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...nd wish to take the lower one, the towing path, before they had gone three hun- dred yards. So Lewisham had to find a place fit for her de- scent, whe... ... so far—always will be. T remendous idea—that struggle for existence. Only sen- sible theory you’ve got hold of, Lewisham. Woman who isn’t fighting sq... ...he earth, to over- rate the abundance of “decent things” yielding from one hun- dred and fifty to three hundred a year, and to disregard the competiti... ... of that all the time. Once he had made that step, he moved swiftly. Not a hun- dred paces before the struggle was over, and he had plunged headlong i... ... and sat down upon the little bedroom chair. She turned to him and began a sen- tence. “I,” she said, and stopped, with an impatient gesture of her ha...

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...instead of giving her an unlimited order on his banker, or even putting an hun- dred pounds bank-bill into her hands, gave her only ten guin- eas, and... ...unk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sen- tence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; a... ... publication which is shortly to come out, in three duodecimo volumes, two hun- dred and seventy-six pages in each, with a frontispiece to the first, ... ...ot always secure the most valuable fruits. The pinery had yielded only one hun- dred in the last year. Mr. Allen, he supposed, must feel these inconve... ...g; each found her greatest safety in silence, and few and trivial were the sen- tences exchanged while they remained upstairs, Catherine in busy agita...

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...of golden Spain,” etc. The gloomy vigor of this poem, running to about six hun- dred lines, and serving as a powerful foil, to use a painter’s word, t... ...w lines of his writing. The doctor made Lousteau smile by showing him this sen- tence on the first page: “What makes the populace dangerous is that it... ...id the little old man. “But she has happiness!” said Madame de la Baudraye sen- tentiously. “No,” said the master of the house, lighting his candle to... ...fluctuating earnings of the following months, that he could no more find a hun- dred francs on his chimney-piece now, when he was making seven or eigh... ...ight thousand francs a year—I will write theatrical articles.—With fifteen hun- dred francs a month we shall be as rich as Rothschild.—Be quite easy. ...

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...t she had read them. “Has he ever been in love?” asked Helen, who had cho- sen a seat. This was unexpectedly to the point. “His heart’s a piece of old... ... want—” She did not know what she wanted, so that she could not finish the sen- tence; but her lip quivered. But it seemed that Mrs. Dalloway was able... ...his study. The sleeping politician was left in Rachel’s charge. She read a sen- tence, and took a look at him. In sleep he looked like a coat hanging ... ... early morning, a few hours of silence intervened. One could almost hear a hun- dred people breathing deeply, and however wakeful and restless it woul... ...in asking a woman to marry him, considering that he made no more than five hun- dred a year at the Bar, owned no private means, and had an invalid sis... ...le, so far as style goes, that’s ever been invented,” he continued. “Every sen- tence is practically perfect, and the wit—” “Ugly in body, repulsive i... ... idea—the idea of being a gentleman. He manages to exist at Cambridge on a hun- dred pounds a year. He has a coat; it was once a very good coat. But t... ...el of the monks. It was a profound cool place where they had said Mass for hun- dreds of years, and done penance in the cold moonlight, and worshipped... ...to be vilely uncomfortable.” For some time Rachel made no reply; but every sen- tence Helen spoke increased her bitterness. At last she broke out— “Th...

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...I was penetrated with gratitude and respect for the generous priest; I was sen- sible of my superiority, but scorned to repay his hospitality by takin... ...so disposed. It was a thousand to one but he was sending me to perish with hun- ger, or become a villain; but all this was foreign to his purpose; he ... ...hear the bells of a procession sound without shuddering with horror; these sen- sations soon wore off in great cities, but frequently returned 65 Rou... ..., which my high-flown imagination had ever pictured in extremes, making me sen- 88 The Confessions sible that the enthusiasm of sublime virtues is of... ...eurre: the Archimandrite designing to re-enter Germany, and return through Hun- gary or Poland to his own country. This would have been a prodigious t... ...t no situation was procured. Meantime, I began to be necessitated; for the hun- dred livres with which I had commenced my journey could not last much ... ...ed each other; even jealousy and rivalship submitting to the more powerful sen- timent with which she inspired them, and I never saw any of those who ... ...g condemned this plan, thought that, as a citizen, and a member of the two hun- dred, he might give his advice, at large, and therefore, did so in thi... ... was far from be- ing rich, and all the salary he could offer me was eight hun- dred livres, which, with infinite regret, I refused; since it was insu...

