Full Text Search Details
...The common names for an axe, for blood, for bamboo, a bamboo knife, a pig, food, entrails, and an oven are taboo in his presence, as the common names ... ... his sleep, his dreams, his anger, the mutual anger of several chiefs, his food, his pleasure in eating, the food and eating of his pi- geons, his ulc... ... hold- ing parliaments, disregarding the king’s proclamations and planting food in the bush, the first step of military prepara- tion. The religious s... ...ary teems with evidence of its abuse. Special words signify the begging of food, of uncooked food, of fish, of pigs, of pigs for travellers, of pigs f... ...themselves far beyond the aver- age of man. Seated in islands very rich in food, the idleness of the many idle would scarce matter; and the provinces ... ...d to the com- mander of the imperial German squadron for assistance in the preservation of good order.” This letter was not deliv- ered until 4 P .M. ...

Full Text Search Details
...We may also suppose, that he wrote memoirs of all that he deemed worthy of preservation. Hav ing set sail from Tyrrhenia and Iberia, they reached Ith... ...the supposed necessity that there must have been manuscripts to ensure the preservation of the poems—the unassisted memory of reciters being neither s... ...p thinking, that the story which at 20 The Odyssey of Homer tributes the preservation of these poems to Lycurgus, is little else than a version of t... ...us this rich inheritance, whole and entire. Whatever were the means of its preservation, let us rather be thankful for the treasury of taste and eloqu... ...f Pylos, some on pointed wood T ransfix’d the fragments, some prepared the food: In friendly throngs they gather to embrace Their unknown guests, and ... ...’d steel, and from the fishy flood Appease the afflictive fierce desire of food.” “‘Whoe’er thou art (the azure goddess cries) Thy conduct ill deserve... ...toops incumbent on the rolling deep. So watery fowl, that seek their fishy food, With wings expanded o’er the foaming flood, Now sailing smooth the le... ...ger and the poor are sent; And what to those we give to Jove is lent. Then food supply, and bathe his fainting limbs Where waving shades obscure the m... ... a polish’d table shines, And a full goblet foams with generous wines; His food a herald bore; and now they fed; And now the rage of craving hunger fl...

Full Text Search Details
...s 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition. On the 5th of November, whi... ...cency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food. The HURGO (for so they call a great lord, as I afterwards learnt) u... ...must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By which th... ...th grave and learned professors, and their several deputies. The clothes and food of the children are plain and simple. They are bred up in the princi... ...biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food. The short time I continued in England, I made a considerable profit... ...e Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin. To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called... ...uld Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 264 perhaps, in point of prudence and self preservation, have put it off to a better opportunity. Having thus answer...

Full Text Search Details
...the word. I might say, rather, that it is spiritualized by a disregard for food, sleep, and all the ordinary comforts, such as they are, of sea life. ... ...he redeeming and ideal aspect of this bread-winning, is the attainment and preservation of the highest possible skill on the part of the crafts- men. ... ...eaman; therefore, apart from the laws, rules, and regulations for the good preservation of his cargo, he was careful of his loading,—or what is techni... ...a whaler going north from her Po- lar cruising ground. There was plenty of food on board, and I don’t know whether the nerves of her passengers were a... ...oral character and recklessness of dis- position. With that sort of spiced food provided for his anxious thought, watchful for strange men, strange be... ...bourers trooping in clumsily round the corners of cargo-sheds to eat their food in peace out of red cotton handkerchiefs had the air of picnicking by ... ...the fortune of their house, the dominion of their world, or only a dole of food for their hunger. If not always in the hot mood to smash, he is always...

Full Text Search Details
...by breathless foliage; even the gloom was hot; the little insects that are food for fish tried a flight and fell on the water’s surface, as if panting... ...e. Charles, when he says of him that he is a ‘gentleman in a good state of preservation,’ means to be ironical. I doubt whether Charles at fifty would...

