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...e same society. Veronique also received three or four of the distinguished officers of the garrison and staff; but the freedom of mind displayed by he... ...ys in expectation of some such catas- trophe, and she at once notified the officers of the law, who 47 Balzac went to the house and broke in the gate... ...n fact I know not into what form of utter ruin, as soon as the heir or the officers of the law laid rough hands upon them; they disap- peared as if af... ... the ex- pectation that the priest-party (a term invented by Montlosier, a royalist who went over to the constitutionals, and was dragged by them far ... ...port from this forest, for many of the trees would make fine masts for the navy; but it will wait until the increasing population of Montegnac makes a... ...ons. The head-forester of Montegnac was a former cavalry-ser- geant in the Royal guard, born at Limoges, whom the Duc de Navarreins had sent to his es... ...hem. They were not skinflints like those of to-day; they spent their money royally, those fellows! Just fancy, madame, one evening Farrabesche was cha...

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...ich was very often on his lips, “We never make mistakes.” To the Company’s officers it took the form of a severe injunction, “We must make no mistakes... ... a youth he had deserted from a ship trading to La Plata, to enlist in the navy of Montevideo, then under the command of Garibaldi. Afterwards, in the... ...xactions of successive governments, nor the periodical raids of recruiting officers upon the population of paid miners they had created, could discour... ...t the concession-holder should pay at once to the Gov- ernment five years’ royalties on the estimated out- put of the mine. 53 Joseph Conrad Mr. Goul... ...e, he reported, besides other sums extracted from him on account of future royalties, on the ground that a man with such a valuable concession 57 Jos... ...out on the cross trails between the pastures, or camped by the side of the royal road, travellers on horseback would remark to each other— “More peopl... ...icial that fell into his hands was sure to get a severe flogging. The army officers did not like his name to be mentioned in their presence. His follo... ... The O.S.N. Company found much occupation for its fleet. Costaguana had no navy, and, apart from a few coastguard cutters, there were no national ship...

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...ut distant; for the Indian had been too much accustomed to mingle with the officers of the different military posts he had frequented not to understan... ...ties on any of his Majesty’s loyal subjects. I have not served much in the royal navy, it is true; but I have served, and that is something; and, in t... ...n any of his Majesty’s loyal subjects. I have not served much in the royal navy, it is true; but I have served, and that is something; and, in the way... ...delicate ladies in the land. The king’s majesty has shot the bridge in his royal person.” “Well, I want no delicate ladies or king’s majesties (God bl... ...g the humble but responsible situation of the oldest sergeant. A few young officers also, who were natives of the colonies, were to be found in the co... ...that, at first she had found not only novel, but a little irksome; and the officers and men in their turn, gradually familiarized to the presence of a... ...ned; but God is as near me, in this my home, as he is near the king in his royal palace.” “Who can doubt it?” returned Mabel, looking from the view up... ...fect a retreat; and I would advise Mas- ter Cap, who is the admiral of our navy, to have a boat in readiness to evacuate the island, if need comes to ...

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...soldierly smartness in his man- ner. T o be exact, he had acquired it in the navy. But that was all one; he had at least been trained to desperate res... ...moved farther on, pursuing the strange Odyssey of his decadence. His days of royal favour had departed even then; but he still retained, in his narrow... ... character of man, without the help of petticoats. The Kingdom of Fife (that royal province) may be ob- served by the curious on the map, occupying a ... ...ng fish, not one but has its legend, quaint or tragic: Dunfermline, in whose royal towers the king may be still observed (in the ballad) drinking the ... ...our arrival, which we thought a strange thing in itself; but when one of the officers of the Pharos, passing narrowly by him, observed his book to be ...

