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  • Out my porthole I could not see the clouds or open sky, only palms and a sweep of beach and some of the passengers promenading on the sand.†   (source)
  • When Ahmad and Abdulrahman emerged they would lay on a low stone wall, the sea on one side and the town's outer promenade on the other.†   (source)
  • And, lying on my bed in some frigid biscuit-colored hotel room in Nice, with a balcony facing the Promenade des Anglais, I watch the clouds reflected on sliding panes and marvel how even my sadness can make me happy, how wall to wall carpet and fake Biedermeier furniture and a softly murmuring French announcer on Canal Plus can all somehow seem so necessary and right.†   (source)
  • The service road connects with another, smaller drive, which runs parallel to Fore Street, slanting steeply uphill toward the Eastern Promenade.†   (source)
  • Don't forget million-dollar bingo in the Kraken Lounge at one o'clock, and for our special guests, disemboweling practice on the Promenade!†   (source)
  • And like before, if you peered over the rail, you could see the paths zigzagging down to the seafront, except this time you could see the promenade at the bottom with rows of boarded-up stalls.†   (source)
  • A Brooklyn brownstone my parents bought for us, right on the Promenade, with the big wide-screen view of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • The squalor had at last reached its fingers into Emerald Drive itself, and the once-celebrated promenade was now indistinguishable from the scum-heavy streets around it.†   (source)
  • Thoughts promenaded back and forth, telling me to drop down, to protect myself, at the same time denying everything in front of me.†   (source)
  • I am alone on the outside promenade to watch the sunset.†   (source)
  • Back and forth he would promenade; round and round he went, sniffing, pausing, scratching, circling, moving on, the whole while sporting a ridiculous grin on his face.†   (source)
  • I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life.†   (source)
  • Sophie and Josh crossed Ojai Avenue and stepped under the arched promenade that ran the length of the block.†   (source)
  • A middle-aged man in knife-edge whites took his message up three decks to the Marconi room adjacent to the officer's promenade.†   (source)
  • Then it was time for the keepers, and our walk out through the gate, Ah Grace, out for your promenade with your two beaus, ain't you the lucky one.†   (source)
  • She may cut off their tails with a carving knife, this husbandless wife, whose school friends are still promenading through their girlhoods.†   (source)
  • doors opened the brightness of Dubai's desert sunlight overwhelmed the sensitivity of the image sensor and the four figures seemed to become thinner, insubstantial, lost in an aura of whiteness, but they were at that moment simultaneously captured on three exterior surveillance feeds, tiny characters stumbling onto a broad sidewalk, a promenade, along a one-way boulevard on which slowly cruised two expensive two-door automobiles, one yellow, one red, the whining of their revving engines indirectly visible in the way they startled the girl and boy.†   (source)
  • When she told him about their nightly promenades, their whispers, and their suffocated cries, Jean de Satigny was rooted to his chair, his fork frozen in midair and his mouth locked open.†   (source)
  • We were on the Promenade and she said to me, I like him.†   (source)
  • Will you search the promenade?†   (source)
  • We find a bench on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, another one of Mia's favorite New York spots, she tells me.†   (source)
  • I found the others and we walked across two parking lots to the main structure in the Mid-Village Mall, a ten-story building arranged around a center court of waterfalls, promenades and gardens.†   (source)
  • In addition, there were a couple of entries concerning the town's social events, which seemed to consist largely of watching sailboats on the Pamlico River, going to church, playing bridge, and promenading along Main Street on Saturday afternoons.†   (source)
  • He said nothing, for he did not know what to say, and they continued their frightening promenade through the icy and angular jungle.†   (source)
  • (She promenades to the radio and, with an arrogant flourish, turns off the good loud blues that is playing) Enough of this assimilationist junk†   (source)
  • He began another slow promenade along the length of his cell, trailing his fingers along the wall as he walked.†   (source)
  • Rosie enters the big top, promenading beside August.†   (source)
  • She drove past him, parked near the centre of the harbour promenade, and waited patiently until he passed her before she followed him again.†   (source)
  • Once the weather warmed up, it was an out-of-doors life, where you only went "home" at night, when you finally had to: 10,000 people on an endless promenade inside the square mile of barbed wire that was the wall around our city.†   (source)
  • People got dressed up and went promenading along Elm Street, where the shops beckoned under the streetlights.†   (source)
