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...pictured it. We were now on those great plains which stretch unbroken to the Rocky Mountains. The country was flat like Holland, but far from being du... ...ugh these sad mountains, or 24 Across the Plains over the main ridge of the Rockies, which is a fair match to them for misery of aspect. Hour after h... ...to admit the moonshine direct, and only a diffused glimmer whitened the tall rocks and relieved the blackness of the pines. A hoarse clamour filled th... ...ill nearer, you will come upon a space of open down, a hamlet, a haven among rocks, a world of surge and screaming sea-gulls. Such scenes are very sim... ...ly the flame gingerly to one of the tassels. The tree went off simply like a rocket; in three seconds it was a roaring pillar of fire. Close by I coul... ...ion of misconduct and dishonour. In each, we miss the per- sonal poetry, the enchanted atmosphere, that rainbow work of fancy that clothes what is nak...

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... have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that boun... ...ices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty a... ...n the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or trans versely upon other trees. The path, as yo... ...y noon when I arrived at the top of the ascent. For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. A mist covered both that and the surr... ...ly two hours in crossing it. The oppo site mountain is a bare perpendicular rock. From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, a... ... any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me. But I was enchanted by the appear ance of the hut; here the snow and rain could no... ...d man again took up the instrument which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning. So soon as he had finished, the youth began,...

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...ppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare v... ...o History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- known agen... ...despicable firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket-wise, in successive beautiful bursts of splendor, each growing natur... ...once only: for as your Congreve needs a new case or wrappage for every new rocket, so 99 Thomas Carlyle each human heart can properly exhibit but one... ...e arena of joyous or mournful experi- ences; if perhaps the cradle we were rocked in still stands there, if our Loving ones still dwell there, if our ... ...severe therein while life or faculty is left. To me also, entangled in the enchanted forests, demon-peopled, doleful of sight and of sound, it was giv...

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...a walk!” “Say — if you give me much more of your sass I’ll take and bounce a rock off’n your head.” “Oh, of course you will.” “Well I will.” “Well w... ...r 23 far and wide, washing even to the bases of isolated and incorruptible rocks like Sid and Mary. But now every sound ceased suddenly, with the su... ...f. He come along one day, and he see she was a witching him, so he took up a rock, and if she hadn’t dodged, he’d a got her. Well, that very night he ... ...nce. Last time, you kep’ me a meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says ‘Dern that cat!’ and so I hove a brick through his ... ...she has had such bright dreams. How fairy like does everything appear to her enchanted vision! Each new scene is more charming than the last. But afte... ...ere.” A groan escaped from poor Potter, and he put his face in his hands and rocked his body softly to and fro, while a painful silence reigned in the...

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...ause, Mirkwood Mere. There stood, in former times, a solitary tower upon a rock almost surrounded by the water, which had acquired the name of the Str... ...n the crystal pool, Headand and bank lay fair and cool; The weather-tinted rock and tower, Each drooping tree, each fairy flower, So true, so soft, th... ... gar- dens of Alcina; yet wanted not the ‘Due Donzellette Garrule’ of that enchanted paradise, for upon the green aforesaid two bare-legged damsels, e... ...ey began to despair of gaining entrance into this soli- tary and seemingly enchanted mansion, when a, man advanced up one of the garden alleys, where ... ...mes hid- den in copse. The eye might be delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and there rose from the dell with mas- sive or spiry fron... ...ve been ever lapis offensionis, et petra scandali, a stumbling-block and a rock of offence to the Lowland vicinage—he discomfited them, I say, when th... ...was ex- tremely steep and rugged, winded up a chasm between two tremendous rocks, following the passage which a foaming stream, that brawled far below...

