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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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...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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... 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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...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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... 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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...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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...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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...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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...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...

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...ther’s brother— George stared at his wife. “Go on,” she twinkled, from the pillows. —mother’s brother, sold his place to Walter’s family. We seem to h... ...ss,” Mrs. Cloke went on. “An’ Cloke was only wonderin’ this afternoon—your pillow’s slipped my dear, you mustn’t lie that a-way—just for the sake o’ s... ...n’s custom, till the weather grew hot, to sleep in my bed, her head on the pillow like a Christian; and when morning came I would always find that the... ...ay, all four feet spread out, sighing heavily. She settled her head on the pillow several times, to show her little airs and graces, and struck up her... ... 39 Kipling Let me in and I’ll’ be good!” She was admitted and flew to her pillow. When she was quieted I whispered to the other dog, “You can lie on ... ... the light-built one with the yellow beard painted his picture at the last Academy: He’s a swell R.A., James Loman.” “And the brown chap with the hand... ...reseen extra, as was Jimmy’s gratis full-length—(it will be in this year’s Academy) of Penfentenyou, who has returned to his own place. Now and again,...

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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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...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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... 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...