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... had clasped the sword never, like Joan of Arc, to relinquish it until the royal standard floated in the cathedral of Rheims; hands that were often bl... ...hat mute melan- choly. The nose, which was aquiline and thin, recalled the royal origin of the high-born woman. The pure lips, finely cut, wore happy ... ...y years’ usage, and a pack of cards as greasy as those of the custom-house officers at Saint-Nazaire, who change them only once in two weeks. These th... ...ce, had been in his early days one of the most intrepid and most competent officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the In... ...early days one of the most intrepid and most competent officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the Indian Ocean, and the ... ...ed by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be employed ag... ...ce. It was the duke who obtained for this glorious relic of the old Breton navy the pension which enabled him to live. On the death of Louis XVIII. he... ...ron would forget where he was when the talk fell on the misfortunes of the royal house. Sometimes the evening ended in a manner that was quite unexpec... ...eir wives and children. Those green dragons, otherwise called custom-house officers, were tranquilly smoking their pipes. There was something foreign,...

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...e tied two cats together by their hind legs with a string about six feet in length, and threw them from the wall into the midst of that noble, that pr... ....” “Oh, you received letters, Rosa?” “By hundreds.” “But who wrote to you?” “Who! why, in the first place, all the students who passed over the Buyten... ... amorous Jacob, you by your own account are surrounded with all sorts of swains eager to make love to you. Do you remember Rosa, what you told me of t... ...olet- coloured velvet, embroidered with silver; who, with a cer- tain aristocratic slowness, ascended the white stone steps of the house. In his wake ... ..., embroidered with silver; who, with a cer- tain aristocratic slowness, ascended the white stone steps of the house. In his wake followed two officers...

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... of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. You were to abolish military force, but you were first ... ...ways afraid of inconveniencing busy men, being an idle man.’ ‘I should not have thought so, from your appearance.’ ‘No? I take it as a compliment. In ... ...fraid of inconveniencing busy men, being an idle man.’ ‘I should not have thought so, from your appearance.’ ‘No? I take it as a compliment. In fact, ... ...act, I was bred in the Royal Navy, and was First Lieutenant when I quitted it. But, an uncle disappointed in the service leaving me his property on co... ...me in my inclination to end my days in the city.’ ‘Retired from the Army, sir?’ suggested Mr. Sapsea. ‘His Honour the Mayor does me too much credit,’ ... ...leer of recognition, and smoking an imaginary pipe, with his head very much on one side and his eyes very much out of their places: ‘Hopeum Puffer.’ ‘... ...should pervade all business transactions between principals of honour, this piece of business is considered done. ‘But here’s a lark!’ cries Deputy. ‘...

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...and that you would not wish for me. You will not see me here again till my royal lover has deserted me, and I warn you that if I catch him, death alon... ...ly, the attaches to embassies, and the ambassadors, generals, and inferior officers, the peers of France, their sons and nephews, the court, and the t... ...gates of Cadiz and I read peril for my life in the dissembling words of my royal master. Vainly I tried to discover the cause of your displea- sure, a... ...ch was to be decisive. I wanted to know whether his love was the love of a Royalist for his King, who can do no wrong. Why should the loyalty of a Cat... ...me. His last letter told Marie that he had been ap- pointed Captain in the navy of some American republic, and exhorted him to hope for better days. A... ...ll provide portions for my daughter and for Rene, whom I des- tine for the navy. The poor little chap will have an income of ten thousand livres, and ... ... place as referendary for Armand in the Audit Department. As for Rene, the navy will doubtless make a diplomatist of him. The little rogue, at seven y...

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...use was not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. Th... ... in its spacious lawns and landscaping, one of the notable sights crowning Royal Ridge, but merry and homelike despite its mighty stone walls and its ... ...ce Updike was making love to Lucile McKelvey in her mauve drawing- room on Royal Ridge, after their return from a lecture by an eminent English noveli... ... riding on the Pullman. Both of them, I forgot to say, were sailors in the Navy. It seems Mike had the lower berth and by and by he heard a terrible r... ...Rather than make trouble, and always providin’ there ain’t any enforcement officers hiding in the waste-bas- ket—” The words died choking in his throa... ...n and the United States must, on behalf of oppressed small nations, keep a navy equal to the ton- nage of all the rest of the world. But they were so ... ... important of the year, as it was to be followed by the annual election of officers. There was agitation abroad. The lunch was held in the ballroom of... ...unch proclaimed, “Gentlemen, we will now proceed to the annual election of officers.” For each of the six offices, three candidates had been chosen by...

