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... to love,” she retorted, closing her eyes; then she turned her head on the pillow and made him an imperative sign to leave the room. Monsieur Graslin ... ...Paris to the first suspension bridge built by an engineer, a member of the Academy of Sciences; a mel- ancholy collapse caused by blunders such as non... ...ld have smothered him. How many men from the Ecoles are to be found in the Academy of Sciences? Pos- sibly two or three. The man of genius develops al...

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... Chamberlain, and the King is here (no doubt incognito), and all the Royal Academy, and Sandow, and Mr. Arnold White. But these famous names do not ap... ...inds play freely about possibilities that would have struck the men of the Academy as outrageous extravagance, and it is in regard to politico-social ... ...ound it. Beside the bed, and to be lit at night by a handy switch over the pillow, is a little clock, its face flush with the wall. The room has no co...

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...cience and Art, The University Correspondent, Na- ture, The Athenaeum, The Academy, and The Author. Smithers remarked the appearance of a note-book, t... ...she did not seem to breathe. He saw that her eyelashes were still wet, the pillow by her cheek was wet. Her white, tear-stained face hurt him…. She wa...

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...ter from the head which it supported, ‘art thou so effeminate as to need a pillow?’ The officer of engineers, whose curious Letters from the Highlands... ...she casts, or doth change her feathers” 197 Sir Walter Scott (R. Holmes’s Academy of Armory, etc.). Spenser has both noun and verb; as in F . Q. i. 5...

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...re closed; that which contains the famous Murillos has been turned into an academy of the fine arts; but the English guide did not think the pictures ... ...tells me he goes to sleep every night with the keys of Gibraltar under his pillow. It is an awful image, and somehow completes the no- tion of the slu...

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...ng a gentle- man. I will write a letter today to the Director of the Royal Academy, and tomorrow he will admit you without any ex- pense to yourself. ... ... T reville, stopping him. “I promised you a letter for the director of the Academy. Are you too proud to accept it, young gentleman?” “No, sir,” said ... ...hing.” Milady made no reply, but turning her beautiful head round upon her pillow, she burst into tears, and uttered heart- breaking sobs. Felton surv... ... with- out parting with the emancipating knife, which I concealed under my pillow. “When I awoke, a fresh meal was served. “This time, in spite of my ... ...e his breast. “My first impulse, on coming to myself, was to feel under my pillow for the knife I had not been able to reach; if it had not been usefu... ...robe fall, and lay down. “I found my knife where I had placed it, under my pillow, and while feigning to sleep, my hand grasped the handle of it convu...

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... had quitted the room above stairs, she had so well covered herself with a pillowbeer which she there found, that her regard to decency was not in the... ...before seen; and while he was endeavouring to compose himself again on his pillow, a screech owl had given him such a serenade at his window, that he ... ...niversal disesteem and hatred The lady had no sooner laid herself on her pillow than the waiting woman returned to the kitchen to regale with some o... ...ercy on him, poor heart! I bepitied him, so I did, when he used to hug his pillow, and call it his dear Madam Sophia. I did all I could to dissuade hi... ...1, 1747. N.B.—Mr. Broughton proposes, with proper assistance, to open an academy at his house in the Haymarket, for the instruction of those who are... ... came from a relation of the lady, yet when that friend to reflec tion, a pillow, had placed the action itself in all its natural black colours befor...

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... game (the innocence of which is only surpassed in the nomenclature of the Academy by that of La Bataille) a passion corresponding to that of the hunt... ...anticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at the Academy, everywhere. Since then, Camille Maupin has written several plays a... ...ll-treated. “They go to work like La Fontaine, when he wanted to enter the Academy,” said Camille. Madame de Rochefide had unbounded power to restrain... ...ad seen her on the night of her illness, and there he laid his head on the pillow where hers had lain. “I am committing follies,” he said, grasping Ca...

