The death of General Longstreet removes from the world's stage of action one who in time of war had his name and his deeds sounded by the trumpet of fame throughout the civilized world.
On the other hand was a young nation, scarcely emerged from its chrysalis stage and without moral or physical support among the nations of the earth.
A volume could be filled with incidents of those sunny days on the Mexican Gulf, the incipient stage of the first campaign in real war for the young officers.
For our part, we think of Longstreet now as all of his compatriots thought of him up to 1870--that he was one of the finest figures on the stage of the Civil War; a spectacle of perfect gallantry; an example of warlike force and splendor.
Some had reached a height and breadth of beauty already; some could be only beautiful at every stage of growth; very many of them were quite strange to Dolly; they were foreign trees, gathered from many quarters.
If he had, Mr. Copley could not, at this stage of things at least, have borne it.
It was evening and rainy weather when they came to the last stage of their journey, and left the carriage of which Mrs. Copley had grown so weary.
Then they came here, he to his work, she to see the snows and some friends, before leaving India for Japan, or California, or some other stage of the voyage which brings no rest to the troubled soul.
Even a short stage by night would be preferable to the frightful heat and the oppressive atmosphere of this lonely house, in its neglected and overgrown garden, where one lean chicken now scratched alone.
The stage was one of extraordinary beauty, the players singularly picturesque.
The images dim to an impotent mauve and the stage act begins.
The Hungarian Ruthenians were also at too low a stage of culture to enable them to be given national independence.
The negotiations had arrived at this stage when they were first interrupted on December 29.
The proceedings had reached this stage when Count Czernin resigned his office.
As it proved impossible to break the resistance put up by General Ludendorff, the idea presented itself at a later stage to strive for the annexation of Roumania instead of Poland.
It may be requited at a later stage of the controversy, and it would have been easy not to broach the subject for the moment.
At this stage of the proceedings a new pause occurred to give the separate delegates time to advise their Governments as to the results hitherto attained and receive their final instructions.
At this stage a food crisis broke out in Austria to an extent of which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was hitherto unaware, threatening Vienna in particular with the danger of being in a few days devoid of flour altogether.
Unfortunately the plan failed at its very firststage owing to Tisza's strong and obstinate resistance.
At a somewhat later stagethe wind veered and the Entente endeavoured to make a separate peace with us.
This contest was considered at an early stage by my predecessor a civil war in which the parties were entitled to equal rights in our ports.
Then, in turmoil and triumph, that promise exploded onto the world stageto make this the American Century.
He is in error in stating that the stage is essentially the same in China and Japan.
During the night we were again stopped, with a number of other travellers, for want of horses, and it was 3 o'clock on the morning of the 1st November ere we entered on the last stage before Tomsk.
The first stage led us over rather hilly roads, in many places heavy with sand.
The misery we suffered during the last stage of our journey, was beyond all description.
Perm is the first (or last) town in Europe, and a little earlier in the season it would have been our laststage of road travelling.
But when we had spent twenty-five roubles on him, we should only have a stronger reason to pay twenty more, which, at that stage of the proceedings, would be evidently throwing good money after bad.
Our next stage took us to the Ulin-dhabha mountains, the only ones worthy the name we had seen in Mongolia.
This is also exhilarating to yourself, as in every stage of the journey you have the excitement of a race to beguile the tedium of the way.
At that stage every living thing seeks shelter, and those who are afield are lucky if they are not caught in the blinding storm before they reach their houses.
The progress made is not likely to be lost; each stage of advancement rather becomes a guarantee for still greater, and more rapid progress in the future.
The post had left that day, and the poor jades allotted to us had already performed one stage over very heavy roads, and were in no condition to drag our unwieldy equipage.
In the first instance, we had been charged the fare for fourteen versts, for a stage that was acknowledged to be only seven--no better reason being alleged for the charge than that it was "necessary.
She had arrived at that most agonising stage of feeling sure that a mystery was there, without grasping what it was to which she wanted any answer.
She sat down on the landing-stage and watched the glory spreading downwards, till it reached the clear, white town she had left, and finally the sun itself swung into sight over the serrated outline of the eastern hills.
A clear stage and a crowd to see," thought Mrs. Davenport, "and may I be in the stalls.