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...er, for they concluded they had taken the right course in carrying him off enchanted on the ox-cart, as has been described in the First Part of this g... ...en all this would be lavender, if we had not to reckon with Yanguesans and enchanted Moors.” “I know well enough, husband,” said Teresa, “that squires... ...e in an ox-cart, shut up in a cage, in which he persuaded him- self he was enchanted, and the poor creature was in such a state that the mother that b... ...ly. The pack-saddle being secured, as Don Quixote was about to lift up his enchanted mistress in his arms and put her upon her beast, the lady, gettin... ...ote in a weak and faint voice, “hush and utter no blasphemies against that enchanted lady; for I alone am to blame for her misfortune and hard fate; h... ...d that my beauty may soften thee; for the tears of beauty in distress turn rocks into cotton and tigers into ewes. Lay on to that hide of thine, thou ... ...an ass loaded with gold goes lightly up a mountain,’ and that ‘gifts break rocks,’ and ‘praying to God and plying the hammer,’ and that ‘one “take” is... ... Thy enterprises speed, Didst thou the light mid Libya’s sands Or Jaca’s rocks first see? Did scaly serpents give thee suck? Who nursed thee when a... ...called the great “Alone.” Manchegan Nero, look not down From thy Tarpeian Rock Upon this burning heart, nor add The fuel of thy wrath. A virgin soft...

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...el, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly ... ... patient work of countless ages. O.M. You could make the engine out of the rocks them selves? Y.M. Yes, a brittle one and not valuable. O.M. You woul... ... the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built—but along with a ... ...gic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which nothing within the rock it self had either power to remove or any desire to remove. Will yo... ... Y.M. Y es. I have written it down; “Prejudices which noth ing within the rock itself had either power to remove or any desire to remove.” Go on. O.... ...eat river from Para to the sources of the Madeira, through the heart of an enchanted land, a land wastefully rich in tropical wonders, a romantic land...

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..., wrestling, leap ing, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, some times by turns, and s... ...y of the engine room, comparing notes in whispers. After throwing up a few rockets and firing signal guns in the hope of being hailed from the land, o... ...rror on the pilot’s part, were the cause. We were surrounded by banks, and rocks, and shoals of all kinds, but had American Notes – Dickens 24 happi... ...r there, in all changes of the winds and tides; no driving ashore upon the rocks, or slipping your cables and running out to sea, there: Peace — Peace... ..., and was drifting nobody knew where. But even in this chamber there was a rocking chair. It would be impossible to get on anywhere, in America, witho... ...d you speak? Say that again, will you?’ He was always wide awake, like the enchanted bride who drove her hus band frantic; always restless; always th... ...y seem to vegetate in fire. It is such a sight as we read of in legends of enchanted forests: saving that it is sad to see these noble works wasting a... ... lessened in the distance, during the ten memorable days we passed on that Enchanted Ground! What voices spoke from out the thundering water; what fac...

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...es during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon 16 The Talisman that grea... ...n my land cold often converts the water itself into a substance as hard as rock. Let us speak of this no longer, for the thoughts of the calm, clear, ... ...ourney, which he did by observing minute marks and bearings of the distant rocks, to a ridge of which they were gradually approaching. For a little ti... ...ty of your great Sultan, who comes hither to make conquests of deserts and rocks, and dispute the possession of them with those who have tenfold numbe... ...the surface of the country, without changing its sterile character. Sharp, rocky eminences began to rise around them, and, in a short time, deep decli... ...t Cothrob demanded, and in an instant the sisters were trans- ported to an enchanted castle on the mountains of Tugrut, in Kurdistan, and were never a... ..., it makes me laugh! By Saint Louis, it reminds me of Blondel’s tale of an enchanted castle, where the destined knight was with- stood successively in...

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... eloquently-rolling eyes to a crag described in illuminated letters as the Rock of Ages; and against the unshaded windows two rocking-chairs and a sew... ...she sat down, with an air of obviously-assumed indifference, in one of the rocking-chairs near the window; and a moment later the shop-door opened and... ...ing the cups and plates, and putting them away in a cupboard, she drew her rocking-chair to the lamp and sat down to a heap of mending. Evelina, meanw... ...ious exclamations, and Evelina re- turned with Mr. Ramy. Ann Eliza’s heart rocked like a boat in a heavy sea, and the dress-maker’s eyes, distended wi... ... they received an occa- sional evening visit, and Miss Mellins was clearly enchanted at the opportunity of pouring her latest tale into a new ear. As ... ...ing shrubberies, past grass-banks sprinkled with lilac crocuses, and under rocks on which the forsythia lay like sudden sunshine. Everything about her... ...ify Providence. A few days later Mr. Ramy appeared with a suggestion which enchanted Evelina. He had gone the day before to see his friend, Mrs. Hochm...