  • I've recalled it often, here in my hole: How the grass turned green in the springtime and how the mocking birds fluttered their tails and sang, how the moon shone down on the buildings, how the bell in the chapel tower rang out the precious short-lived hours; how the girls in bright summer dresses promenaded the grassy lawn.†   (source)
  • She takes my arm and we promenade, her chaperone—a Frenchwoman named Madame Lumière—three paces behind us.†   (source)
  • The German beerhouses were filled with merry crowds, and as it was a warm evening, the streets all over the city were filled with joyful idlers and promenaders, in their Sunday apparel.†   (source)
  • She advances toward the Brooklyn Promenade.†   (source)
  • Both teens dressed in caps and gowns and promenaded up onto the stage to accept their degrees.†   (source)
  • Afterward, she sat on the balcony watching the pedestrians and the cyclists and the skateboarders flowing along the promenade in the cool windy night.†   (source)
  • In a three-story barn at the J.C. Campbell Folk School, outside Murphy, a lot of the country folk would gather and we'd all swing and fling each other around for several hours of dosey-does and promenades.†   (source)
  • She knew this promenade well enough to give her undivided attention to stars and water and the lights of the familiar, marvelous harbor.†   (source)
  • I fed Charley, gave him a limited promenade, and hit the road.†   (source)
  • En route I found unmistakable proof that this esker was, if not the home, at least one of the favorite promenades of the wolves.†   (source)
  • Instead, I found myself at Gracie Square on the promenade by the river, gazing as if in a trance at the municipal hideousness of the river islands, unable to efface the mangled image of Bobby Weed from my mind even as I kept murmuring—endlessly it seemed—lines from Revelation I had memorized as a boy: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.†   (source)
  • There was the river, with a stretch of broken promenade near the docks.†   (source)
  • I remember thy wide promenades and the decks of flowers, golden and red.†   (source)
  • I didn't stay on La Promenade des Anglais; I had a tiny room four floors up and two kilometers back, and the shared use of some plumbing.†   (source)
  • The dogs promenaded the banks.†   (source)
  • The promenade now was crowded with palm trees — maybe a hundred more had been installed that day.†   (source)
  • He walked down the promenade, a bending design of inlaid bricks, thinking it all through.†   (source)
  • He walked down the promenade until it ended and met a dune.†   (source)
  • On the model, it stood on a long promenade running along the waterfront.†   (source)
  • He followed Brad back along the promenade.†   (source)
  • They were about to start work on the nearby portion of the promenade.†   (source)
  • They saw clusters of workers in jumpsuits, purple and red, installing bricks in the promenade or sweeping sand from it.†   (source)
  • There was a two-story metal structure, something between an oil derrick and a weathervane, in the middle of the promenade.†   (source)
  • He followed the promenade to the glass building, dodging unfinished areas, piles of dirt or stacks of stones, clusters of tools.†   (source)
  • A tiled promenade snaked into the distance, dividing the oceanfront from the pink condominium and what Alan could now see were the foundations for at least a few more.†   (source)
  • Stargirl seemed to float down the promenade in her buttercup gown.†   (source)
  • Later that night, Eddie walks Marguerite along the promenade.†   (source)
  • Every year we go to see the fireworks at the Eastern Promenade.†   (source)
  • Other girls promenade more sedately, arms linked two by two.†   (source)
  • The wind headed toward the end of the promenade, where a big fortresslike structure loomed.†   (source)
  • Promenades on each side of the water, frequent berths, step-down restaurants, water taxis.†   (source)
  • Nameless, he marched in step on the long unrepeatable promenade between the divided regiment.†   (source)
  • I reached the promenade, a big shopping mall that took up the whole middle of the ship, and I stopped cold.†   (source)
  • At the bottom was the Promenade-a mall full of shops— but that's not what had caught Annabeth's attention.†   (source)
  • Even though it was late Friday afternoon, traffic was light on the main street, and there were fewer than a dozen pedestrians moving slowly beneath the covered promenade.†   (source)
  • When we reached the central promenade of the mall, the whole area ballooned: four stories high, escalators and elevators crisscrossing in the black.†   (source)
  • The promenade wasn't much to look at, a wide, crumbling paved area, dotted with litter, evidence of the island's half-hearted attempts to attract tourists.†   (source)
  • They stared at each other, dazzled, and from that moment on they sought out every possible occasion to meet on the leafy promenades of the nearby park, where they walked with their arms full of books or dragging Alba's heavy cello in its case.†   (source)
  • Four would rise through a central tower to an interior bridge 220 feet above the floor, which in turn would lead to an exterior promenade offering foot-tingling views of the distant Michigan shore, "a panorama," as one guidebook later put it, "such as never before has been accorded to mortals."†   (source)
