But the truth is, that I was drunk with excitement.
He pursued a gentleman, madame, and they fought till Count Fritz came; and the other gentleman took my father's horse from me and rode away; but the King is here with Count Fritz.
But the King is almost a stranger; he has been so much abroad, not one in ten knows him even by sight.
Suddenly Fritz smote on his thigh: "But the guard!
But the child, unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through the open window, and stood on the upper step, looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage, ready to take flight into the upper air.
But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!
But the frown of this pale, weak, sinful, and sorrow-stricken man was what Hester could not bear, and live!
But the brook, in the course of its little lifetime among the forest trees, had gone through so solemn an experience that it could not help talking about it, and seemed to have nothing else to say.
Lights were not uncommon this evening, but thenature of all of them was different from this.
But the effect of coming into society and light after lonely wandering in darkness is a sociability in the comer above its usual pitch, expressed in the features even more than in words.
But the bird, like many other philosophers, seemed as he looked at the reddleman to think that a present moment of comfortable reality was worth a decade of memories.
But the loss of his labour produced little effect upon the reddleman.
That this way was, of all others, the most distressing to himself, was awkward enough; but the reddleman's love was generous.
Neither of us had come through the conflict unscathed, but the marvelous, healing salves of Barsoom had sufficed, overnight, to make us as good as new.
But the roar--the awful, deafening roar of those tumbling waters penned in the rocky, subterranean vault!
In despair I tried to force the thing, but the cold, unyielding stone might well have laughed at my futile, puny endeavors.
But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.
Wilt thou not place a stumbling block in my way--but that thou wouldst clear my way before me, and hedge not up my way, but the ways of mine enemy.
A half dozen, perhaps, had escaped; but the balance, with the exception of the five prisoners, had expiated their crimes before the nickel jacketed bullets of the legionaries.
The pelt of a leopard covered the nakedness of the youth; but the wearing of it had not been dictated by any prompting of modesty.
The sun had not yet set; but the shadows of the few trees huddled about the water hole and of his men and their horses stretched far away into the east across the now golden sand.
There were the fifty with their lambs, enclosed at the other end as he had left them, but the rest, forming the bulk of the flock, were nowhere.
Bathsheba paused, as if about to refuse a reply, but the temptation to say yes, since it was really in her power was irresistible by aspiring virginity, in spite of her spleen at having been published as old.
But the smallness of the exception made the mystery.
The wind continued to beat-about the corners of the hut, but the flute-playing ceased.
It was the unvaying custom in Weatherbury to sink minor differences when the maltster had to be pacified.
That outer loose lock of hair wants tidying, he said, before she had moved or spoken.
A vehicle of some kind was softly creeping along the grassy margin of the lane.
But for all the hurry of his coming, these were not the dews of exertion that he wiped away, but themoisture of some strangling anguish; for his face was white and his voice, when he spoke, harsh and broken.
But the moment he began to bully her and to be unjust, she began to draw away; at first in tearful amazement, then in quiet, unspoken disgust.
But the stained, slippery grass, the darkened mulberries, told only half the story.
But the way to make Frank want anything was to tell him he couldn't have it.
With a loud hiss the creature abandoned its prey to turn upon me, but the spear, imbedded in its throat, prevented it from seizing me though it came near to overturning the skiff in its mad efforts to reach me.
The noise had not been loud--I doubt if the Sagoths heard it at all--but the suggestion of latent possibilities behind it was such that I knew it would only emanate from a gigantic and ferocious beast.
But the minute we started to skip out the professor says, "No, you don't!
I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing.
But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
One of them again answered him: "We indeed wish you well, but the danger is not over.
This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh.
She could gather nothing from them but the feeling of a distinct necessity to quit her home in the morning.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
His periods of reserve were not constitutional, but the result of moods.
But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her.
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
The potential for a tourist industry exists, but the remoteness of the location and a lack of adequate facilities hinder development.
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