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...ed at his face, as it lay there laughing and bitter and indifferent on the pillow, and he 90 could not go away. ‘I don’t suppose you will see very mu... ...rings. ‘Are you sure you were quite comfortable?’ she said, press- ing the pillow. ‘Perfectly,’ he replied coldly. ‘And were you warm? There is no dow... ... the agonised being. The tense body relaxed, the head fell aside, down the pillow. Gerald stood transfixed, his soul echoing in horror. He would move,... ...ed her. This picture she entitled ‘Home.’ It would have done for the Royal Academy. ‘Come with us to tea—do,’ said Ursula, as they ran nearer to the c... ...with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula’s pillow. ‘One gets the greatest joy of all out of really lovely stock- ings,...

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...of old service induced him to refresh and settle the fair semi-slumberer’s pillow, and fix the tar- paulin over her silks and wraps; and bend his head... ...tleman in their yoke. It plighted them over flesh. He talked to her on the pillow, just a few sentences; and, unlike himself, a word of City affairs: ... ...now ‘in contrition of spirit,’ that in formerly opposing the scheme for an Academy, he helped to the hand- ing of our noble language to the rapid repo...

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... but the sentiment is destroyed by its having been six months in the Royal Academy, number 16,136, and by seeing it down among the excursions in the N... ...d be done with it, and fairly face the matter, as I can only do in a walk. Pillow counsel is feverish and tumultuous; one is hardly master of oneself.... ...r seemed to cease. She defended herself by aver- ring that Miss Ponsonby’s pillow was soaked every morning; but if Mary’s heavy eyelids corroborated h...

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... at pleasure. Antiochus had in his youth strongly written in favour of the Academy; in his old age he wrote as much against it; would not, which of th... ...ongst strang- ers; a man may find those, for his money, who will shift his pillow and rub his feet, and will trouble him no more than he would have th... ...lf to nature is to do it most wisely. Oh, what a soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incurios- ity, whereon to repose a well-ordered hea...

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...up abruptly, undressed very quickly in the dark, and had hardly touched my pillow again before I was asleep. But how my mother slept that night I do n... ...lease the half-educated middle-class, glared for a mo- ment and were gone, Academy marbles crumbled to useful lime, a gross multitude of silly statuet...

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...or in former years much of the romance of her life had been in smoothing the pillow of exile for banished conspirators. Her refugees had been very pre... ... of a pretty essay, committed to memory end delivered bye bright girl at an ‘academy;’ it was vague, thin, rambling, a tissue of generalities that gli... ...bservation of their young host at Delmonico’s and in the spacious box at the Academy of Music, where they had privacy and ease, and murmured words cou...

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...hree forward bounds, which would have done him great credit in a gymnastic academy, but became his character of hermit so indifferently that the Scott... ..., and not in- sensible to the power of praise, he reclined his head on the pillow with a more deliberate attempt to repose than he had yet exhibited. ...

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...d delights of the Carnival had so run in his head as to make him leave his pillow long before his usual hour. “Now, my excellent Signor Pastrini,” sai... ...e more such adventures, and I do not despair of seeing you a member of the Academy.” Doubtless Albert was about to discuss seriously his right to the ... ...ho has done nothing to de- serve it,” said Beauchamp; “that is the way the Academy mostly es- The Count of Monte Cristo 388 capes from the dilemma.” ...

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...udy. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes....

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... as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he ju... ...an she loved, and once more all was gladness in her soul, and she lay on the pillow, smiling with happiness. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry; but what could I d... ...tel, ordered supper, and then undressed, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, fell into a sound sleep. Chapter 17 N EXT day at eleven o’clock i... ...nd giving Petritsky, who was lying with ruffled hair and with his nose in the pillow, a prod on the shoulder. Petritsky jumped up suddenly onto his kne... ...said he’d look in again.” And pulling up the rug he flung himself back on the pillow. “Oh, do shut up, Yashvin!” he said, getting furious with Yashvin,... ...ree children, no servant, and scarcely any means. He gets something from the Academy,” she went on briskly, trying to drown the distress that the quee... ...nd had been bought beforehand. The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement... ...scow butler, and has never had any sort of bringing up. When he got into the academy and made his reputation he tried, as he’s no fool, to educate him...