  • Day 11 Dinner tonight in the salon above the promenade deck with Citizen Heremis Denzel, a retired professor from a small planters" college near Endymion.†   (source)
  • The camp was an enormous promenade of young people milling and walking in the fire lanes and huddling in the lee of barracks.†   (source)
  • From what I can see from the observation promenade and the mooring tower, there can't be more than five thousand people living in that random collection of hovels and barracks.†   (source)
  • When the Witch had made him leave the antiques shop, he'd walked beneath the shaded promenade and stopped in front of the ice cream shop, lured there by the odors of chocolate and vanilla.†   (source)
  • Eyewitnesses later filled in what I could not see: parents' cameras flashing, floodlights making a second day as the gorgeous couples disembark from limos and borrowed convertibles and promenade to the festive courts.†   (source)
  • I figured we'd have to sneak around, being stowaways and all, but after checking a few corridors and peering over a bal-cony into a huge central promenade lined with closed shops, I began to realize there was nobody to hide from.†   (source)
  • He ran along the Ruby Pier Promenade, beneath magnificent buildings of moorish design with spires and minarets and onion-shaped domes.†   (source)
  • The only spot from which the door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building.†   (source)
  • Frank watched as one of the creatures lumbered across the promenade, snuffling and licking the pavement with its long tongue.†   (source)
  • Gleaming towers, tree-lined public spaces and promenades, a series of canals allowing commuters to get almost anywhere by boat.†   (source)
  • In fact, she makes special mention of this pier, upon which I have been promenading for the past half-hour, recommending particularly that it be visited in the evening when it becomes lit up with bulbs of various colours.†   (source)
  • Voices rose ten stories from the gardens and promenades, a roar that echoed and swirled through the vast gallery, mixing with noises from the tiers, with shuffling feet and chiming bells, the hum of escalators, the sound of people eating, the human buzz of some vivid and happy transaction.†   (source)
  • There was a theatre of benches, and a promenade; stalls were set out under the trees, and glasses of whisky, and colored ribbons, were sold.†   (source)
  • The cheering was deafening as the drums began to roll and the A Company seniors began the promenade of honor between the two immense files of underclassmen.†   (source)
  • In 1881, Charlestonians promenading along the Battery were more than mildly surprised to see the forty-foot whale entering the main channel of Charleston harbor.†   (source)
  • I like to think of him walking the streets of Charleston as I walked them, and it pleases me to think that the city watched him, felt the shimmer of his madness and genius in his slouching promenades along Meeting Street.†   (source)
  • There was the faint rustle of small wings, the secret transit of spiders, the waxy promenades of huge roaches down the concrete galleries, the sudden blaze of fireflies, and sometimes the brown speed of rats scuttling toward garbage.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Gervais lived in mortal dread that someone who mattered, someone prominent in the thinly oxygenated heights of Charleston society, would spot Annie Kate during one of her nocturnal promenades through the quiet streets or while she distractedly picked flowers and nervously paced the brick pathways of their desultory garden.†   (source)
  • He strolled out on to the promenade deck.†   (source)
  • A flight of stone steps connected it with the promenade above.†   (source)
  • Young people promenaded, but in rapid time, so you felt flirtation and desperate flying, both.†   (source)
  • Unpainted and unfurnished, without a pane of glass or a doorknob or hinge in it, twelve miles from town and almost that far from any neighbor, it stood for three years more surrounded by its formal gardens and promenades, its slave quarters and stables and smokehouses; wild turkey ranged within a mile of the house and deer came light and colored like smoke and left delicate prints in the formal beds where there would be no flowers for four years yet.†   (source)
  • And immediately a murder occurs-and I send the vegetable marrows to promenade themselves to the devil.†   (source)
  • He was a sensitive man, and his promenades about his estate were checked by inhibited places: the cornice of the long girdling porch where a lodger had hanged himself one day at dawn, the spot in the hall where the consumptive had collapsed in a hemorrhage, the room where the old man cut his throat.†   (source)
  • I waited for her by the lift on the main deck; when she came we walked once round the promenade; I held the rail; she took my other arm.†   (source)
  • The idea of the insulating horse, to keep the hero out of immediate touch with the earth and yet permit him to promenade among the peoples of the world, is a vivid example of a basic precaution taken generally by the carriers of supernormal power.†   (source)
  • There were wonderful trees along the promenade above the beach, and there were many children sent down with their nurses before the season opened.†   (source)
  • I looked across the garden where in the light of the moon several couples promenaded down the paths between the low hedges.†   (source)
  • It happened again and again until it became automatic, a matter of routine, like those promenades on board ship when we meet the same people bent on exercise like ourselves, and know with deadly certainty that we will pass them by the bridge.†   (source)
  • Our townsfolk were amazed to find such busy centers as the Place d'Armes, the boulevards, the promenade along the waterfront, dotted with repulsive little corpses.†   (source)
  • The kind of promenading white that the houses of Bishop Whipple, W. B. Jackson and the Vanderpool's wore.†   (source)
  • The air was sharp, the stars pricking, the roosters sounding off, and the never-sleeping element of Mexican towns came to see us take out the eagle, with the same solemnness about it as at the Sunday promenade of a holy image, and, as everywhere, said to one another, astonished, "Es un aguila!"†   (source)
  • Then my brother and I continued our promenade in silence, and I reflected that Mr. Davis was a good man.†   (source)
  • Later when it began to get dark, I walked around the harbor and out along the promenade, and finally back to the hotel for supper.†   (source)
  • As the churchmen walked up and down the promenade, watching the stars come out, their talk touched upon many matters, but they avoided politics, as men are apt to do in dangerous times.†   (source)
  • I looked around at the bay, the old town, the casino, the line of trees along the promenade, and the big hotels with their white porches and gold-lettered names.†   (source)
  • "Hoy toid"—from the promenading youths.†   (source)
  • Voice of SIMEONOV PISCHIN "Promenade a une paire!"†   (source)
  • As he approached the promenade, the stars began to come through the white crests of the high Alps.†   (source)
  • Now we can get on with our promenade, for all I care.†   (source)
  • The lights of the promenade went off, went on again.†   (source)
  • Seven hours in heavy, rain-sodden coats, with battle gear—this was no promenade.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp was fed up with such promenades.†   (source)
  • Julie never missed a ball, a promenade, or a play.†   (source)
  • She promenaded a second time, and was again the sole wanderer there.†   (source)
  • once more, was choked with happy promenaders.†   (source)
  • Passepartout was promenading up and down in the forward part of the steamer.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    [Illustration]
    IX
    PROMENADE
    (FAUST, walking thoughtfully up and down.†   (source)
  • Each clasping the other round the waist they promenaded over the dry bed of fir-needles, thrown into a vague intoxicating atmosphere at the consciousness of being together at last, with no living soul between them; ignoring that there was a corpse.†   (source)
  • All right, Garibaldi, just shoot me in that steak, with about two printers'—reams of French fried spuds on the promenade deck, comprehenez-vous, Michelovitch Angeloni?†   (source)
  • to himself, she no longer felt, or from some capricious instinct which might, at any moment, revive in her, he would lean, in impotent anguish, blinded and dizzy, over the bottomless abyss into which had passed, in which had been engulfed those years of his own, early in MacMahon's Septennat, in which one spent the winter on the Promenade des Anglais, the summer beneath the limes of Baden, and would find in those years a sad but splendid profundity, such as a poet might have lent to them; and he would have devoted to the reconstruction of all the insignificant details that made up the daily round on the Cote d'Azur in those days, if it could have helped him to understand somethin†   (source)
  • And I asked them to take a duster and dust around a little where the nobilities had mainly lodged and promenaded; but they considered that that would be hardly worth while, and would moreover be a rather grave departure from custom, and therefore likely to make talk.†   (source)
  • In the glow he seemed to see Phillotson promenading at ease, like one of the forms in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace.†   (source)
  • He was to be heard— always he was to be heard: singing on the promenade deck, defending Bolshevism against the boatswain, arguing oil-burning with the First Officer, and explaining to the bar steward how to make a gin sling.†   (source)
  • On the Promenade des Anglais, where Ned Silverton hung on him for the half hour before dinner, he received a deeper impression of the general insecurity.†   (source)
  • Over on the promenade the Casino, the smart shops, and the great hotels turned blank iron masks to the summer sea.†   (source)
  • As the sisters sat over their tea talking, the elder began to boast of the advantages of town life: saying how comfortably they lived there, how well they dressed, what fine clothes her children wore, what good things they ate and drank, and how she went to the theatre, promenades, and entertainments.†   (source)
  • There was also promenading, and the steam organ attached to a small roundabout filled the air with a pungent flavour of oil and with equally pungent music.†   (source)
  • There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas lamps as ever there had been.†   (source)
  • Presently, just as the Commander absorbed in his reflections was on the point of turning aft in his promenade, he became sensible of Claggart's presence, and saw the doffed cap held in deferential expectancy.†   (source)
  • But now, do get on with your promenade!†   (source)
  • They soon reached the summit of the hill, and, evidently intending this point to be the limit of their promenade, slackened pace and turned all three aside to the gate whereat Tess had paused an hour before that time to reconnoitre the town before descending into it.†   (source)
  • Ah—and there were the ladies signalling from the balcony of the hotel....He plunged across the Promenade, leaving Selden to a meditative cigar.†   (source)
  • He looked at his watch, and, in pursuit of this idea, he went on till he came to a public hall, where a promenade concert was in progress.†   (source)
  • For although the few gun-room officers there at the time had, in due observance of naval etiquette, withdrawn to leeward the moment Captain Vere had begun his promenade on the deck's weather-side; and tho' during the colloquy with Claggart they of course ventured not to diminish the distance; and though throughout the interview Captain Vere's voice was far from high, and Claggart's silvery and low; and the wind in the cordage and the wash of the sea helped the more to put them beyond earshot; nevertheless, the interview's continuance already had attracted observation from some topmen aloft and other sailors in the waist or further forward.†   (source)
  • This fashionable watering-place, with its eastern and its western stations, its piers, its groves of pines, its promenades, and its covered gardens, was, to Angel Clare, like a fairy place suddenly created by the stroke of a wand, and allowed to get a little dusty.†   (source)
  • A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed.†   (source)
  • He took another cross street, and without breasting the throng on the Promenade, made his way to the fashionable club which overlooks that thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Selden, stumbling on a chance acquaintance, had dined with him, and adjourned, still in his company, to the brightly lit Promenade, where a line of crowded stands commanded the glittering darkness of the waters.†   (source)
  • Well then, in his mysterious little difficulty, going in quest of the wrinkled one, Billy found him off duty in a dog-watch ruminating by himself, seated on a shot-box of the upper gun deck, now and then surveying with a somewhat cynical regard certain of the more swaggering promenaders there.†   (source)
  • The increasing commotion made him break off; presently it came to a serpentine head on the promenade and a group, presently a crowd, of people sprung from hidden siestas, lined the curbstone.†   (source)
  • When Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd; that glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears.†   (source)
  • Selden and his companion, unable to get seats on one of the stands facing the bay, had wandered for a while with the throng, and then found a point of vantage on a high garden-parapet above the Promenade.†   (source)
  • The hostess—she was another tall rich American girl, promenading insouciantly upon the national prosperity—was asking Dick innumerable questions about Gausse's Hôtel, whither she evidently wanted to come, and battering persistently against his reluctance.†   (source)
  • Then came the eve of departure, when Joachim did everything for the last time—each meal, each rest cure, each promenade—and took his leave of the doctors and the head nurse.†   (source)
  • Down the lantern-hung Promenade, snatches of band-music floated above the hum of the crowd and the soft tossing of boughs in dusky gardens; and between these gardens and the backs of the stands there flowed a stream of people in whom the vociferous carnival mood seemed tempered by the growing languor of the season.†   (source)
  • The flatland spirit was still strong within him, and he made fun of the things he had been taught, just as he had made fun of the prescribed promenade after breakfast.†   (source)
  • And so after breakfast, he boldly took his departure from Joachim—who dutifully started out on his measured promenade up to the bench beside the water trough—and swinging his walking stick, he now marched off down the main road on his own.†   (source)
  • The little house where Karen Karstedt lived was on the road leading into Dorf, not far from the brook and the train tracks, and so it was easy for the cousins to stop for her when setting out on their promenade after breakfast.†   (source)
  • Set well back from Harvestehuder Weg, the Tienappel home was fronted by a large garden; to the rear it looked out on a lawn where not the tiniest weed was permitted, a public promenade with roses, and beyond it, the river.†   (source)
  • Nothing, then, could be more obvious than that the first rest cure would be followed by a lavish second breakfast, leading inevitably to a promenade down to Platz, whereupon Hans Castorp tied his uncle up again—tied him up, there was no other word for it—and left him lying there under an autumn sun in a lounge chair whose comfort was quite indisputable, indeed laudable, just as he himself lay there until the vibrating gong called them back into the society of patients' for their midday meal, which turned out to be first-class, tip-top, and so lavish that the ensuing rest cure was more than mere custom, but a true necessity performed out of personal conviction.†   (source)
  • But, whoops, gentlemen, do get on with your promenade!" he cried, sticking both enormous forefingers in his mouth and giving a whistle so euphonious that the teacher and Miss Robinson, both shrunk in size, came flying through the air from different directions and sat down on the director's shoulders, one to the right, one to the left, just as they sat on either side of Hans Castorp in the dining hall.†   (source)
  • HANS CASTORP learned the general outline and details of all this in conversations with Naphta himself during visits to his silken cell, either alone or accompanied by his tablemates, Ferge and Wehsal, whom he had introduced there; or he might meet him out on a promenade and stroll back with him to Dorf.†   (source)
  • They took their walks together, dutifully promenaded three times a day, but only the limited distance expressly prescribed by the director to avoid all unnecessary expenditure of energy.†   (source)
  • To the sound of sleigh bells, the idle, pleasure-loving rich from all over the world, residents of the Kurhaus and the other large hotels, promenaded—bareheaded, clad in the latest sports outfits of the most expensive fabrics, and bronzed by the winter sun reflected off the snow.†   (source)
  • Your talons shall be tangled in its entrails and your beak shall drip with blood—" He was bursting with enthusiasm, and that was the end of the promenaders' interest in Naphu and Settembrini's antinomies.†   (source)
  • He would live there in the world of the flatlands, among people who had not the vaguest about how one had to live, about thermometers, about the art of wrapping oneself, about fur-lined sleeping bags, about three promenades a day, about—it was difficult to say, difficult to enumerate all the things people down there did not know about; but the notion that Joachim, after having spent more than a year and a half up here, would now be living among such ignorant people, that notion, which applied only to Joachim—and merely from a great distance and only quite hypothetically to himself—so confused Hans Castorp that he closed his eyes and dismissed it with a gesture of his hand.†   (source)
  • Then, as prescribed, they promenaded to the bench beside the wooden trough, and afterward James Tienappel enjoyed his first hour of rest cure, to which practice he was introduced by his nephew, who supplemented the plaid roll James had brought along with a camel-hair blanket of his own—one being more than enough for Hans Castorp, given the lovely autumn weather—and instructed his uncle, step by step, in the traditional art of wrapping oneself; in fact, once the consul had been transformed into a smooth, cylindrical mummy, Hans Castorp undid it all, in order to have his uncle repeat the whole established procedure on his own, intervening only occasionally to improve his technique.†   (source)
  • Knowing that the slightest frown was sufficient to terrify and cow the pitiful, sensitive fellow, he tolerated Wehsal's servile habit of seizing every opportunity to bow and scrape, sometimes allowed him to carry his overcoat on their promenades—and Wehsal would bear it over one arm with a kind of reverence—and even put up with the Mannheimer's conversation, and very gloomy conversation it was.†   (source)
  • If it had not been for those infallible figures which proved that Arthur, instead of pining in imprisonment, ought to be promenading in a carriage and pair, and that Mr Pancks, instead of being restricted to his clerkly wages, ought to have from three to five thousand pounds of his own at his immediate disposal, that unhappy arithmetician would probably have taken to his bed, and there have made one of the many obscure persons who turned their faces to the wall and died, as a last sacrifice to the late Mr Merdle's greatness.†   (source)
  • During this time two black spiders, of the kind common in thatched houses, promenaded the ceiling, ultimately dropping to the floor.†   (source)
  • Though the two women did not know it these external features were but the ancient defences of the town, planted as a promenade.†   (source)
  • He smiled ironically, looking at the raven horse, and was already deciding in his own mind that this smart trotter in the char-a-banc was only good for promenade, and wouldn't do thirty miles straight off in the heat.†   (source)
  • The curtain fell almost immediately after the entrance of Madame Danglars into her box, the band quitted the orchestra for the accustomed half-hour's interval allowed between the acts, and the audience were left at liberty to promenade the salon or lobbies, or to pay and receive visits in their respective boxes.†   (source)
