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... their endurance. And observe, once more, with what temerity you have cho- sen precisely her to be your spy, whose esteem you value highest, and whom ... ...mours; ambiguous acts, unpardonable words, may yet have sprung from a kind sen- timent. If the injured one could read your heart, you may be sure that... ...ory, that I daresay the sick man is not very inconsolable when he receives sen- tence of banishment, and is inclined to regard his ill-health as not t... ...ish would be enough to overthrow the dainty equilibrium, and yet all these hun- dreds of tons of coal and wood and iron have been precipi- tated roari... ...er took its place. She endured, according to Raleigh’s computation, “eight hun- dred shot of great artillery, besides many assaults and en- tries.” By... ... of wellbeing in bed. And here, of course, you will understand pleasurable sen- sations; for overmastering pain – the most deadly and tragi- cal eleme... ... Puerisque & Other Papers and harmonious; words take a new meaning; single sen- tences possess the ear for half an hour together; and the writer endea...

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...t the side of a stout mare. The little General had been present at about a hun- dred and twenty pitched battles on Hounslow Heath and Wormwood Scrubs,... ...ll. The tender scene at Lord Mantrap’s was followed by many others equally sen- timental. Sir George Gorgon called upon his colleague the very next da...

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...at in heart only, approached in heart to the sublime; but in the sphere of sen- timents, being more a man of action than of thought, he 27 Balzac kep... ...thousand, now twenty more,—thirty thousand! the income of which is fifteen hun- dred! the cost of my box at the Opera, and the whole fortune of many a...

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...rs as with the voice of a bird. Its stately head, blue as a sapphire on the paler azure of the sky, spoke to us of wider out- looks and the bright Pac... ... with the same shrewd smirk. If the boy said there was “a hole there in the hill” – a hole, pure and simple, neither more nor less – Kelmar and his Je... ...erhead, and its surface shone and undulated like a great nor’land moor country, sheeted with untrodden morning snow. And next the new level must have ... ...y. “Our noisy years seem moments in the wake Of the eternal silence.” As to the success of Silverado in its time of being, two reports were current. A...

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... him the state of my affections, and demand his daughter’s hand. With such sen- timental outpourings did our voyage continue and conclude. We landed a... ...feet, nearly, in height; he can eat a bullock daily (of which he has seven hun- dred at present in the compound, and swears that during the siege he w... ...were a piece of my own leg, she should still have something to satisfy her hun- ger. Luckily I remembered that three or four elephants were still lyin... ...eard the gal- lop of their horse: they came nearer, nearer; I was within a hun- dred yards of the fort—seventy—fifty! I strained every nerve; I panted...

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...re to lodge a dag- ger in his heart, as the adequate reply to the imperial sen- tence of proscription against himself. Such, amidst his superhuman gra... ...ward with assistance in money, or by promises, to the amount of nearly two hun- dred thousand pounds. And at another, he was accustomed to amuse himse... ...s intelligible to his senses, even in these few moments he was attacked by hun- ger and thirst. No other bread could be obtained (or, per- haps, if th... ...uch spectacles must have hardened the heart, and blunted the more delicate sen- sibilities; but these would soon cease to stimulate the pam- pered and... ... assassination or by public rebellion. On the other hand, if he wallows in sen- suality, and is careless about all discipline, civil or military, we t... ...icipated a rejec- tion. But, on the other hand, it seems probable that the sen- ate supposed its sanction to be despised. Nothing, appar- ently, but t... ...n to vindicate the Ro- man name and honor: “Know,” said he, writing to the sen- ate, “that 320,000 Goths have set foot upon the Roman soil. Should I c...

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...stom 4 The Moon and Sixpence stales one’s admiration for him: the Cretan, sen- sual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacr... ...ou said she wouldn’t have a bob?” “Of course I did. She’s got two or three hun- dred pounds and the furniture.” “But how is she going to live?” “God k... ...y of assuming the moral atti- tude; and in this case the certainty that my sen- timents would be lost on Strickland made it pe- culiarly embarrassing ... ...hat he ate; to him it was only food that he devoured to still the pangs of hun- ger; and when no food was to be had he seemed capable of doing without... ...ageous sensuality; but, though it sounds nonsense, it seemed as though his sen- suality were curiously spiritual. There was in him something primitive... ...His appearance was wild and un- couth; there was aloofness in his eyes and sen- suality in his mouth; he was big and strong; he gave the impression of... ...Paris, and it may be that your brother will be able to sell it for the two hun- dred francs you lent Strickland.’ Well, we packed it up and we sent it... ... were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sen- sual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heli...