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...ars, and begot sons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hun- dred and ten years, and he died. 15 And Malaleel lived sixty- ve years... ...rs, and begot sons and daugh- ters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hun- dred and sixty-two years, and he died. 21 And Henoch lived sixty- ve y... ...rs, and begot sons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Henoch were three hun- dred and sixty- ve years. 24 And he walked with God, and was seen no m... ... of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant. 28 And Noe lived after the ood three hun- dred and fty years. 29 And all his days were in the whole nine hundre... ... money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hun- dred sicles of silver, of common current money. 17 And the eld that b... ...And the Lord spoke to Moses, 23 Saying: Take spices, of principal and cho- sen myrrh ve hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hu... ...r Bethchar. 12 And Samuel took a stone, and laid it be- tween Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the L... ...ou come to Gezer. Chapter 6 And David again gathered together all the cho- sen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 And David arose and went, with all th... ...ouse of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand cho- sen men for war, to ght against the house of Israel, and to bring the king...

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...hat gives this picture such a mysterious force? For my part, though deeply sen- sible of its influence, I cannot seize it.” “Nor can I, in words,” rep... ... is difficult to spare the reader the commonplaces of enthusiasm, on which hun- dreds of tourists have already insisted. Over this half-worn pavement,... ... that most gorgeous pageant of earthly pride, had streamed and flaunted in hun- dred-fold succession over these same flagstones, and through this yet ... ... in them now. Miriam watched the heap of mortality while she could count a hun- dred, which she took pains to do. No stir; not a finger moved! “You ha... ...wn in this queer way, nor what a multitude of dead monks, through how many hun- dred years, must have contributed their bony framework to build up. th...

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...it to the Powers who sat in judgement on the case, that they all, when the sen- tence came, turned eyes upon the angel, and they smiled. They do not s... ...s far as he could, considering their immense extension; and except for the sen- sitive social name, he was of single-minded purpose. 37 George Meredi... ... the soul of man.’ ‘You hit me rightly,’said Carting, tickled and touched; sen- sually excited by the bouquet of Victor Radnor’s hospitality and compa... ...iew, he spoilt it for English hearing, by making use of his dry compressed sen- tences. Besides he was a bachelor; therefore but a theorist. And his i... ...Victor’s cunning to cover his own: a thing imaginable of him previously in sen- timental matters, yet never accurately and so legibly printed on her m... ... many years back, and which he had repudiated, though not his share of the hun- dreds of thousands realized before the refusal to ratify the bargain h... ... Armandine intended one of her grand surprises for her master, and for the hun- dred and fifty or so to be seated at her tables in the unwarmed house ...

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...ouse enjoys over the Up- per. Amendments to such bills can be moved in the Sen- ate; and all such bills must pass the Senate before they 41 Trollope ... ...eral Fremont held his military court. He was a great man here during those hun- dred days through which his command lasted. He lived in a great house,... ...nd explains with more detail the mode in which the President shall be cho- sen than the manner after which the duties shall be per- formed. The first ... ...e immediate concern in the nomination of the President than in that of the Sen- ate. They intended to provide that the election should be made in a ma... ...sibility. He may be im- peached by the House of Representatives before the Sen- ate, but that impeachment only goes to the removal from office and per... ...stretching east and west from the Atlantic to the center of the continent, hun- dreds of miles beyond the Mississippi, and north and south over four d... ...daily across the whole continent at a cost to the States government of two hun- dred thousand pounds a year. With us the chief mail trains are legally... ... gentlemen’s parlors, two ladies’ parlors, and a ladies’ entrance, and two hun- dred bedrooms. These of course are all built with a view to profit, an... ...r us to export thousands upon thousands of soldiers to Canada of whom only hun- dreds would return. The whole turmoil, cost, and para- phernalia of su...

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...is rent,—namely, seven hundred francs a year,—and the location he had cho- sen in the heart of this well-filled building, exactly three years before t... ...rancs, and he pos- sessed a little property of nine thousand and a few odd hun- dred francs; the fruit of his economy and that of his wife 30 The Les... ...e money- lender, Barbet. “Celeste will have from my brother and myself two hun- dred thousand francs in ready money,” the old maid had said to Barbet ... ...the three Thuilliers. “That young man has great capacity,” said Thuillier, sen- tentiously. “Y es, that he has,” replied Brigitte, extinguishing the l... ...e dependence; and I entered Paris through the Barriere d’Italie, with five hun- dred francs in my pocket, firmly resolved, like one of my compatriots,... ...opinot,—a sub- lime man, as you justly remarked. If I had not already cho- sen a career which is in some sort monastic, and precludes all idea of marr... ...ss to still possess her, must be proud of him,” remarked Madame Thuillier, sen- tentiously. “He is a real treasure for us,” said Thuillier. “If you on... ...in the hollow seat of the chair in which he sat, taking out no more than a hun- dred francs at a time, which he put in the pockets of his trousers, ne... ...e judges sovereign power in all cases of litigation involving not over one hun- dred and forty francs. A way was made for the judge’s clerk, who was n...