Jim Armine looked up as Reggie left the box, but as his chair was towards the stage he saw nothing except that he had gone.
In almost the earliest stage of her life, and onward to its latest hour, she is upheld by a little less than visible presence.
So will you be educated for every stage of your existence, and ripe clusters of virtues will adorn your life.
The stage has often produced dramas, in which the hero, after a long course of conduct utterly inconsistent with matrimonial happiness, has at length been suddenly converted to the ways of virtue.
A little wit, in the early stageof the campaign, is worth a deal of logic.
But I can't expect our fair neighbor to run a stage line for my express accommodation.
Bill Coombs didn't approve of this method of ruining his stage business and scowled at the glittering auto as it sped away across the plain to the mountain.
You could run up every Friday afternoon, taking the train to Millbank and the stage to Hillcrest, and stay with us till Monday morning.
Aunt Hannah had planned the trip with remarkable accuracy, for at about three o'clock the lumbering stage stopped at a pretty chalet half hidden among the tall pines and overlooking a steep bluff.
Mr. Budlong was dressed like a stage bandit, except that he wore moccasins in spite of Pinkey's warning that he would find it misery to ride in them unless he was accustomed to wearing them.
I feel like I do when I'm gittin' drunk and I've got to the stage whur my lip gits stiff.
The planters very frequently, indeed, in the early stage of freedom, used their power as employers to the annoyance and injury of their laborers.
But it would be treating you indecorously to stop you at this stage of the discussion, before we are a third of the way through your book, and thus deny a hearing to the remainder of it.
Some of them took their station near the stage road, and kept on the look-out.
As a mockery to the hopes of the slaves this system was called an apprenticeship, and it was held out to them as a needful preparatory stagefor them to pass through, ere they could rightly appreciate the blessings of entire freedom.
In the stage and steamboat, in the parlor and at our tables, in the scenes of business and in the scenes of amusement--even in the church of God and at the communion table, he is regarded as a stranger.
They are frequently denied seats in our stage coaches; and although admitted upon the decks of our steam boats, are almost universally excluded from the cabins.
Suffice it to say, that since the organization of the government, a majority of the most distinguished men in the slaveholding states have gloried in strutting over the stage in the character of murderers.
Suddenly I recalled Rama on stage at Centre meetings, wearing short red gym shorts, closing and spreading his legs, tonguing in a slow, circular fashion the insides of his mouth.
You see, when you reach this stage in the enlightenment process, you completely surrender your will to the Infinite.
Centre meetings in Los Angeles were first held in a small room in Hollywood, and then in a large room with a stage in Manhattan Beach.
Ben Holladay had been the power behind the company for several months before the courts gave him control of their overland stage line in 1862.
By the time of the attack upon the stage line it was clear that an Indian war existed, involving in varying degrees parts of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa tribes.
Here he could take an overland stage for the rest of his journey.
Here was the end of rail travel and the beginning of the stageroutes to the coast and the mines.
The stageroute by way of Sacramento and Placerville was crowded beyond capacity, while hundreds marched over the mountains on foot.
Finally the Indian friction produced the series of Indian wars which again called the wild West to the centre of the stage for many years.
The destruction of the stage route was not the first, though it was the most general hostility which marked the commencement of a new Indian war.
The vexed question of civilian or military control had reached the bitterest stage of its discussion when Grant became President.
The first stage of the trail crossed the country, nearly west, to the great bend of the Arkansas River, two hundred and seventy miles from Independence.
To satisfy this, overland traffic had been organized on a large scale, while during 1862 the stage and freight service of the plains fell under the control of Ben Holladay.
To-day, in only two places south of Colorado do railroads bridge it; only one stage route of importance ever crossed it.
The long controversy between the War and Interior departments over the management of the tribes entered upon a new stage with the inauguration of Grant in 1869.
About noon the stage came by, and the driver, seeing a frail creature—almost a child—walking weariedly, invited her to ride.
Mary seated herself upon the middle seat, but a lurch of the stage threw her forward upon the buffalo robe, which unrolled, and an old gentleman peered savagely out, displaying a wrinkled front, in which age had more to do than anger.
The stagelamps were lit, and they were whirled past carriages and wagons, through towns, and by glaring forges, where the sparks flew in showers around sinewy arms, to the music of heavy hammers and ringing anvils.
