Vases of ancient form
Vases of ancient shape
Venetian Galley of the Sixteenth Century
Véronique
Vestige of the Architecture of the Goths at Toledo. (Seventh Century.)
Victor Hugo
The studio and the study were very close together. Gautier, Hugo, and Mérimée were all painters in their own right, and there is a difference between the writers who have only seen life from a library, and those who have seen it from behind an easel. The writer who has once felt them can never forget the eye-delighting pleasures of the palette, but composes in colour-schemes, and feels for the tints of words as well as for their melody.
View of a Merawe temple
View of Adélie Land
View of the Ancient Abbey of St. Denis and its Dependencies
Vitalius buried alive at Ravenna
Votive Crown of Suintila, King of the Visigoths from 621 to 631
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Walking dress, 1830
Walking for Exercise. 1.—The right way. 2.—A common way. 3.—A very usual way
Warrior
Warriors of Ombay and Guebeh
Washington
Washington crossing the Alleghany River
Washington had another narrow escape from death. He had expected on reaching the Alleghany River to cross on the ice, but to his dismay he found the ice broken up and the stream filled with whirling blocks. There was no way of getting over except on a raft which he and his companion had to make with a single hatchet. Having at last finished it, they pushed off, and then began a desperate struggle with the current and, great blocks of floating ice. Washington, in trying to guide the raft with a pole, was thrown violently into the water. By catching hold of one of the raft logs he recovered himself, and by heroic effort succeeded in reaching an island nearby. Here the travellers suffered through a night of intense cold, not daring to kindle a fire for fear of the Indians.
Washington's Birthplace
Washington's Birthplace
Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh
Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh
Watches of the Valois Epoch
Watching the Band
Water Snake
We have had a terrible scrap
He: We have had a terrible scrap. “And I came out ahead.” “No. I did. You accepted my apology.”
weather house
Web of the cross spider
Websdale, Shoosmith Ltd
Wedding Rings
When Grandpa thinks of his mother
When they get their rights
“It’s only fair to warn you that my son has never had a father’s care and doesn’t know the first thing about housekeeping.”
When women vote
Mrs. Jones officially notified of her election as sheriff.
Whipping at the carts tayle
The whipping-post was speedily in full force in Boston. At the session of the court held November 30, 1630, one man was [Pg 73]sentenced to be whipped for stealing a loaf of bread; another for shooting fowl on the Sabbath, another for swearing, another for leaving a boat “without a pylott.” Then we read of John Pease that for “stryking his mother and deryding her he shalbe whipt.”
Who is that tramping around overhead
He: Who is that tramping around overhead? She: Oh, that’s only papa. He always gets restless towards morning.
Who passed his days in being fed by his wives
Why aren’t you ready, Isabel
“Why aren’t you ready, Isabel? You know very well the opera begins at eight-fifteen.” “Oh! Gracious! I forgot all about it. I’ve been so busy writing this article on preparedness.”
Widow's dress of Queen Katherine de Valois
William Godwin
William Godwin, the author of An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and of several novels, among them one now most undeservedly half forgotten, called Caleb Williams. It is seldom possible to point to any one book as the sign-post of a literary cross-roads, but there can be no doubt that in Caleb Williams we see the beginnings of self-conscious construction in story-telling.
William Penn
William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania Among the most prominent was William Penn, who was born in London in 1644, the son of Sir William Penn, a wealthy admiral in the British Navy. Conspicuous service to his country had won him great esteem at Court, and he naturally desired to give his son the best possible advantages.
William Pitt, 1788
William the Norman, from Bayeux Tapestry
William White burned at Norwich, England
With the roof of considerable height
Wonderful Equine Intelligence
Wood-block, cut in France
Wreath and Flowers Divider
Wreck of the White Ship, 1120
An example of the impossible-ship picture. There were said to be 300 souls on board! Observe the rudder, which proves the date of the original drawing to be much later than 1120—probably 100 or 150 years.
Writing of the Fifteenth Century, after the First Page of a Breviary
Writing of the Sixth Century, with Capital Letters, from a Manuscript
Writing of the Tenth Century
Writing Thankyou notes
You don’t mean to say, Estelle, that you are tired of settlement work
“You don’t mean to say, Estelle, that you are tired of settlement work?” “But, Auntie, dear, poor people are so monotonous.”
Young Bucks
Young girl
Young Lady with umbrella
Yucatec Stone
Yucatec Stone