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...ustere, the transgressor softly sobbing. The mother turned her head on the pillow; her tired eyes flamed up instantly with sym pathy and passionate m... ...hem over and over again, and treasured them as pre cious things under her pillow. Then came a day when the strength was gone from the hand, and the m... ...e notice. One mild winter day, as he walked along the streets to ward the Academy, which stood upon a small eminence, surrounded by native growth—som... ... tions are always better than his English: “You walk carelessly toward the academy grove, where you will find me with a lightning steed, elegantly equ... ...able notice. One mild winter day as he walked along the streets toward the Academy, which stood upon a small eminence, sur rounded by native growth—s... ...e future happiness of an untried life.” The people were now rushing to the Academy with impa tient anxiety; the band of music was closely followed by... ...vantageously that I have left for the west. You walk carelessly toward the academy grove, where you will find me with a lightning steed, elegantly equ... ...ds; such a bedroom as I had not seen for years: white counter pane, white pillows, carpeted floor, papered walls, pictures, dressing table, with mirr... ...e got up and visited the artist. I sleep with all these portraits under my pillow every night, so that I can go on studying them as soon as the day da...

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...hey don’t,” said Carey. “They make me wicked!” and she hid her face in the pillow with a great gasp. “My poor Carey!” said the gentle voice. “Oh! I wa... ...cessfully as the maids. “I can’t, mother,” he said, hiding his face on the pillow. “My little boy used to have no secrets from me.” “Men must have sec... ...was to hurry up stairs, and, throwing off her bonnet, bury her face in the pillow. Janet and her aunt both followed, the latter with kind and tender s... ... mind, as he threw himself once more over the senseless form, propped with pillows, and kissed either cheek and the lips. Then suddenly he uttered a l... ...Bonum liancy. Armine was panting under the same deadly oppres- sion on his pillows, and Mother Carey was standing by him, talking to Mr. Graham about ... ...ine, giving lessons in Greek, or paint- ing the crack picture in the Royal Academy . In fact, she would rather prefer to have the whole family on her ... ...for my own public first.” “What will you do with it? Put it into the Royal Academy?” “No, it is not big enough. I thought of offering it to the Works ...

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...ressed them by turns to his languidly beating heart, sunk exhausted on his pillow. They were concerned to find that his reason went astray after this;... ...read as follows: 33 Charles Dickens ‘“Education.—At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta... ...paper?’ ‘—Morning Post, Chronicle, Herald, and Advertiser, re- garding the Academy called Dotheboys Hall at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near ... ...oats and cloaks, and leaving the light and warmth of the town behind them, pillowed themselves against the luggage, and prepared, with many half-suppr... ...s either the one or the other,’ replied Miss La Creevy. ‘Look at the Royal Academy! All those beautiful shiny portraits of gentlemen in black velvet w... ...t, as mere abstract legs, have set themselves up for mod- els at the Royal Academy. It was quite exhilarating to hear the clash and bustle with which ... ...ing on the bed with the reddest face ever seen, cramming the corner of the pillow into his mouth, to prevent his roaring out loud with laughter. He ha... ... had as yet been unconscious of the presence of a sick man propped up with pillows in an easy-chair, who, moving restlessly and impatiently in his sea... ...id Madeline, bending over him. She was so busily employed in arranging the pillows that Nicholas could not see her face, but as she stooped he thought...

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...or another look 49 Joseph Conrad I saw that he had turned his head on the pillow and was staring wistfully out of the window at the sails of a cutter... ...lish. A wild and stormy abode, sometimes, was that confined, shallow-water academy of seamanship from which I launched myself on the wide oceans. My t... ... beds within sound of the sea. I imagine that not one head on those envied pillows was made uneasy by the slightest premonition of the realities of na...

