The Woman Herself
... herself against the doors in a frantic ef- fort to reach her people . The horror of her struggle is told in terrible arpeggios that climb , and crash , and break , like great ocean rollers . Finally the doors give way , and she stands ...
Joan of Arc by Herself and Her Witnesses
... herself to the Church and I did not see that putting it in was prevented , but I know that in my presence Joan always submitted herself to the judgment of the pope and the Church . " And we may also quote the deposition of Isambart de ...
Catherine herself
... herself and to other people . Her very faults became demi - virtues . Passionate she felt herself to be . After reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles her instinctive thought had been : " Am I like Tess ? " And she had frequently asked herself ...
Inventing Herself
... herself is now the world's " greatest woman intellectual . " " Not since Simone de Beauvoir , " she boasted to James Wolcott , " has there been a feminist with my frame of ref- erence . . " 10 When " people look back at the twentieth ...
Advice to a wife on the management of herself
... herself ill , and nursing to make herself well , in order that she may , at the earliest possible moment , again return to her fashionable pursuits , which have with her become , like drinking in excess , a necessity . Indeed , a ...
Jane Austen, Her Contemporaries and Herself
... in the statement of improbable 6 Could there be a more charmingly unconscious description of Miss Austen's own novels ? circumstances , unnatural characters , and topics of conver- sation 103. Her. Contemporaries. and. Herself.
The Girl Who Choose Herself
... herself . Why is everything I do never enough ? She clutched her arms , trying to hold herself together . You taught me to respect others , but never gave me the same respect in return . You told me to be strong , but punished me every ...
The Claverings
... herself , who had been half dead before she had seen him , there had been no pretence of love . But Harry Clavering she had loved . Harry Clavering was a man , with all those qualities which she valued , and also with those foibles ...
The International
... herself , and thought she had been , as she remarked sagely to herself , simply " stringin . " But it was too good an opportunity for a little digression in life to miss by not being there . To- tally unacquainted with the hours of ...
Our detachment
... herself recognised them . However , it seemed she had been read , and that too by the last per- son she would have cared should so read her . Besides she did not like being compared with other girls in a sense unfavourable to herself ...
Mrs. Arthur
... herself wanting , the hotter had risen that suppressed fury in her heart against herself , her belongings , her breeding , and the new circumstances which brought out all their deficiencies . Pride first , and the vanity of flattered ...
The Bookman
... herself , to despoil herself , to prodigally spend herself on the object adored . She could with bliss outpour at the feet of the man she loved her precious- most treasures , and from the sacrifice have gone forth to a life of utter ...
Writings: Barchester towers
... herself driven out to Ullathorne . Miss Thorne would not perplex her with her embryo lord on that same evening , thinking that she would allow her a few hours to make herself at home ; but on the following morning Mr. Arabin arrived ...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
... herself she has elicited by a stratagem from his own lips , will watch by the body in the strength of his devotion . Her ultimate design ( we may suppose , for it is not told ) is to confess all to her lover on her revival , and throw ...
Second String
... herself felt . To - day she knew that somehow , to some degree however small , she had made herself felt by Harry Belfield . The discovery could not be said to bring pleasure , but it brought triumph - triumph and an oppressive rest ...
The American Reports
... herself , and given to her , her husband being unknown in the transaction , it does not matter whether he ought to have furnished the goods , or whether she could have availed herself of his credit if he had any . This claim would ...
Unto Each Man His Own
... herself . She appeared to herself a forgotten castaway who , in sheer perversity of spirit , had leapt overboard on to some desert island , and had been left there by his comrades who had sailed on . And now the ship of rescue seemed to ...
The rise of the Dutch republic, with an intr. by J.F. Jameson
... Herself oppressed by a sense of personal indignity , she seemed for a moment to identify herself with the cause of the oppressed provinces . She seemed to imagine herself the champion of their liberties , and the Netherlanders , for a ...
The Ocean of Story
... herself into the midst of the fire . With a woman of high rank , the rites are much more costly and elaborate . After her husband's body has been burned , she enter- tains her friends and relations in as lavish a manner as possible ...
Annals of Saint Joseph
... herself to God , and that this obstacle can only be removed by Purgatory , casts herself therein with all the impetuosity of that love which urges her to union with the Sovereign Good . The sufferings of purgatory are indescribable ...