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... a turbulent sea in open boats, had weighed upon his head, and he looked a hun- dred; therefore, at no period had the chief of the house of Guenic bee... ...d to invest her savings. But Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel might have had three hun- dred thousand francs in gold, she might have had ten times the landed ... ...cite, who did not choose to take a subordinate position, purchased for one hun- 57 Beatrix dred and thirty thousand francs one of the finest houses i... ...d so strangely united in this carriage, for it is impossible to report the hun- dred and more versions which went the round of Nantes on the remarks, ... ...cule that would overwhelm me if my eyes or my manner ceased to express the sen- timents of which you complain. A second robbery from Camille would be ... ...an they? 218 Balzac Calyste reached the hour of two o’clock living on one sen- tence only, “I shall see her again!”—a poem which has often paid the c... ...r on Calyste’s desk. Calyste found the letter and read it. Seeing Sabine’s sen- tence and recognizing her handwriting he flung the letter into the fir... ... clever. But Calyste loved too deeply, he was too much absorbed in his own sen- timents to perceive the change in Beatrix, and to satisfy her need by ... ...been most anxious to make myself perfectly clear throughout. As for my own sen- timents, I am, above all, desirous to say to you, that although I admi...

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... Saxons had Charles Dickens 29 been settled in the country more than four hun dred and fifty years. Great changes had taken place in its customs dur... ..., for the honour of The White Ship. Crash! A terrific cry broke from three hun dred hearts. It was the cry the people in the distant vessels of the K... ... nor the King’s niece, nor her brother, nor any one of all the brave three hun dred, noble or commoner, except we three, has risen above the water!’ ... ...d all the relations and servants of Thomas a Becket, to the number of four hun dred. The Pope and the French King both pro tected him, and an abbey ... ...FIRST, CALLED THE LION HEART IN THE YEAR OF OUR L ORD one thousand one hun dred and eighty nine, Richard of the Lion Heart succeeded to the thron... ...ied to prison in a cart, his officers going two and two before him. He was sen A Child’s Histroy of England 388 tenced by the Parliament to be hange... ... fortnight after the coronation, and besides being very heavily fined, was sen tenced to stand twice in the pillory, to be whipped from Aldgate to Ne...

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...thered some informa- tion vaguely bearing on this head, but he thought—The sen- Stalky & Co tence was dragged out to the uttermost: Stalky did not wi... ...e three stare at him sometimes till he regularly trickles. He’s an awfully sen- sitive beast.” “He read ‘Eric, or Little by Little,’” said McTurk; “so... ...d on the dormi- tory stairs will ipso facto render himself liable to three hun- dred lines.” The boys did not collect on the stairs, but most of them ... ...d. Stalky & Co “Well, come on out for a walk,” said Stalky in a well-cho- sen pause. “It’s all very disgustin’, and I do hope the Lazar- house won’t ... ... Little Hartopp’s voice drowned Mason’s ere Prout caught the import of the sen- tence. “The boy himself hinted at the existence of a deal of it in the...

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... over on the other side, until a heavy sea strikes her with the noise of a hun dred great guns, and hurls her back — that she stops, and staggers, an... ...as it is. But it is only when alone, that she is quiet: for if she becomes sen sible of the presence of any one near her, she is restless until she c... ...mber to look at, but a singularly bad one for all purposes of hearing. The Sen ate, which is smaller, is free from this objection, and is exceedingly... ...rce and brutal, and so destructive of all self respect in worthy men, that sen sitive and delicate minded persons shall be kept aloof, and they, and ... ...s in the human body. It would be impossible to experience a similar set of sen sations, in any other circumstances, unless perhaps in attempting to g... ...e fourteen free States, with a free population nearly double, return but a hun dred and forty two. Before whom do the presidential candidates bow dow...

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...expect me to know it. I belong to the million. Who knows Latin? Only a few hun- dred imbeciles who aren’t fit to take care of themselves.” For some th... ... six tall windows. Michaelis had been the object of a revulsion of popular sen- timent, the same sentiment which years ago had applauded the 77 Josep... ... foreign than ever. The great man manifested no surprise, no eagerness, no sen- timent whatever. The attitude in which he rested his menaced eyes was ... ...one became lofty. “For my part, I can’t share your view. It is selfish. My sen- timents for my own country cannot be doubted; but I’ve al- ways felt t... ...m without resis- tance and without abandonment, passively, as if only half-sen- sible. She freed herself from his lax embraces without difficulty. “Y ... ...0 The Secret Agent But after all Michaelis may not be so far wrong. In two hun- dred years doctors will rule the world. Science reigns already. It rei...