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...dis- covered sitting at a table placed against the opposite wall, her head pillowed upon her arms, and these resting upon the table. Her beautiful lon... ... sum equal to one hundred guineas English; which, having well secured in a pillow-case, she then lashed firmly to the raft. Now this, you know, though... ...arity school; and, in the year 1732, removed to the Royal (or Frederician) Academy. Here he studied the Greek and Latin classics, and formed an intima... ... he sank down against the right side of the chair. I went and arranged his pillows so as to raise and support his head; and, having done this, I said—... ...in order; he was therefore lifted out in our arms, and the bed-clothes and pillows being hastily arranged, he was carried back again. He did not sleep... ...ey a more honorable purpose than by placing it in the coffin, as the final pillow of that immortal head. Upon the style and mode of his funeral, Kant ...

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...me, one of whom was a young woman whose health had given way over her lace pillow, and Rachel was eloquent over the crying evils of the system (everyt... ...ther in heaven, and to the present kindness of the friend who stood by his pillow. The will, which not only Rachel but her mother thought strangely un... ...h havoc of her work that it was always expiated by extra hours, not on her pillow, but at it. These visits of Rachel were considered to encourage the ... ...nce in Rachel’s championship. Hitherto Mrs. Kelland had been nailed to her pillow by the exigencies of Lady Keith’s outfit, and she and her minions ha... ...ll conventional rural delights, around a pretty maiden singing at her lace-pillow; while the other yclept the “Real,” showed a den of thin, wizened, h... ...t, and then came rebellion, and breaking away from home. He studied at the Academy for a few years, but wanted application, and fancied he had begun t...

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...e, in pontificals, with his pyxes and his tools; he ap- proaches the royal pillow; elevates his wafer; mutters or seems to mutter somewhat;—and so (as... ...hemist Berthollet too,—on the part of Monseigneur de Chartres. Had not the Academy of Sciences, with its Baillys, Franklins, Lavoisiers, interfered! B... ...ys a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, “You will see; I shall be in the Academy before you.” (Mercier, Nouveau Paris.) Likely indeed, thou skilfull... ...; nay, on one occasion, as the Queen cannot sleep, he offers to sit by her pillow, and converse a little! (Ibid. ii. 149.) 290 The French Revolution ... ...ons approvingly; will help, were she ready. Spanish Bourbon stirs amid his pillows; from him too, even from him, shall there come help. Lean Pitt, ‘th... ... her very night-gown, nothing saved of her goods except the watch from the pillow: with brotherly despair he flings her in, among the bandboxes, into ... ...d possession, of means or metal, is ruthlessly searched for, in pocket, in pillow and paillasse, and snatched away; red- capped Commissaries entering ...

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...mouth into the form of saying ‘No,’ shook her head, and proceeded to get a pillow into its case. ‘How did it happen?’ ‘Why, Jeremiah, o’ course,’ said... ...id it happen?’ ‘Why, Jeremiah, o’ course,’ said Affery, with an end of the pillow-case between her teeth. ‘Of course he proposed it, but how did it al... ...r marrying each other.’ ‘No more should I,’ said Mrs Flintwinch, tying the pillow tightly in its case. ‘That’s what I mean. When did you begin to thin... ...to think otherwise at all,’ said Mrs Flintwinch. Seeing, as she patted the pillow into its place on the bolster, that he was still looking at her as i... ... the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: ‘He withers away in his prison; I wither away in... ...hat in the parlour window was a blind with the inscription, Mr . Cripples’ Academy; also in another line, Evening Tuition; and behind the blind was a ... ...d herself received her education, such as it was, in Mr Cripples’s evening academy. He returned, with the best will in the world, that Mr Cripples’s b... ...ainters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embod...

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...t me, with the worst Latin scholar that was ever turned out of a classical academy. I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and ... ...er passed through Bertha’s frame, and she returned to her station near the pillow, tacitly implying that she would not leave the room. The eyelids wer... ... had already opened the artery in the long thin neck that lay rigid on the pillow, and I dismissed them, ordering them to remain at a distance till we...