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... whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is th... ...d butler within, whom Pharaoh ought to have hanged, but whom he clothed in royal apparel, and mounted upon a horse that carried him to a curule chair ... ... guard his official seat, a coal- black night, lamps blazing back upon his royal scarlet, and his blunderbuss correctly slung. T riton would not stay,... ...king’s statue:—Till very lately the etiquette of Europe was, that none but royal persons could have equestrian stat- ues. Lord Hopetoun, the reader wi... ...pro- duced by the absence of your association and intercourse with British officers and merchants: you have no moral dis- cernment to distinguish betw...

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...ngregation. They had further beautified the place with a huge board of the royal arms, and with Moses and Aaron in white cauliflower wigs presiding ov... ...y, he must needs go to some correspondents of his who are Fel- lows of the Royal Society. I took it for granted they must be friends of his Majesty or... ... I must have left Bowstead. I was pledged to her Majesty’s card-table, and royal commands cannot be disre- garded, so I had to go away in grievous anx... ...ne of his men to a boat coming up from Woolwich, rowed by men of the Royal navy, who were certain to take part with an officer; but Sir Amyas and Bett... ...a billet been brought in from the widow of one of her father’s old brother officers who had heard of his being in town, and begged him to bring his da...

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...ht do worse than try a slip of one of those juicy weeds; ill-fated, sickly Royalties would be set-up striding through another half-cen- tury with such... ...t enter the service?” “Want of an income, my lady.” “Bad look-out. Army or Navy for gentlemen, if they stick to the school of honour. The sedentary pr... ... the Peninsula; I was at Talavera with him. Bad day for our cavalry.” “Our officers were young at their work then.” “They taught the Emperor’s troops ... ...men of my age or older for the 57 George Meredith cavalry—heavy losses of officers.” She spoke, as if urged by a sting to revert to the distasteful: ... ...poleon’s tactics, his command to the troopers to “give point,” and English officers’ neglect of sword exercise, and the “devil of a day” Old England i... ...hing comes easier to them: a plaguey cut, if it does cut— say, one in six. Navy too. Their cutlass-drill is like a woman’s fling of the arm to fetch a... ...n. In those days the world had oscillated, under higher lead- ing than its royal laxity, to rigidity. Tiny peccadilloes were no longer matter of jest,... ...overeign splendour in England was riding down the heavens, and drawing the royal mantle of the gold-fringed shadows over plain and wavy turf, blue wa-...

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...im from a window of the Observatory, where the Familiars of the Astronomer Royal nightly outwatch the winking stars. But, the minutes passing on and n... ..., but that was to be expected. There’ s 58 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 4 no royal road to learning; and what is life but learning!’ ‘And what do you do... ... army?’ ‘Not exactly,’ said Fledgeby, rather flattered by the ques- tion. ‘Navy?’ asked Miss Wren. 89 Charles Dickens ‘N—no,’ said Fledgeby. He quali... ... buttoned-up frock coat and pantaloons, presented a serviceable, half-pay, Royal Arms kind of appearance, as he applied his pocket handkerchief to his... ...th by slow starvation and bitter weather, to the mercies of some Relieving Officers and some Union Houses; the other, admitting that there are such 1...

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... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ly twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On the tw... ...hen he fell in love with her at a ball on board the Crippler, given to the officers of that ship when she lay in Plymouth Harbour. “The dear old Cripp... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ... ... I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal Artillery establishment—officers, men, tumbrils, waggons, horses, guns, and ammunition.” “’Tis like...

