Clacton would come in to search for a certain
leaflet buried beneath a pyramid of
leaflets.
He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist
leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him.
The Tatler, like Defoe's Review, was a
leaflet of two or three pages, published three times a week.
This poor feeble boy of eighteen--exhausted by disease--looked for all the world as weak and frail as a
leaflet torn from its parent tree and trembling in the breeze; but no sooner had his eye swept over his audience, for the first time during the whole of the last hour, than the most contemptuous, the most haughty expression of repugnance lighted up his face.
Do you see what day it is?" he added, tearing a
leaflet from a Shakespearian calendar, as I drained my glass.
The footman, who was distributing
leaflets with Kutuzov's cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the principal guests.
His tottering steps were supported by a long slim staff, resembling the wand with which a theatrical magician appears on the stage, and in one hand he carried a freshly plaited fan of the green
leaflets of the cocoanut tree.
"And when we travel by Electricity if I may venture to develop your theory we shall have
leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page."
He talked with a quartermaster off duty, an intelligent man who promptly prodded him with the socialist propaganda and forced into his hands a bunch of
leaflets and pamphlets.
But this superadded consciousness, wearying and annoying enough when it urged on me the trivial experience of indifferent people, became an intense pain and grief when it seemed to be opening to me the souls of those who were in a close relation to me--when the rational talk, the graceful attentions, the wittily-turned phrases, and the kindly deeds, which used to make the web of their characters, were seen as if thrust asunder by a microscopic vision, that showed all the intermediate frivolities, all the suppressed egoism, all the struggling chaos of puerilities, meanness, vague capricious memories, and indolent make-shift thoughts, from which human words and deeds emerge like
leaflets covering a fermenting heap.
The agent stared still more, but assented civilly, and led the other into an office littered with
leaflets and hung all round with highly colored posters which linked the name of Hughes with all the higher interests of humanity.
I used to take there books--
leaflets. Not a few of the poor people who live there can read.