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...ed her cheek. There was a pause. He sunk 49 Charles Dickens back upon his pillow, and looked long and earnestly in his mother’s face. ‘William, Willi... ...h had been hastily cut from near the wounds on her head, streamed over the pillow in jagged and matted locks. Her face bore deep marks of the ill-usag... ...te’s inquiry whether she was in great pain; and, having been raised on the pillow by the nurse, looked vacantly upon the strange countenances that sur... ...pale and sunken cheeks. It was a convulsive effort. She fell back upon her pillow, and covering her scarred and bruised face with her hands, burst int... ...ofessional reputa- tion that Miss Martin possessed. CHAPTER IX—THE DANCING ACADEMY OF ALL THE DANCING ACADEMIES that ever were established, there neve... ... and improving neighbourhood of Gray’s-inn-lane. It was not a dear dancing academy—four-and-sixpence a quarter is decidedly cheap upon the whole. It w... ...our, he began to run in couples in the assembly-room. Such was the dancing academy of Signor Billsmethi, when Mr. Augustus Cooper, of Fetter-lane, fir...

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...izabeth! And there lay the hoary head of good Father Hooper upon the death pillow, with the black veil still swathed about his brow, and reaching down... ...bewil- dered soul could have forgotten, there was a faithful woman at this pillow, who, with averted eyes, would have covered that aged face, which sh... ...ank from one another, in mutual affright, Father Hooper fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corpse, with a faint smile lingering on the lips. Still ve... ...ated him, and with one low, complaining whisper, turned his cheek upon the pillow. He then addressed Dor- 71 Hawthorne othy with his usual sweetness,... ...nother dollar for my extra expenses. He then laid his pocketbook under his pillow, shook hands with me, and advised me to take some biscuit in my bag,... ...nd propriety, that everybody thought her fit to be preceptress of the best academy in the State. But a stranger would have supposed that Mr. Higginbot... ... 106 Twice Told Tales cation, with a classic finish by a year at Gilmanton Academy. After journeying on foot from sunrise till nearly noon of a summer...

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... backward 173 George Eliot from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat backward the white beaver bonnet which... ...g by the fire, saw its red light falling on the old man, propped up on his pillows and bed-rest, with his bony hand holding out the key, and the money... ... Raffles on most occasions kept up the sense of having been educated at an academy, and being able, if he chose, to pass well everywhere; indeed, ther... ...mother, emphatically,—”she is like a dog— she would take their shoes for a pillow and sleep the better.” “Mr. Ladislaw’s shoes, I would,” said Henriet...

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...e neck, was thrown backward from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat back ward the white beaver bonnet whi... ...ng by the fire, saw its red light falling on the old man, propped up on his pillows and bed rest, with his bony hand holding out the key, and the money... .... Raffles on most occasions kept up the sense of having been educated at an academy, and being able, if he chose, to pass well everywhere; indeed, ther... ... mother, emphatically,—“she is like a dog—she would take their shoes for a pillow and sleep the better.” “Mr. Ladislaw’s shoes, I would,” said Henriet...

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... Horace. I think the well of Castaly’s run out. No more the Muses round my pillow haunt. I am fallen once more to the mere proser. God bless you. R. L... ...last year, and walked in the procession to the new. I blush to own I am an Academy boy; it seems modern, and smacks not of the soil. P.P.S. – I enclos... ... beauty; all but love – to any worthy practiser. I sleep upon my art for a pillow; I waken in my art; I am unready for death, because I hate to leave ... ...ng Walter I had unearthed ‘a W.S. that I thought would do’ – it was in the Academy Lane, and he questioned me as to the Signet’s qualifications; fourt... ...t was – you were – his religion. I write by this post to Austin and to the Academy. – Y ours most sincerely, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 299 The Letters ... ..., that I preferred to keep it for another place and make but a note in the Academy. To try to draw my friend at greater length, and say what he was to...