Full Text Search Details
... pensions would presently be very busy thinking how they were going to get food when the butcher and baker insisted upon cash. It would be only with c... ... payments would be incidental. And land- owning peasants growing their own food would carry on, and small cultivating occupiers, who could easily fall... ...lex- ity and on the verge of frantic panic—although there was just as much food to be eaten, just as many houses to live in, and just as much work nee... ...ervice or the making of munitions to productive work, to the production of food and necessary things, and to the restoration of that export trade whic... ...s investments have been set off by overseas war debts, is essential to the food supply. There will be coming back into civil life, not merely thou- sa... ...over- ride the profession. It is extraordinary how complete has been their preservation of barbaric conceptions. Even the doctor is now largely emanci...

Full Text Search Details
...escribable expression of her countenance when I told her that I had had no food since morning. * * * There was pity in her glance at me, and a fiery i... ...as on—is easily dried; and it needed ablution as much as did his skin. His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush... ...tite. He eats no candies; gets no lumps of loaf sugar; always relishes his food; cries but little, for nobody cares for his crying; learns to esteem h... ...that day, her favorite mode of punishing me, namely , making me go without food all day— that is, from after breakfast. The first hour or two after di... ...scribable expression of her countenance, when I told her that I had had no food since morning; and that Aunt Katy said she “meant to starve the life o... ...try for a living. To this fact the dear lady, no doubt, owed the excellent preservation of her natural good- ness of heart, for slavery can change a s...

Full Text Search Details
... most discerning head. ’Tis an old maxim in the schools, That vanity’s the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a b... ... That fly, and leave no marks behind? Does not the body thrive and grow By food of twenty years ago? And, had it not been still supplied, It must a th... ...and times have died. Then, who with reason can maintain That no effects of food remain? And, is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the min... ...e basest tongue To prove I did my neighbour wrong; Or ever went to seek my food By rapine, theft, or thirst of blood. The ass approaching next, confes... ...ce: And, when his medicines do no good, Supports their minds with heavenly food. At which, however well intended, He hears the clergy are offended; An... ... times more than ever the wisdom of our age thought fit to venture for the preservation of Christianity, there is no rea son we should be at so great...

Full Text Search Details
...time of a famine each Roman, to the number of 300,000, brought him a day’s food, lest he should suffer want. The statue was shown even in the time of ... ...ly huntsmen brought in the salmon, the roe, and the deer that formed their food, and the ladies gathered the flowering heather, over which soft skins ... ...were too feeble to fly, and would not come into the Capitol to consume the food that might maintain fighting men; but most of them 41 Yo n g e were f... ...in their extremity were resolved not to transgress any sacred rule. Though food daily became more scarce and starvation was fast approaching, not one ... ...self at a banquet with everything that could delight his senses, delicious food, costly wine, flowers, perfumes, music; but with a sword with the poin... ...ats, after having endured the fire six hours. Nelson him- self wrote: ‘The preservation of the crew seems little short of a miracle. I never read such...

Full Text Search Details
... duel, were sitting on drums. Bits of paper that had contained 27 Tolstoy food, cigarette stumps, and empty bottles, lat scattered around them. The o... ...n; that they retained their arms, and that the interpreter was giving them food and tea. Hadji Murad shook his head in doubt, and after un- dressin... ... slowly and steadily , cutting down forests and destroying the supplies of food, the Caucasus would have been subjugated long ago. I attribute Hadji M... ...to the enemy’ s territory by means of felling forests and de- stroying the food supplies was Ermolov’s and Velyaminov’ s plan, and was quite contrary ... ...t to believe the plan of a slow movement by felling forests and destroying food sup- plies to have been his own would have necessitated hid- ing the f... ...s, poisonous spiders, or wolves—was as natural an instinct as that of self-preservation. The inhabitants of the aoul were confronted by the choice ...

