It was not a sensation to the survivors to see it about them.
People residing near the Salvation headquarters were in constant danger of annoyance from the mobs that gathered about them.
He spoke first of the wide publication of my sermons in England, and questioned me about them.
It happened to be a fine day, clear and mild, with little air stirring, and even the most tearful of the passengers soon began to feel the influence of the fine air and lively scenes about them.
The sea, black and turbulent, still rolled heavily, but with diminishing motion, and its spray made everything damp about them.
Why should she dislike to see her father in the position unreasonable husbands and fathers usually occupy, that of being ostensibly obeyed while in reality they are carefully kept in the dark as to what is going on about them?
There were a thousand other things, which I knew must be most curious, yet did not ask nor care about them, because so many curiosities drive one crazy, and fret one's heart to death.
There were two dusty and tattered banners hanging on the wall, and the attendant promised to make us laugh by something that he would tell us about them.
These cottages are in themselves as ugly as possible, resembling a large kind of pigsty; but often, by dint of the verdure on their thatch and the shrubbery clustering about them, they look picturesque.
The troops had nothing very remarkable about them; but the thousands of ragged and squalid wretches, who thronged the pier and streets to gaze on them, were what I had not seen before in such masses.
But I will visit them personally, as well as sending men to look after them and giving orders about them.
As for Aufidius and Palicanus,[46] I don't think you will expect to hear from me about them.
The old people were telling stories about them fairies, but to the best of my judgment there's nothing in it.
Yet it is hardly to be supposed, that any teacher will judge them all to be alike justifiable, or feel no interest in the questions which have been raised about them.
I heard the doors close, and the sound of footsteps running and dying along the banquette, and after that my shoulders were raised and something wrapped about them.
I should be," said Honora, "if you would only take the trouble to tell me about them.
They had rather a rude manner of staring --especially the men--and the air of deriving infinite amusement from that which went on about them.
Just then a fusillade broke from the thickets, nipping the branches from the cottonwoods about them.
Take them out of their liquor, carefully, with a fork, picking off whatever bits of shell may be about them.
Also, put in two dozen large fine oysters, with what liquor there is about them.
These ornamental oysters must be well drained from any liquid that is about them.
This passage is justly admired by the Mohammedans, who recite it in their prayers; and some of them wear it about them, engraved on an agate or other precious stone.
The ladies, upon the other hand, are not in costume and are not masked; about them, there is no more mystery than women always have about them.
Just putting curious or pretty things here won't do it; so suppose you read up about them, so that when anybody asks questions you can answer them, and understand the matter.
A sackerryfice means to give up what you are fond of, so we must," explained Demi, to whom the new idea had been suggested by hearing Uncle Fritz describe the customs of the Greeks to the big boys who were readingabout them in school.
There was only one good thing about them, if indeed it were good, to wit, their faith to one another, and truth to their wild eyry.
Or send them up for me to hang, without more to do about them?
The housekeeper took an interest in them for a time: but she was soon absorbed in her own affairs and nobody bothered about them.
But so far as the eyes of men are now withdrawn from themselves, and turned upon the inanimate things about them, the results cease to be of importance, and the laws become essential.
Also, he was always anxious to know something definite about them; and his chief books, songs, and pictures were filled with legends about them, or especially devoted to illustration of their lives and nature.
It is deeply to be regretted that these men, perceiving, as they must have done, the great merit of these productions, had not made more particular inquiries about them, and tried to help and save the poet.
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