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...d inmates of the Coach diffuse; And when thou’st charm’d our eyes to rest, Pillowing the chin upon the breast, Bid many a dream from thy dominions ... ...n’d? Tired Sentinel! mid fitful starts I nod, And fain would sleep, though pillowed on a clod! - 96 - Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever ... ...hted word — ah! false and recreant wight! Last night as I my weary head did pillow With thoughts of my dissever’d Fair engross’d, Chill Fancy droop... ...1795 (Composed during Illness, and in Absence.) Dim Hour! that sleep’st on pillowing clouds afar, O rise and yoke the Turtles to thy car! Bend o’e... ... clamours hoarse! See! the starting wretch’s head Lies pillow’d on a brother’s corse!) Not yet enslaved, not wholly vil... ...oyal Highness the Princess Charlotte. By Hyman Hurwitz, Master of the Hebrew Academy, Highgate: with a Translation in English Verse, by S. T. Coleridg...

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...mouth into the form of saying ‘No,’ shook her head, and proceeded to get a pillow into its case. ‘How did it happen?’ ‘Why, Jeremiah, o’ course,’ said... ...id it happen?’ ‘Why, Jeremiah, o’ course,’ said Affery, with an end of the pillow-case between her teeth. ‘Of course he proposed it, but how did it al... ...r marrying each other.’ ‘No more should I,’ said Mrs Flintwinch, tying the pillow tightly in its case. ‘That’s what I mean. When did you begin to thin... ...to think otherwise at all,’ said Mrs Flintwinch. Seeing, as she patted the pillow into its place on the bolster, that he was still looking at her as i... ... the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: ‘He withers away in his prison; I wither away in... ...hat in the parlour window was a blind with the inscription, Mr . Cripples’ Academy; also in another line, Evening Tuition; and behind the blind was a ... ...d herself received her education, such as it was, in Mr Cripples’s evening academy. He returned, with the best will in the world, that Mr Cripples’s b... ...ainters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embod...

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...ed her cheek. There was a pause. He sunk 49 Charles Dickens back upon his pillow, and looked long and earnestly in his mother’s face. ‘William, Willi... ...h had been hastily cut from near the wounds on her head, streamed over the pillow in jagged and matted locks. Her face bore deep marks of the ill-usag... ...te’s inquiry whether she was in great pain; and, having been raised on the pillow by the nurse, looked vacantly upon the strange countenances that sur... ...pale and sunken cheeks. It was a convulsive effort. She fell back upon her pillow, and covering her scarred and bruised face with her hands, burst int... ...ofessional reputa- tion that Miss Martin possessed. CHAPTER IX—THE DANCING ACADEMY OF ALL THE DANCING ACADEMIES that ever were established, there neve... ... and improving neighbourhood of Gray’s-inn-lane. It was not a dear dancing academy—four-and-sixpence a quarter is decidedly cheap upon the whole. It w... ...our, he began to run in couples in the assembly-room. Such was the dancing academy of Signor Billsmethi, when Mr. Augustus Cooper, of Fetter-lane, fir... ...t and then into the other, and speaking in a voice like Desdemona with the pillow over her mouth. ‘Your card-case? snuff-box? the key of your lodgings...

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... and bother to me—a native element?” In the morning Clement, raised on his pillows in bed, showed himself highly grateful for the proposal about his y... ... his aunt’ s port- folio, “that’s a stunner! You should work it up for the Academy.” “This kind of thing is better for the purpose,” Mrs. Grinstead sa... ...rinstead, and the Rev. E. C. Underwood, and who is a pupil at Mrs. Edgar’s academy for young gentlemen, was, we are informed, in- volved in the most i...

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...ndness for her never ceased, even after her death. He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his n... ...s. Johnson was not more satisfied with his situ- ation as the master of an academy, than with that of the usher of a school; we need not won- der, the... ...ir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their... ...England, and was employed successively in the capacities of an usher to an academy, a correc- tor of the press, a reviewer, and a writer for a news-pa... ... Boswell’s Life of Johnson ried me out to dine with Mr. Elphinston, at his academy at Kensington. A printer having ac- quired a fortune sufficient to ... ...nto the wheel, and as sleepy as a dor- mouse.’ Mr. Windham having placed a pillow conve- niently to support him, he thanked him for his kindness, and ... ... him, he thanked him for his kindness, and said, ‘That will do,—all that a pillow can do.’ 656 Boswell’s Life of Johnson He requested three things of...