Full Text Search Details
...g- ging alms: a thousand carriages, and wains, cars, come tumbling in with Food, with young Rusticity, and other Raw Produce, inanimate or animate, an... ...like sowing, in successive tilths and wider-spreading har- vests, bringing food and plenteous increase to all Time.” In such wise does Teufelsdrockh d... ...The hungry young,” he says, “looked up to their spiritual Nurses; and, for food, were bidden eat the east-wind. What vain jargon of controversial Meta... ...enough overturning the whole old system of Society; and, for Feudalism and Preservation of the Game, preparing us, by indirect but sure methods, Indus... ...the question once struck him with entire force: For what?—Beym Himmel! For Food and Warmth! And are Food and Warmth nowhere else, in the whole wide Un... ...s- sivity;” but of useful, reasonable Activity, essential to the former as Food to Hunger, nothing granted: till at length, in this wild Pilgrimage, h...

Full Text Search Details
...l. Although I had never before thought of providing anything in the way of food for our expedition, as I fully relied upon the fruits of the island to... ...ould not think of descending the mountain on the Nukuheva side in quest of food. Should we for this purpose be induced to re- trace our steps, we shou... ...ved the indica- tions it gave of Toby’s foresight in laying in a supply of food for the expedition. I eagerly inquired what quantity he had brought wi... ...w always dwelt beneath the shadows of those trees which supplied them with food. We wandered along, casting eager glances into every bush we passed, u... ...to break our long fast, it being now twenty-four hours since we had tasted food. Accordingly our day’s ration was brought out, and seating ourselves o... ...een taken. One of the three I distinctly saw. It was in a state of perfect preservation, and from the slight glimpse I had of it, seemed to have been ...

Full Text Search Details
... inmates of the cabin what was the state of things, and to carry them some food, though at the expense of many falls and severe blows; and almost all ... ... almost all of them were too faint or nauseated to be able to swallow such food as could survive the transport under such circumstances. Y et high-spi... ...rs.’ Lanty was engaged in listening to a moan from his foster- brother for food, and Hebert joined in observing that they might as well be sacrificed ... ...hers were far too anxious to care 66 A Modern Telemachus much about their food. A much larger number of Cabeleyzes came streaming into the forum of t... ...the sea. This was a much severer ef- fort, but by this time immediate self-preservation had be- come the only thought, and happily both wind and the v... ...Was he utterly forsaken? It was growing late in the day, and he had had no food for many hours. Was he to be neglected and starved? At last he heard s...

Full Text Search Details
...with its opposite. For, after all, we are vessels of a very limited content. Not all men can read all books; it is only in a chosen few that any man w... ...nd dexterous use of what qualities we have, the proportion of one part to another and to the whole, the elision of the useless, the ac- centuation of ... ...Purists may suggest it would have been better so. I am not of that mind. The tale seems to have given much pleasure, and it brought (or, was the means...

Full Text Search Details
... to cut one another’s throats? PISTOL: Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on! NYM: You’ll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at bet... ...e that man, Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care And tender preservation of our person, Would have him punished. And now to our Frenc... ..., To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck! Boy: And that’s but unwholesome food they say. Act II, scene iii 23 PISTOL: Touch her soft mouth, and m...

Full Text Search Details
...wished to know those of the other two; but they kept silence and ate their food with the attention which recluses appear to give to every detail of a ... ...ive in her robust health, in the extraordi- nary phenomena of her physical preservation, a divine life, and a species of ignorance of the earthly exis... ...same day. I was almost as touched as you; and he asked me for means to get food on his jour- ney. Well, well, time will show!’ These remarks of Bordin... ...recious parts of my life,—used it up in sterile toil for my own individual preservation. No man at the age of fifty could spring from that obscure, re... ...woman Bryond, assisted by her maid Godard, prepared with her own hands the food of these men. She had already filled a loft with hay, and there the pr... ...rden. Both were children abandoned by their parents to whom the widow gave food for wages,— and what food! The lad, whom Godefroid caught a glimpse of... ....” “Monsieur, it isn’t that I want to interfere, but I must say, comparing food with food, you’d do much better to dine in the rue de Tournon; you nee...