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...She, for the future of her strength convinced. And that her honour was a rock, or mole, Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any k... ...ts; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a ne... ...he sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...ges did understand, But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow, And rocking in his hammock, long’d for land, His headache being increased... ...e, and bear More than can be believed, or even thought, And stand like rocks the tempest’s wear and tear; And hardship still has been the sail... ...he put all coronets into commotion: At seventeen, too, the world was still enchanted With the new Venus of their brilliant ocean: At eighteen,...

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...rthur. That is the Lady of the lake, said Merlin; and within that lake is a rock, and therein is as fair a place as any on earth, and richly beseen, ... ...ad presence of mind enough not to mention it. They were so troubled about my enchanted clothes that they were mightily relieved, at last, when old Mer... ... We must camp, of course. I found a good shelter for the demoiselle under a rock, and went off and found an other for myself. But I was obliged to r... ...elting back to me with a “Hello, Hank!” that was music of the spheres to my enchanted ear. She got three dollars a week, but she was worth it. I coul... ...castle’s foundations, and mainly were small cells hollowed out of the living rock. Some of these cells had no light at all. In one of them was a woman... ...ever seen each other since. Here they were, kenneled like toads in the same rock; they had passed nine pitch dark years within fifty feet of each oth... ...nd during many moments she was lost in thought and silent. Then: “It was not enchanted aforetime,” she said in a musing fashion, as if to herself. “An... ...how strange is this marvel, and how awful — that to the one perception it is enchanted and dight in a base and shameful aspect; yet to the perception... ... in a base and shameful aspect; yet to the perception of the other it is not enchanted, hath suffered no change, but stands firm and stately still, g...

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...he bay was occupied by all hands in catching bait. This bait was a kind of rock- fish, of a beautiful red gold color, and about the size of an ordinar... ...n gathering abalones, which Moran declared were delicious eating, from the rocks left bare by the tide. But nothing could have ex- ceeded the loneline... ...blazing. “This thing is—” The “Bertha” came suddenly down to an easy keel, rocking in that glassy sea as if in a tide rip. The deck was awash with oil... ...k to her keel again, the spilled oil spouting from her scuppers, the masts rock- ing, the water churning and splashing from her sides. And that was al... ...e’ll float. We can dig away around the bows here, make fast a line to that rock out yonder, and warp her off at next high tide. Hello! who’s this?” 7... ...eads, striated with the mirage in the morning, the coruscating sunset, the enchanted mystery of the purple night, with its sheen of stars and riding m...

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...o the Moun- tain as a ship drifts to a whirlpool, and was caught among the rocks, torn up and multiplied, to sweep back over the village in rain and d... ...nd a few rows of potatoes strayed vaguely into the adjoining wilderness of rock and fern. Charity could not recall her first sight of the house. She h... ...le affair was to her, and hard as she found it to understand why he paused enchanted before certain neglected and paintless houses, while others, refu... ...ched on queerly flavoured things, while Harney, leaning back in a crippled rocking-chair, smoked cigarettes between the courses and poured into Charit... ... you never seen any good fireworks?” “Miss Hatchard always sends up lovely rockets on the Fourth,” she answered doubtfully. “Oh——” his contempt was un... ...ther. Didn’t you notice that big raft we passed? It’s wonderful to see the rockets completing their orbits down under one’s feet.” She said nothing, a...

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...M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Beechcroft At Rockstone BEECHCROFT AT ROCKSTONE by Charlotte M Yonge CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I... ...a’s leg and three ribs are broken. Not dangerous. That is 5 Beechcroft At Rockstone all it says; and mamma is going out to him directly.’ ‘I was quit... ...eyes at the kindness of her brothers, and Harry was quite 7 Beechcroft At Rockstone satisfied that his uncle would be a far better escort than him- s... ...s long letters showed warm appreciation of this pleasant guest, who seemed enchanted with the spot. Next, Mrs. White’s sagacity began to suspect his o...

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...med emphatically, “Damn!” Chapter II U ncomfortable as the night, with its rocking move ment, and salt smells, may have been, and in one case undoubte... ...ughby, whose discomfort as he listened was manifested by a slight movement rocking of his body, said awkwardly, “Oh, surely, Helen, a little religion ... ...showed that she belonged to the lower orders; neverthe- less she took up a rock-like position, looking about her to see that no gentry were near befor... ...e autumn sun, and the whole of England, from the bald moors to the Cornish rocks, was lit up from dawn to sunset, and showed in stretches of yellow, g... ...btful whether the ship would ever run against any of those wrinkled little rocks again. But, on the other hand, an immense dignity had descended upon ... ...But—let me see—what happened? Well, riding, lessons, sisters. There was an enchanted rubbish heap, I remember, where all kinds of queer things happene... ...ur. Her judgment was correct, and when she shut the door Rachel entered an enchanted place, where the poets sang and things fell into their right prop...

