler’s in Europe. I have main tained that salamander of yours with fire any time thi...

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...n the sub- ject was dropped. He was a man between fifty and sixty years of age, with grey hair, rather short, and somewhat corpulent, but still gifted... ...whole tenor of his life had espe- cially fitted him. Now, in his green old age, he had ceased to covet, but had not ceased to repine. He had ceased to... ...seems to me that you want to encourage him. A child about sixteen years of age!’ ‘I am told she is nineteen.’ ‘What does it matter if she’s fifty-nine... ...d.’ ‘And Mrs Arabin;—she is with him?’ ‘They tell me she is not. She is in Europe. He is in Pales- tine.’ ‘In Palestine, is he?’ ‘So they tell me. A d... ...aid his prayers ever since that day. And now his surplices were washed and ironed and folded and put away; but there were moments in which he would st... ...hey were standing near a corner, where a turning path made an angle in the iron rails, Mr Dunn having proposed that they should wait there for a few m... ...ar Mr John,’ said Miss Anne Prettyman, ‘Dr T empest is as hard as a bar of iron, and always was. But I am surprised that Mr Robarts should take a part... ...Chronicle of Barset ‘What a paladin you have been, John, rushing all about Europe on your friend’s behalf!’ ‘Don’t talk about that.’ ‘And such a succe...

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...ales, in the town of Camelot, the great stones and the marvellous works of iron lying under the ground, and royal vaults, which divers now living have... ...for he have great myster thereof, and me repenteth sore of your great dam- age. It shall be soon revenged, said King Ban, for I trust in God mine ure ... ...r they might. Right so came by him Merlin like a child of fourteen year of age, and saluted the king, and asked him why he was so pensive. I may well ... ... Merlin, and came again in the likeness of an old man of fourscore year of age, whereof the king was right glad, for he seemed to be right wise. Then ... ... he let write in the pommel of the sword. Then Merlin let make a bridge of iron and of steel into that island, and it was but half a foot broad, and t... ...and so he was, for he saw him sit under a tree of holly, and many clubs of iron and gisarms about him. So this knight dressed him to the giant, puttin... ... Armenia, whereas the river of Euphrates runneth into Asia, to Africa, and Europe the Large, to Ertayne and Elamye, to Araby, Egypt, and to Damascus, ...

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...nvicts, all the twenty six years of his prison life, and his premature old age. The thought of it all made him so wretched that he was ready to kill h... ... gave him an order. He went and fetched shack les: two blocks of oak with iron rings attached, and a clasp and lock fixed to one of the rings. They u... ...y, with a neck like a bull’s, and looking altogether as if he were cast in iron. The gentleman puffed, threw off his fur coat, sat down on the bench, ... ...ve By” 62 Hardly had he begun to rebuke Michael, when ‘rat tat , went the iron ring that hung at the door. Some one was knocking. They looked out of ... ...and never short of work. Martin had always been a good man; but in his old age he began to think more about his soul and to draw nearer to God. While ... ...on. But he had no luck with his children. No sooner had the boy reached an age when he could help his father and be a support as well as a joy to him,... ...nnot but observe how the true Mohammedan faith continues to spread both in Europe and Asia, and even in the enlightened coun try of China. You say yo... ...y Japan, and the Philippines and Sumatra where we now are, but Africa, and Europe and America, and many lands besides. The sun does not shine for some... ...he pays so much is that it is the only such gambling establishment left in Europe. Some of the little German Sovereigns used to keep gaming houses of ...

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...d you, too, Miss Carpenter: I wonder at you not to have more sense at your age and with your size! Miss Wilson can’t help hearing when you come down w... ...ter begin. She is the eldest.” “Oh, of course,” said Jane, with whimpering irony. “Let Jane do all the nasty things first. I think it’s very hard. You... ... too. No one ever considers me.” “Oh, I like to hear you talk,” cried Jane ironically. “Y ou are considered a great deal more than is good for you; an... ... much of the rainfall, Miss,” he said. “You are a fine young lady for your age. Nigh on twelve stone, I should think.” She reddened and hurried to the... ...den savings bank I have at home, and keep it to spend when sickness or odd age shall, in a manner of speak- ing, lay their ‘ends upon me. I could smoo... ...he old ones we wore out.” “Then why not employ them?” said T refusis, with ironical gravity. “The principle of buying laborforce in the cheapest marke... ...xpence apiece; knowing that he is not bullet proof, and that every king in Europe has been shot at in the streets; he must smile and bow and maintain ... ...vapid, and rather coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like. Here are ship-captains, ...

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...(1558) Egmont made a repu- tation as one of the most brilliant generals in Europe, and became the idol of his countrymen. When in 1559 a new Regent of... ... of Alva was sent to the Netherlands with instructions to put down with an iron hand all resistance to his master’s will. How terribly 4 Egmont he ca... ...ppy girl! Thou seest not the power that holds us fettered as with bands of iron. Clara. To me it does not appear invincible. Let us not lose time in i...

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...know it had arrived. “He writes about this war,” said the prince, with the ironic smile that had become habitual to him in speaking of the present war... ... was doing. “Always busy,” replied Michael Ivanovich with a respect- fully ironic smile which caused Princess Mary to turn pale. “He’s worrying very m... ... or anyone from the staff, he bristled up immedi- ately and grew spiteful, ironical, and contemptuous. Every- thing that reminded him of his past was ... ...just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to... ...nd mentally vigorous peas- ants who grow big beards as soon as they are of age and go on unchanged till they are sixty or seventy, without a gray hair... ...f these—but because of something else. He despised them because of his old age and experience of life. The only instruction Kutuzov gave of his own ac... ...ne thing needed tomorrow—that which Timokhin has. They have yielded up all Europe to him, and have now come to teach us. Fine teachers!” and again his... ...oism and devotion of his troops fighting at Salamanca, at the other end of Europe, with but one thought—to be worthy of their Emperor—and but one fear... ...ting. By long years of military experience he knew, and with the wisdom of age understood, that it is im- possible for one man to direct hundreds of t...

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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... ...ct simply to screen out—much as, just in front of him while he walked, the iron shutter of a shop, closing early to the stale summer day, rattled down... ...m after a little, definitely, the image of a friend whom he had often found ironic. He withheld the tribute of attention from passing faces only to let... ...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... ...“She can come, you know, at any time, to Mrs. Assingham took it up with an irony beyond laughter. “You’d like her for your honeymoon?” “Oh no, you mus... ...as a purchaser, approached privately and from afar. Great people, all over Europe, sought introductions to him; high personages, incredibly high, and ... ... 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...