Full Text Search Details
...with Fraulein Hedwig, and the stranger, know- ing no German, had eaten his food in silence. Philip, observing that he wore a pale blue tie, had on tha... .... “ Y ou’re English, aren’t you?” “Y es.” 127 W. Somerset Maugham “Is the food always as bad it was last night?” “It’s always about the same.” “Beast... ...“Beastly , isn’t it?” “Beastly . ” Philip had found nothing wrong with the food at all, and in fact had eaten it in large quantities with appetite and... ...ht some ham and a couple of mince pies and went back to Barnes. He ate his food in his lonely little room and spent the evening with a book. His depre... ...business of mine. But art is a luxury . Men attach importance only to self-preservation and the propagation of their species. It is only when these 2... ...the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.” 242 Of Human Bondage C... ...and and the individual on the other: each is an organism striving for self-preservation. It is might against might. I stand alone, bound to accept so-... ... the rest I counter its might with my wiliness. It makes laws for its self-preservation, and if I break them it imprisons or kills me: it has the migh... ...ociety stood on one side, an organism with its own laws of growth and self-preservation, while the indi- vidual stood on the other . The actions which...

Full Text Search Details
...ibit a brilliancy which was almost a by-word, opened his mouth only to put food into it. Mrs. Strickland did not talk much, but she had a pleasant gif... ...hrough the Park. “That was a very nice party ,” I said. “Did you think the food was good? I told her that if she wanted writers she must feed them wel... ...e pleasant; the table looked nice, the two maids were trim and comely; the food was well cooked. It was impossible not to see that Mrs. Strickland was... ...in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. It is the policeman in all our hearts, set there to watch tha... ... ate with appetite, but was indifferent to what he ate; to him it was only food that he devoured to still the pangs of hun- ger; and when no food was ... ...cy with the sick man moved her strangely . She raised his head to give him food, and it was heavy against her hand; when she had fed him she wiped his...

Full Text Search Details
...f pouring out all his reflec- tions and feelings to his sisters, and their preservation of his letters, have left much more on record of these persona... ...to reward him for the trouble of coming so far. ‘The constant sense of his preservation from that great danger really prevents my feeling so acutely p... ...s wanted; but I live here so qui- etly, that I have little (comparatively) food for some special faults. Good-bye, my dear Father, ‘Your affectionate ... ..., always smoking, a mass of blankets, his wigwam sort of place filthy; his food ditto; but then he is probably intelligent, hospitable, and not insens... ...owledge. What was the manna in the wilderness? he began. He thought it was food that angels actually lived upon, and quoted the verse in the Psalm rea... ...d upon, and quoted the verse in the Psalm readily, “So man did eat angel’s food.” So I took him into the whole question of the spiritual body; the var... ...ly passed from the carnal material view of life in heaven, and the idea of food for the support of the spiritual body, and the capacity for receiving ...

Full Text Search Details
...ern poets in the purity of his text, he is more fortunate than many in the preservation of his manuscripts. These have not, as regards a fair proporti... ...eet voice and eyes, from savage men, _80 His rest and food. Nature’s most secret steps He like her shadow has pursued, where’er T... ...artake _100 From his innocuous hand his bloodless food, Lured by the gentle meaning of his looks, And the wild antelope, that... ...rilling secrets of the birth of time. Meanwhile an Arab maiden brought his food, Her daily portion, from her father’s tent, ... ...ike thunder-stricken dragons, for a space Left the torn human heart, their food and dwelling-place. 14 14 14 14 14. T ruth’s deathless voice pauses am... ...t strew the autumnal gale; Poison, a snake in flowers, beneath the veil Of food and mirth, hiding his mortal head; And, without whom all these might n...