ON Thursday I sat in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral and watched the Bishops, Deans, Canons, and other clergy as they walked up in procession, leading the new Archbishop.
And from my chilly watch aloft I saw the icebergs sailing, Where I sat weeping very oft, While all the crew were whaling.
And then came the sad summer eve, when I sat with the little frock in the sun, And Annie ran in with the news of the ship.
It was a satisfaction to know that the tree-limb on which I sat was substantial.
She went forward alone for half an hour while I sat watching from a commanding crag.
Zenobia was so full of hope, and almost of triumph, that she induced her lord in the autumn to assemble their political friends at one of his great seats, and Mr. and Mrs. Ferrars were urgently invited to join the party.
He was tall, with a countenance of remarkable intelligence and power, though still softened by the innocence and bloom of boyhood.
Except Zenobia, every one was of the opinion that the King acted wisely in entrusting the reconstruction of the Whig ministry to his late Secretary of State, Lord Melbourne.
The people believe that at this time both men and women become overcharged with vitality, and that a safety valve is absolutely necessary.
As a boy he was very religious, and has always felt obliged to resist sexual vice to the utmost, though there have been occasional lapses.
On the whole, however, the ladies were not so delicate; they had no hesitation in bathing with gentlemen, and on these occasions would put their finest ornaments on their heads.
It is perhaps a mistake to show so plainly at the outset that I approach what may seem only a psychological question not without moral fervour.
But they suffer from them, and in large measure, indeed, they suffer precisely through the struggle with them, through the effort to thrust sexuality aside.
When there is no real danger of offensive action, there is no need for more than playful defence, and no serious anxiety should that defence be taken as a disguised invitation.
She was observed one day, when gazing from her window at a young man in whom she was tenderly interested, to become much excited.
As Luzet has said, hysteria and chlorosis are sisters.
It does not appear to me, however, even yet, that a final answer to the question whether a menstrual sexual rhythm occurs in men can be decisively given in the affirmative.
Even in this respect, however, he points out that "when practiced in moderation it is not injurious in the certain and exceptionless way in which it is believed to be in many circles.
It seems to me that this field has rarely been viewed in a scientifically sound and morally sane light, simply because it has not been viewed as a whole.
Even the most fundamental impulse of all, the gesture of sexual refusal, is normally only imperative among animals and savages.
When golf is taken rightly it arouses the instincts of the chase in a man, and I now feel the same joy in running down a caddy and bargaining for found balls that others feel in hunting wild animals.
Isobel hesitated, but she hesitated so weakly that on the first of May we had bought the place at Westcote and moved into it.
But even then one must remember the cardinal rule of all golfers--"Keep the eye on the ball.
He seemed to take it as a matter of course that I would arrange for a lot of chickens as soon as I was fairly settled on the place, and in this he was seconded by Mr. Millington.
Father Zossima sat down on a very old-fashioned mahogany sofa, covered with leather, and made his visitors sit down in a row along the opposite wall on four mahogany chairs, covered with shabby black leather.
He asked the question softly and meekly, to his own surprise, and at once, again to his own surprise, sat down on the bench.
Mitya sat down on a wicker chair, before a little table, covered with a dirty dinner-napkin.
She sat down beside him, and still keeping his hands pressed them violently.
The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal And so Mitya sat looking wildly at the people round him, not understanding what was said to him.
He went home, sat down, wrote it on the spot, sent it, and they put it in.
I must have sat on the handkerchief at Fenya’s, and the blood’s come through,” Mitya explained at once with a childlike unconsciousness that was astounding.
Kalganov ran back, sat down in a corner, bent his head, hid his face in his hands, and burst out crying.
He ceased walking to and fro, sat down on the sofa, leaned his elbows on the table again and held his head tight in both hands.
I satstaring at him and wondering why I couldn’t say a word to him now.
And, almost as though it were a personal affront, he declared, on the spot, that he was bored, sat down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep.
Ivan sat scowling, both his fists convulsively pressed on his knees.
Alyosha felt that his brother had taken the first step towards him, and that he had certainly done this with some definite motive.
He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaïda Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimonial grievances, but simply because he forgot him.
Dmitri stood up, thought a moment, and put his finger to his forehead.
The papa was glad that the birch was covered with twigs.
She’ll understand how great this trouble is and will forgive.
A good-looking peasant lad, about eighteen, joined us; he had to hurry back next morning to pull a merchant’s barge along the bank.
There, after great exploits, he was found worthy at last to suffer torture and a martyr’s death for the faith.
Once I was bitten by a centipede, brother, and laid up a fortnight with fever from it.
He had evidently considered it beforehand, and made this bow in all seriousness, thinking it his duty to show his respect and good intentions.
The elder spoke to them, read a brief prayer over them, blessed them, and dismissed them.
You see how anxious I am for your words, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
Precisely so,” said Smerdyakov, softly and reasonably, watching Ivan intently, however.
He too will be harder than yesterday, he too must be spiteful and angry, and he too, no doubt, has made some plan.
Much is done already in you since you can so deeply and sincerely know yourself.
I referred to her being rich and having a dowry while I was only a stuck-up beggar!
In this trick Mappo, the merry monkey, had a part, for he sat up with Tum Tum, and they both ate.
In that they sat with their papa and the keeper, and around the circus grounds they went.
He sat up at the table, and made believe eat a meal.
My soul is such a poltroon, that I measure not good fortune by the height, but by the facility.
If it happen so that he fall again, and be mixed with the common crowd, every one inquires with amazement into the cause of his having been raised so high.
But if my heart be not great enough, 'tis open enough to make amends, at any one's request, freely to lay open its weakness.
Is this he," say they, "was he no wiser when he was there?
Just as we sat down here, rain came on; the wind changed to S.
Heavy rain was falling soon after day-break, and I most willingly sat still in my tent, hoping the rain would continue.
All day we sat still in anxious suspense about the non-arrival of our drays--the ground having been so good.
Witness the fierce struggle between the Romantic and Classic schools,--the early victories of the enfant sublime, Victor Hugo.
Yorick, "for what wise reasons hast thou ordered it, that beggary and urbanity, which are at such variance in other countries, should find a way to be at unity in this?
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