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...almost perpen- dicularly from their base to the height of at least fifteen hun- dred feet; while across the vale—in striking contrast to the scenery o... ...with the ague and fever; for I know not how else to describe the alternate sen- sations I experienced, and suffering not a little from the lame- ness ... ...n his back and be thus transported to the stream, which flowed perhaps two hun- dred yards from the house. Our appearance upon the verandah in front o... ...midnight, as I sup- posed; and, raising myself partly from the mat, became sen- sible that we were enveloped in utter darkness. T oby lay still asleep... ...Amar and Poee-Poee. At a certain season of the year, when the fruit of the hun- dred groves of the valley has reached its maturity, and hangs in golde... ...r when- 180 Typee ever an enterprising islander chooses to emigrate a few hun- dred yards from the place where he was born, all he has to do in order... ...he leaving such fine creatures to be lost in that country.’* More than two hun- * This passage, which is cited as an almost literal translation from t... ...nversation, giv- ing a musical prolongation to the final syllable of every sen- tence, and chirping out some of the words with a liquid, bird-like acc...

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...hat gives this picture such a mysterious force? For my part, though deeply sen- sible of its influence, I cannot seize it.” “Nor can I, in words,” rep... ... is difficult to spare the reader the commonplaces of enthusiasm, on which hun- dreds of tourists have already insisted. Over this half-worn pavement,... ... that most gorgeous pageant of earthly pride, had streamed and flaunted in hun- dred-fold succession over these same flagstones, and through this yet ... ... in them now. Miriam watched the heap of mortality while she could count a hun- dred, which she took pains to do. No stir; not a finger moved! “You ha... ...wn in this queer way, nor what a multitude of dead monks, through how many hun- dred years, must have contributed their bony framework to build up. th... ...ence, when the young Italian was new in Rome, and was just beginning to be sen- sible of a more poignant felicity than he had yet experienced, in the ... ...days already; muddy, too, having been fished up from the pavement, where a hun- dred feet have trampled on them. You may see throngs of men and boys w... ... wicked filth of Rome. Such are the flowery favors—the fragrant bunches of sen- timent—that fly between cavalier and dame, and back again, from one en...

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...hat the criminal con- demned to death should with his own hand execute the sen- tence, thinking it strange that a third person, innocent of the fault,... ...r they are, keep, themselves the most obscure; the most sick are the least sen- sible; therefore it is that with an unrelenting hand they most often, ... ...tantibus ursis Spectavi vitulos, et equorum nomine dignum, Sen deforme pecus, quod in illo nascitur amni....” [“How often have we seen... ...mean by it. We help them to make use of this fine expression, of this fine sen- tence, which is none of theirs; they only have it in keeping; they hav... ...they so often do, and wrest me to their conception, they ruin me. When the sen- tence, nevertheless, is not strong enough for my proportion, a civil p... ...shions and abominate those of strangers. Do they meet with a compatriot in Hun- gary? O the happy chance! They are henceforward insepa- rable; they cl...

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...ousand four hundred francs, rooms in his house, and an allowance of twelve hun- dred francs in lieu of feeding you. He will not admit you to his table... ...extraordinary effect on a soul which seemed so stern. The Count pronounced sen- tence on me, to use a legal phrase, as supreme and royal judge; he too...

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...“I should 13 Balzac take you up in my society paper; you would bring in a hun- dred francs for ten columns of fun.” “Bixiou,” said Blondet, “an Amphi... ...nly know the address of that master spy. Contenson would tell him for five hun- dred francs what Louchard wanted to see a thousand crowns for. The rap... ... in the kitchen fire. “We have done the trick,” he said, showing her three hun- dred and ten thousand francs in a roll, which he took out of the pocke... ...ttle fib in the way of business. Y our relations are to have given you six hun- dred thousand francs to promote your marriage with Clotilde de Grandli... ...e and do the hon- ors of her palace—it is in the nature of things: Another hun- dred thousand francs!—By Heaven! you are at home there, 177 Balzac Es... ...rom or to the yard. Every prisoner, whether committed for trial or already sen- tenced, and the prisoners under suspicion who have been reprieved from... ... of the Assize Court, since the culprit comes only to be examined or to be sen- tenced. This yard is indeed terrible to behold; it cannot be imag- ine... ...the only proof against him was his concealment of the stolen goods. Though sen- tenced, the lad will confess nothing! For seventy days he has held out...