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...ressed them by turns to his languidly beating heart, sunk exhausted on his pillow. They were concerned to find that his reason went astray after this;... ...read as follows: 33 Charles Dickens ‘“Education.—At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta... ...paper?’ ‘—Morning Post, Chronicle, Herald, and Advertiser, re- garding the Academy called Dotheboys Hall at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near ... ...oats and cloaks, and leaving the light and warmth of the town behind them, pillowed themselves against the luggage, and prepared, with many half-suppr... ...s either the one or the other,’ replied Miss La Creevy. ‘Look at the Royal Academy! All those beautiful shiny portraits of gentlemen in black velvet w... ...t, as mere abstract legs, have set themselves up for mod- els at the Royal Academy. It was quite exhilarating to hear the clash and bustle with which ...

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...ere, in pontificals, with his pyxes and his tools; he approaches the royal pillow; elevates his wafer; mutters or seems to mutter somewhat;—and so (as... ...hemist Berthollet too,—on the part of Monseigneur de Chartres. Had not the Academy of Sciences, with its Baillys, Franklins, Lavoisiers, interfered! B... ...ys a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, “You will see; I shall be in the Academy before you.” (Mercier, Nouveau Paris.) Likely indeed, thou skilfull...

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...es which are let down from the roof. Mattresses slip out from one nook and pillows from another. Blankets are added, and the bed is ready. Any over-pa... ...was in consequence obliged to abandon his commis- sion and retire from the Academy. Will that young lady ever again sleep quietly in her bed? I should... ...I feel assured that West Point, taken as a whole, is an excellent military academy, and that young men have gone forth from it, and will go forth from...

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...d to accompany her. Since then she had worked industriously at Colarossi’s Academy, by no means under the delusion that she had talent, but merely to ... ...t’s 139 Maugham room. It was empty. The bed had not been slept in. On the pillow was a note. It’s no good; I can’t help myself. I’ve gone back to him...

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... our old school—poor old Jack!’ exclaimed Evan. ‘Lieutenant in the Cudford Academy!’ the latter rejoined. ‘I walked the distance from London. I had my... ...ck,’ he re- marked; ‘you will hear of me, though hardly as a tutor in this academy.’ Scanning the bundle of notes, without a reflection beyond the tho... ..., and required support. ‘I don’t know,’ she said, turning her cheek to her pillow. ‘What an answer!’ Rose exclaimed. ‘Have you no opinion? What did yo... ... surrendered him. Generous to Evan, she would be just to Rose. Beneath her pillow she found pencil and paper, and with difficulty, scarce seeing her l... ...ntinued uneasy. She turned her wrist and trailed a letter from beneath the pillow. It was from Mrs. Shorne. Juliana knew the contents. She raised it u...

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...e, rail, prop, wainscot, lamb, lath, panel, gable, Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition house, library, Cornice, trellis, pilaster, ba... ... clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood, Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv’d neck and side falling head, His eyes... ...e at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes, And through the sti...

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...st mar- riage, she had laid her coroneted head upon one of the old rectory pillows for a night or so, and, on such occasions all the Plumsteadians had... ...lumstead she had consented to lay her head for two nights on the parsonage pillows, and on the second evening her brother the major was to come over f... ... meaning of the cho- ruses. And as he lay with his head half buried in the pillows, he shouted out long passages, lines from tragic plays by the 386 ... ... have come, and the crowd and the glare and the fashion and the art of the Academy’s great exhibition must therefore re- main unknown to her; but she ...

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... to explain them. In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner.... ... same author {Plin. 1. viii.c.48.}, of some triclinaria, a sort of woollen pillows or cush- ions made use of to lean upon as they reclined upon their ... ...times done, too, by private do- nors. The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta...