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Sunlight, piercing the shade, suddenly fell warm on Gyp's neck where her blouse ceased, and fortunately stilled the medley of emotion and laughter a little lower down. She continued to look gravely at Daphne Wing, who resumed: "Of course, Mother would have fits if I asked her such a question, and I don't know what Father would do. Only it is important, isn't it?
Her heart thumped with a medley of emotions as she tore open the letter: "Oh, my darling, I shall see you at last face to face " But she had no time to spend under the hall-light reading it. In her cab she struck a match and read another scrap. "But, oh, cruel one, not to let me come to-night!" She winced. That gave her a pause. If she had let him come to the Half-and-Half!
Instantly there came tumbling into the hut, until it nearly overflowed, a strange medley of creatures, hares, mice, birds, kittens, squirrels. Last of all peered into the doorway a deer and her little speckled fawn. The dog sat quite still, not moving a muscle. He had been trained not to frighten his more timid neighbors. "Follow the example of Brutus, my son," said the Hermit gently.
At Messeir's in Constantinople, or at Shepheard's hotel in Cairo places of historic interest almost, through the vivid descriptions of travelers like the authors of Eothen and The Crescent and the Cross a most motley medley of Western nationalities may be encountered, the adventurers, tourists and wanderers of the world congregated there during the winter months, and presenting a panoramic view of all the peculiar phases and contrasts of European civilization, more antagonistic there than elsewhere.
If they belong to some new kind of viking, there are hard times in store for some of us." "Faith," said I, "I believe they have swept up and made prizes of all that medley astern of them." So we held on for half an hour, and all that time they gained steadily on us; and we neared them quickly at last, for we tried to hold across their bows and weather on them.
In this respect the sole difference between 'Queen Mab' and such poems as 'The West Wind' and 'The Cloud' is that, in the prose of the notes appended to 'Queen Mab', with their disquisitions on physiology and astronomy, determinism and utilitarianism, the scientific skeleton is explicit. These notes are a queer medley.
In place of a confused medley of sense impressions, art offers orderly and pleasant colors or sounds; instead of a real life of duties hard to fulfill and ambitions painfully accomplished, art provides an imagined life which, while imitating and thus preserving the interest of real life, remains free from its hazards and burdens.
He proved himself an adept in parody and satire, and so long as he contented himself with laughing at people like Charles Sorel, the author of Francion, who had no friends, the Academicians were calm and amused, But Furetière was not merely the author of that extremely amusing medley, Le Roman Bourgeois , which still holds its place in French literature as a minor classic, but he was also a real student of philology, and one of those who most ardently desired to see the settlement of the canon of French language.
Another rocket served to show him he was taking the right direction; and at so rapid a pace did he proceed, that the enlivening sounds of voices became more and more distinct, when, topping the brow of the hill, a blue light, most opportunely lighted up, disclosed to him at a very short distance on the opposite side of the valley, a substantial gentleman's house, in front of which a motley and mixed medley of some couple of hundred people or more some of them gentlemen, but the majority consisting of miners and agricultural labourers were assembled, either as actors, assistants, or lookers-on, at a display of various kinds of fire-works that was then going forward.
They accompanied the doctor to the houses of the poor, and then consulted their books. The symptoms noticed by the writers were not those which they had just observed. As for the names of diseases, they were Latin, Greek, French a medley of every language.
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