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... with the burden. It is this, this endless heat and rousedness of physical sen- sation which keeps the body full and potent, and flushes the mind with... ...an had taken up this striking and original position to create a delightful sen- sation among the ladies. It is quite in the Viennese spirit. There is ... ...now their aim. Their aim is in supreme sensation. They seek the maximum of sen- sation. They seek the reduction of the flesh, the flesh react- ing upo... ...elves with a self-created object. It is self-projection into the self, the sen- suous self satisfied in a projected self. Blessed are the poor in ... ...ease entirely from what we are doing, and from what we have been doing for hun- dreds of years. It is past the time to cease seeking one Infi- nite, i... ... selling and buying. I thought of Como, it must have been wonderful even a hun- dred years ago. Now it is cosmopolitan, the cathedral is like a relic,...

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...small one! O Champ-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to b... ...r and Curate, who also walk bespaded, and in tricolor sash. As many as one hun- dred and fifty thousand workers: nay at certain seasons, as some count... ...ncense-fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hun- dred thousand Patriotic Men; and, twice as good, one hun- dred thousan... ...a huff. But lo, Cha- teau Vieux, swarming all about the barrack-court, has sen- tries at every gate; M. de Malseigne, demanding egress, can- not get i... ... the grand Squares, dauntless, though with loss of forty officers and five hun- dred men: the shattered remnants of Chateau-Vieux are seeking covert. ... ...The soul of Marat is sick with the sight: but what remedy? To erect ‘Eight Hun- 98 The French Revolution—V olume Two dred gibbets, ’ in convenient ro...

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... the students’ dueling-place. We crossed the river and drove up the bank a few hundred yards, then turned to the left, entered a narrow alley, followe... ...ls in the room which I have described, two days in every week duringseven and a half or eight months in every year. This custom had continued in Germa... ...t and rough fighter Go”tz von Berlichingen, abode in after he got out of captivity in the Square Tower of Heilbronn between three hundred and fifty an... ... behind something and stay there until he judged the party’s interest had found another object. I never have seen another dumb creature that was so mo... ...uite evident that the subterranean outlet indeed existed. But the finest thing within the ruin’s limits was a noble linden, which the children said wa... ...ho bought it, from whom, and what he paid for it—from the first buyer down to me, whereby I saw that it had gone steadily up from thirty-five cents to... ...kin is another fraud; nobody could skin a chamois, it is too small. The creature is a humbug in every way, and everything which has been written about...

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...s of many children, so loose and incontinent talkers seldom originate many sen- sible words. King Agis, when some Athenian laughed at their short swor... ... Lacedaemon con- tinued the chief city of all Greece for the space of five hun- dred years, in strict observance of Lycurgus’s laws; in all which time... ...ed, which the pra- etor Petilius having read and perused, made oath in the sen- ate, that, in his opinion, it was not fit for their contents to be mad... ... ten oxen and two sheep; the price of a sheep being ten obols, of an ox, a hun- dred. For the use of money was then infrequent amongst the Romans, but... ...close what no punish- ment could extort;” and assured him then, that three hun- dred Romans, all of the same resolution, lurked about his camp, only w... ...n in our days, the Poplicolae, Messalae, and Valerii, after a lapse of six hun- dred years, acknowledge him as the fountain of their honor. Besides, T... ...ing advised and con- sulted among themselves, made answer, that, as to the sen- tence, they did not see how they could help him, but that they would c... ...led fecials were the most decided, who, on the religious ground, urged the sen- ate that they should lay the whole guilt and penalty of the fact upon ... ...n he and his accom- plices had been thrown out, obtained a decree that six hun- dred of the Athenians that were willing should sail to Sinope and plan...

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...and the Pauper The crowd roared with laughter. The prince picked himself out of the mud, and made fiercely at the sen- try, shouting— “I am the Prince... ...iged to keep moving, for every time he sat down to rest he was soon penetrated to the bone with the cold. All his sen- sations and experiences, as he ... ...his troubles where they would not be scoffed at or doubted; so he told his tale with feeling, forgetting even his hun- ger for the time; and it was re... ...oom—cast thy old eyes about and see if thou canst say which is he.” Hendon glanced up, and experienced a pleasant sen- sation for the first time since... ... pint or two of water, and trudged off toward Westminster, grum- bling at himself for having wasted so much time. Hun- ger helped him to a new plan, n... ...ing with a sort of human bird of paradise—a duke, maybe. Hendon observed to himself that it was hard enough to be sen- tenced to death in the full vig... ...he letters S. L. (for Seditious Libeller), and 198 Mark Twain to remain in prison for life. The severity of this sen- tence was equalled by the savag...