Through every stage of existence they are excited by those subtle agencies which are gathered together in the sunbeam; and to these influences we may trace all that beauty of development which prevails throughout the vegetable world.
About one o’clock the stage stopped, and the old gentleman, who had volunteered his guardianship, said he was at home.
The old man hesitated—walked a few paces, stopped—then entered the gate, and the stage was driven away.
For instance, in the account of the battle of Waterloo, Wellington, at one stage of the contest, is said to have mounted his eighth horse, seven having been worn out or killed under him.
There is another road to meet the stage route, perhaps he took that.
After leaving the stage on the public road, I had hired a horse, and entered a lane leading, through embowering woods, to that portion of the valley which contained the endeared home of other days.
At last it came, and found the stage jolting over the pavements of the city of ——.
To say that no great cause is left, is to tell us that we have reached the final stage of human progress, and turned over the last leaf in the volume of human improvements.
But we are in the preliminary stage, the stage for acting on opinion.
Indeed the preliminary stage has scarcely been reached--the stage in which public opinion grants to every one the unrestricted right of shaping his own beliefs, independently of those of the people who surround him.
The historic conception is a reference of every state of society to a particular stage in the evolution of its general conditions.
On the stage there is no deduction for sex, and, therefore, woman has shown in that sphere an equal genius.
As the different races of man have appeared successively upon the stage of history, so there has been an order of succession of the sexes.
But it is only in the very first stage of barbarism that mere physical strength makes mastery; and the long head has controlled the long arm since the beginning of recorded time.
In the States the stage of legislation regarding alcohol is past, and the stage of making the legislation effective has come.
And the way the problem was solved here is the way in which alone it can be solved on the greaterstage of the whole world.
Though New Brunswick borders both with Lower Canada and with Nova Scotia, thus making one whole of the three colonies, there is neither railroad nor stage conveyance running from one to the other.
I have seen a woman acting as hostler at a public stage in Ireland.
In another cabin I found women and children only, and one of the children was in the last stage of illness.
Their idea of a captain was the stage idea of a leader of dramatic banditti--a man to be followed and obeyed as a leader, but to be obeyed with that free and easy obedience which is accorded to the reigning chief of the forty thieves.
We could restore the Heptarchy or the stage coaches if we chose.
In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.
My reply was in the affirmative, for my intentions at that stage were to try anything in the form of a wolf.
Very different was the action of a rancher's dog, evidently a cross between a St. Bernard and a mastiff, that came up at this stage of the game.
Antelope and sheep can be seen in the vicinity of the stage roads, and are not disturbed by constant travel.
A cold storm was blowing spitefully across the open foothills and out on to the prairie as we broke camp under the high banks of Kennedy Creek on the morning of the last stage of our journey.
Upon this stage of our journey we met no one, yet the noble forest of spruce through which we were traveling bore only too plainly the signs of man's presence in the past, and of his injurious disregard of the future.
It was evidently started by a match or other fire carelessly dropped by a member of the road crew, then working near there, or possibly by a cigar stump thrown from a stage by a tourist.
Joseph Urban has wrought a revolution in stage settings for this form of entertainment.
Mr. Dyer never descends to coarseness or vulgarity in his productions; he writes pure, clean words, something that can be sung in the home, school and on the stage to refined respectable people.
She had, in the meantime, become the Countess Rossi, but although she had abandoned the stage her reappearance proved that she had not remained idle during her period of retirement.
Pasta's ill-advised return to the stage in 1850 (when she made two belated appearances in London) is matter for sadder comment.
Indeed any intrepid foreign investigator who wishes to study the American drama, American acting, and American stage decoration will find them in almost as virgin a condition as they were in the time of Lincoln.
Why should the gamut of expression on our opera stage be so much more limited than it is in our music halls?
The Rodin case puts a by no means seldom-recurring phenomenon in the centre of the stage under a calcium light.
Someone may say that the great actor dies while the play goes thundering on through the ages on the stage and in everyman's library.
The present craze for counterfeiting the semblance of ordinary existence on the stage will also die out for the stage is not life and representing life on the stage (except in a conventionalized or decorative form) is not art.