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...e wits of the legal profession declared that he had been worn against that rock—Rupt is obviously de- rived from rupes. Scientific students of social ... ..., of which the top should be reached by a path three feet wide through the rock- work, where periwinkles would grow, iris, clematis, ivy, hon- eysuckl... ... Albert was a man of genius, of pro- found politics. The commercial world, enchanted at the suc- cess of the Review, had to pay up only three-tenths o... ...at the most exacting fancy can de- mand of mountains and rivers, lakes and rocks, brooks and pastures, trees and torrents. Here are austere solitudes ... ...e excursion for himself and his friend. When Rodolphe, sitting on a fallen rock on the shore, could no longer see Leopold’s boat, he turned to examine... ...ehind him, and, finding himself in a sunk road, he climbed to the top of a rock to leave the road free. Of course he looked at the approaching carriag... ... “O mia cara diva, keep up your music, exercise your voice, practise. I am enchanted with the coincidence of employments and hours by which, though se...

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...o hear of Royalist Camp of Jales: Jales moun- tain-girdled Plain, amid the rocks of the Cevennes; whence Royalism, as is feared and hoped, may dash do... ...nd field; roaming far out, obscure, as King’s spial, or sitting sealed up, enchanted in Bastille; fencing, pamphle- teering, scheming and struggling f... ...lourishes of drums and trumpets are something: but think of an ‘artificial Rock fifty feet high, ’ all cut into crag-steps, not without the similitude... ...ave been spared. But fancy then the banners all placed on the steps of the Rock; high-mass chaunted; and the civic oath of fifty thousand: with what v... ...one lay in the other, the one was the other minus Time; even as Hannibal’s rock-rending vinegar lay in the sweet new wine. That sweet Federation was o... ...things depended on that one man! He is as a ship suddenly shivered on sunk rocks: much swims on the waste waters, far from help. BOOK 2.IV. VARENNES C... ...ne. Angry buz and simmer; uneasy tossing and moaning of a huge France, all enchanted, spell-bound by unmarching Constitution, into frightful conscious... ...he Logographe’ in the Reporter’s- Box of a Journalist: which is beyond the enchanted Con- stitutional Circuit, separated from it by a rail. To such Lo...

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...et. Desperate pilots, they run their sea-sick, weary bark upon the dashing rocks. It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realis... ...culties; and grandfather Wil- liam can retire upon occasion into the green enchanted for- est of his boyhood. The unfading boyishness of hope and its ... ...arrying burthens on their heads; of tropical effects, with canes and naked rock and sunlight; of the relief of cypresses; of the troubled, busy-lookin... ...and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours: it is they that make women beautiful or fossils interest... ...n skirmish by the hour with a stationary coal-scuttle; in the midst of the enchanted pleasance, he can see, without sensible shock, the gardener sober... ...ooner or later my spoon would lay open the secret tabernacle of the golden rock. There, might some miniature Red Beard await his hour; there, might on... ...n, shaking the dells with laughter and strik- ing out high echoes from the rock; the tune of moving feet in the lamplit city, or on the smooth ballroo...

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... of the compass card. Your Landfall, be it a peculiarly-shaped mountain, a rocky headland, or a stretch of sand-dunes, you meet at first with a single... ...heading exactly the same way, as if each had meditated breaking out of the enchanted circle at a different point of the compass. But the spell of the ... .... Katherine’s Dock, lying overshadowed and black like a quiet pool amongst rocky crags, through the venerable and sympathetic London Docks, with not a... ... like those lands where the victorious nations of mankind have taken root, rock- ing their cradles and setting up their gravestones. He—man or people ... ... sides subsided sleepily with a low wash, as if playing about an immovable rock. Her bulwarks were gone fore and aft, and one saw her bare deck low-ly... ...for the Mediterranean sailors that fair-haired sirens sang among the black rocks seething in white foam and mysterious voices spoke in the darkness ab...