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... the fates of men who come out here with a hundred different projects, for hun- dreds of different reasons -for no reason but restlessness— who come, ... ... the circle of chairs in his dress-clothes like a gigantic, repulsive, and sen- timental bat. “Do away with the beastly cocoons all over the world,” h... ...ward mail boat all right, but had only twenty-four hours in town. Thus the sen- timental Willie could not see very much of them. This did not prevent ... ...ailed to turn up) through a long month of anxious waiting. Prompted by his sen- sitive humanity, Davidson, in the gathering dusk, turned the Sissie’s ... ...ere hiding on board Niclaus’s prau, which could be seen lying on the mud a hun- dred yards or so higher up the creek, the fact is that they van- ished...

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...self in the market, lived on bread and onions, never spent more than three hun- dred francs a year, obliged and disobliged no one, and had never done ... ...portunity to prevail. Nevertheless, their power was not unlimited, and the sen- tence must sooner or later be carried out. The same liberals who, out ... ...t his eyes lowered. “Well, then,” said the lawyer, taking one note of five hun- dred francs and offering the other to the rector, “I will share it wit... ...y, not even that of his wife. Francis Graslin, the son, received about one hun- dred thousand francs. Monsieur de Grandville, to whom Veronique’s gran... ...ngineers-in-ordinary and pupil engineers; and as there are not more than a hun- dred or so of engineers-in-chief, only a limited number of the sub-eng... ...ion families are yearly hoarding at least fifty francs, thus subtracting a hun- dred and fifty millions from current use. The science of po- litical e... ...ow, remakes society.” “He would be sent to the assizes,” said Gerard. “The sen- tence pronounced against Socrates and Jesus Christ would be rendered a...

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...instead of one shilling and sixpence a day, and the warden should have two hun- dred or three hundred pounds instead of eight hundred pounds. What is ... ...eanest thing as is.’ ‘Sink them all for parsons, says I, ’ growled Moody; ‘hun- gry beggars, as never thinks their bellies full till they have robbed ... ...t into this place? And now you send a petition to the bishop, asking for a hun- dred pounds a year! I tell you what, my friends; you are deluded, and ... ...verential stare, and, on the whole, Mr Harding found his retreat well cho- sen. About four o’clock his comfort was disturbed by an enemy in the shape ... ... but I can’t see that those altered circumstances give me a right to eight hun- dred a year. I don’t know whether I ever read John Hiram’s will, but w... ...ould be delighted to get the hospital. To be sure Puddingdale is only four hun- dred, but that would be saving something out of the fire: Mr Harding w...

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...of our exposure to the moon’s exterior atmosphere, and a rather unpleasant sen- sation about the ears and finger-nails and the back of the throat grew...

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...ermanic monarchs had an itch to be called Caesar. The Kaiser of the Austro-Hun- garian empire and the Czar had, so to speak, the prior claim to the ti... ...o we had no better platform weapon than repeating over and over again in a sen- tence the name of Mr. Schnadhorst, and I am not sure that it would not... ...et us not underrate the task before us. Only the disinterested devotion of hun- dreds of thousands of active brains in school, in pulpit, in book and ...

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...y readily trust the travelling merchant with any extravagant sum of money; but I am sure his heart was in the right place. In this mixed world, if you... ...learned, people had been running out between the squalls to visit our two boats. Hundreds of persons, so said re- port, although it fitted ill with ou... ...and knew nothing but that somebody was paddling a canoe, while I was counting his strokes and forgetting the hundreds. I used sometimes to be afraid I...

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...naciously, by ren dering it visible to the bodily eye. I have seen him, a hun dred times, with a pencil and sheet of paper, sketching the facade, th... ... life machinery in slug gish movement appeared to make them only the more sen sible of the ponderous and fat satisfaction of their existence. Peepin... ...ue, I might have con demned them. Had I been judge as well as witness, my sen tence might have been stern as that of destiny itself. But, still, no ... ... might be consid ered as representing the mysticism, or rather the mystic sen suality, of this singular age. The nature of the exhibition that was a... ... a devilish looking ob ject, which the moon had not shone upon for half a hun dred years,—then plunged again, and sullenly returned to its old resti... ... offer up my life. If Kossuth, for example, would pitch the battlefield of Hun garian rights within an easy ride of my abode, and choose a mild, sunn...

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... of the goings-on of the world in which we live, first makes us profoundly sen- sible of the awful parenthesis that had suspended them. O, mighty poet... ...t. Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hun- dred and thirty-one 1 of his operose Commentary on Gen- esis, mention... ...suits. Here was seen, at intervals, that ancient stag who was already nine hun- dred years old, at the least, but possibly a hundred or two more, when... ...fter years of slumber, armed with preternatural power to shake my dreaming sen- sibilities; sometimes, as in the slight case of Miss Fanny on the Bath... ...having, in its wind- ing course, traversed the astonishing distance of one hun- dred and seventy miles.” And this the candid American thinks it fair t... ...ittle parenthe- sis between two still uglier clauses of a tee-totally ugly sen- tence. Whereas with us, their enlightened posterity, to whom they have...