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...rgeant Kite (it was at this time, by the way, that those famous recruiting-officers were playing their pranks in Shrewsbury) were occupied very much i... ...rth; for his mother, whose name he took, had acted as camp-fol- lower to a Royalist regiment; had then obeyed the Parliamen- tarians; died in Scotland... ... most moderate calculation, ninety years of age when she went off with His Royal Highness Prince Paris of Troy? Was not Madame La V alliere ill-made, ... ...ting seamen to be; and for the further in- crease and encouragement of the navy, to take able-bodied landsmen when seamen fail. This Act, which occupi... ...ndeed, I had; for the wretch could not speak for some minutes, and all the officers stood laughing at him, as he writhed and wriggled hideously. “‘Gen... ...Count came up. Y e gods, how his embroidery glittered in the lamps! What a royal exhalation of musk and bergamot came from his wig, his handkerchief, ...

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...entative statue of City Corporations and London’s maj- esty, the figure of Royalty, worshipful in its marbled redun- dancy, fronting the bridge, on th... ... ‘No, Fenellan! Besides they’ve got to land. I guarantee a trusty army and navy under a contract, at two-thirds of the present cost. We’ll start a Nat... ...he 34 One of Our Conquerors winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- s... ...or shook head, pitiful over the good people likened to things unclean, and royally upraising them: in doing which, he scattered to vapour the leaden i... ...d then desired to receive. It hardly mattered:— considering that the Dutch Navy did really, incredible as it seems now, come sailing a good way up the... ...aratory fashion; because he is determined we shall have an army of trained officers instead of infant ama- teurs heading heroic louts. Not a thought o... ... Colney hasn’t said it. If we’re not plucked, as your regiments are of the officers who have learnt their work, we’re emasculated:—the nation’s half m...

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...and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my father’s, and I do not thi... ...te and successful last stand of insurrectionary troops (who had seized the Navy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced b... ...roops (who had seized the Navy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to t... ...riend of his father’s, admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of o... ...dworking, hard- living, modern and scientific boys’ schools, first for the Royal Navy and then for the public service generally, and as they grew, ope... ...ng, hard- living, modern and scientific boys’ schools, first for the Royal Navy and then for the public service generally, and as they grew, opening t... ...self human, mor- tal and human in the sight of all the world, the pleasant officers we had imagined would change to wonderful heroes at the first crac... ...in French, porters in blouses, workmen in enormous purple trousers, police officers in peaked caps instead of helmets and romantically cloaked, big ca...

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... was all in vain; and had I not come on board, and their own commander and officers with me, and with good words, and some threats also of giv- ing th... ...ry him home to England, and make him captain of the best man-of-war in the navy , he would not go with him if he might not carry his wife and children... ...hem a plantation, he would give them a small stock to begin with – for the officers of the Inquisition had seized all his effects and estate, and he h... ...on board. The boatswain, the gunner, the car- penter, and all the inferior officers, as soon as I was gone off in the boat, came up, and desired to sp... ...h thing so far off. Otherwise, what are their buildings to the palaces and royal buildings of Eu- rope? What their trade to the universal commerce of ...

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... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ly twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On the tw... ...hen he fell in love with her at a ball on board the Crippler, given to the officers of that ship when she lay in Plymouth Harbour. “The dear old Cripp... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ... ... I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal Artillery establishment—officers, men, tumbrils, waggons, horses, guns, and ammunition.” “’Tis like... ...beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with unusu...

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...oys were gradually assembling. They were sons of the local clergy , of the officers at the Depot, and of such manu- facturers or men of business as th... ...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ...sort, on the destruction of the monasteries it had been reorganised by the officers of King Henry VIII and thus acquired its name. Since then, pursuin... ...ins sat at the table? And what about the depot? He really could not expect officers and gentlemen to receive him as one of themselves. It would do the... ...a bottle of wine and a good dinner , and having once been seen at the Cafe Royal with a lady who was very prob- ably a near relation, was thenceforwar... ... at the witty immorality of a farce at the Palais 121 W. Somerset Maugham Royal, but here was nothing but filth. With an emphatic gesture he held his... ...y thought there were only four professions for a gentleman, the Army , the Navy , the Law, and the Church. She had added medi- cine because her brothe... ...ar were three or four who were past their first youth: one had been in the Navy , from which according to report he had been dismissed for drunkenness... ...feel like going to lectures that morning, but went instead to the Army and Navy Stores to buy Mildred a wedding-present. After much wavering he settle...