  • His hat presents at the rims a peculiar appearance of a glistening nature, as if it had been a favourite snail-promenade.†   (source)
  • The window in the provinces replaces the theatre and the promenade, she was amusing herself with watching the crowd of boors when she saw a gentleman in a green velvet coat.†   (source)
  • Two men were promenading up and down the wharves, among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourning at this once straggling village—now, thanks to the enterprise of M. Lesseps, a fast-growing town.†   (source)
  • Their decease made no impression on the other flies out promenading, who looked at them in the coolest manner (as if they themselves were elephants, or something as far removed), until they met the same fate.†   (source)
  • She gently spoke his name, and the animal, an old pet and playmate of hers, instantly, wagging his tail, prepared to follow her, though apparently revolving much, in this simple dog's head, what such an indiscreet midnight promenade might mean.†   (source)
  • The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to this detail.†   (source)
  • "What a monstrous fine girl that is in the lodgings over the milliner's," one of these three promenaders remarked to the other; "Gad, Crawley, did you see what a wink she gave me as I passed?"†   (source)
  • I have induced you to take a charming promenade; here is a delicious breakfast; and yonder are five hundred persons, as you may see through the loopholes, taking us for heroes or madmen—two classes of imbeciles greatly resembling each other.†   (source)
  • I could not help admiring his persistency, as well as the hunter's, who treated our expedition like a mere promenade.†   (source)
  • That was a promenading!†   (source)
  • Hetty's was a spring-tide beauty; it was the beauty of young frisking things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of innocence—the innocence of a young star-browed calf, for example, that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe steeplechase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the middle of a bog.†   (source)
  • It was one of those spring days which possesses so much sweetness and beauty, that all Paris turns out into the squares and promenades and celebrates them as though they were Sundays.†   (source)
  • By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.†   (source)
  • dey do make sucre in Martinique; mais—mais ce n'est pas one tree—ah—ah—vat you call—je voudrois que ces chemins fussent au diable — vat you call—steeck pour la promenade?†   (source)
  • Newman got up and stood leaning against the mantel-shelf, with his hands in his pockets, watching Bellegarde's promenade.†   (source)
  • He never goes with Flo, always gets on my side of the carriage, table, or promenade, looks sentimental when we are alone, and frowns at anyone else who ventures to speak to me.†   (source)
  • She not merely avoided all external forms of pleasure—balls, promenades, concerts, and theaters—but she never laughed without a sound of tears in her laughter.†   (source)
  • There are, invariably, two naves, which intersect in a cross, and whose upper portion, rounded into an apse, forms the choir; there are always the side aisles, for interior processions, for chapels,—a sort of lateral walks or promenades where the principal nave discharges itself through the spaces between the pillars.†   (source)
  • The trooper yielding to this invitation, he and Mr. Bagnet, not to embarrass the domestic preparations, go forth to take a turn up and down the little street, which they promenade with measured tread and folded arms, as if it were a rampart.†   (source)
  • After leaving the Three Mariners he had sauntered up and down the empty High Street, passing and repassing the inn in his promenade.†   (source)
  • In vain the doors of the upper entry had been locked; the ghost either carried a duplicate key in its pocket, or availed itself of a ghost's immemorial privilege of coming through the keyhole, and promenaded as before, with a freedom that was alarming.†   (source)
  • Newman paced up and down this quiet promenade for the greater part of the next day and let his eyes wander over the historic prospect; but he would have been sadly at a loss to tell you afterwards whether the latter was made up of coal-fields or of vineyards.†   (source)
  • "Miss Marsch, I haf a great favor to ask of you," began the Professor, after a moist promenade of half a block.†   (source)
  • A footpath ran steeply down the green slope, conducting from the shady promenade on the walls to a road at the bottom of the scarp.†   (source)
  • He never lost a sense of its being pitiable that Valentin should think it a large life to revolve in varnished boots between the Rue d'Anjou and the Rue de l'Universite, taking the Boulevard des Italiens on the way, when over there in America one's promenade was a continent, and one's Boulevard stretched from New York to San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities—Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians—were collected.†   (source)
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