A half-charred, half-shattered corpse was carried towards them; the fact of its lying beneath the fallen rubbish of stones had preserved it from being completely burned.
She lost herself completely in the breath of the fairy tale and flowery land, that is so lovely in its dreams and so vast in its thoughts.
Thus the Order was completely secularised, and by this brilliant example the Order of wilful old bachelors equally so, as was demonstrated by the master himself, and his friend, the Prussian heathen.
She felt herself to be completely in his power, thus everything that she had done to free herself from him, even Beate's criminal proceeding, was all in vain.
Two of them were completely covered with tarpaulin, and roped; the third was partly open at the top.
Then they carried him a few yards into the thicket, and laid him down in a spot where he was completely hidden from any one who might pass within arm's length of him.
But in the surge of elation that swept through him, hecompletely forgot the pain.
As an intelligence officer, Zen was accustomed to asking the questions, but this nurse had completely turned the tables on him.
She got completely the upper hand of that poor little thing.
She had been completely unsuccessful, which was a thing which had very rarely happened to her.
Bee had laid down her book in her lap; her thoughts had strayed completely from it and gone back to her own troubles, when the door of the drawing-room opened quietly and a servant announced “Mrs. Leigh.
But I am not sure that she was so completelysatisfied as she professed to be.
How real, how natural, how completely herself and ready for any emergency this visitor was!
In the evening Bee was thus completely alone, listening to the distant bumps in the passage, and the voices of the players.
It was true that she had rejected him, had almost laughed at him, had sent him away so completely broken down and miserable that he had not cared what became of him.
The attendance at the services now increased so as completelyto fill the rooms.
With so deep an experience it was only natural that the whole course of her outward life should be completely changed.
When he had completely twined himself around his parents' hearts he was taken away, for after a few days' illness he died when only eight months old.
But the relief came too late, for Mrs. Judson's constitution was completely undermined by the privations she had endured.
Above all was she happy in the fact that she came so early and so completely under the power of saving faith in the Lord Jesus and under the renewing power of the Holy Spirit.
One as long accustomed to be alone as himself would naturally submit to some such sensation, our habits getting so completely the mastery as often to supplant even nature.
Here he completely overlaid the art of Ungque, turning his own defeat into an advantage.
Waring seemed astounded; but was so completely mystified as not to suspect the truth.
Never before have I seen red men so completely under the control of a chief.
How is it that he has so completely got the ears of all the red men, far and near?
The reach, moreover, was short, making a completely sheltered haven of the Kalamazoo, within its limits.
This rapid and highly military measure, on the part of the British, completely cut off the post of Chicago, at the head of Lake Michigan, leaving it isolated, on what was then a very remote wilderness.
Once fairly within the influence of Peter's wiles, a simple-minded soldier like the corporal, was sooncompletely made the Indian's dupe.
His habits had completely put him out of favor at the former place; and a certain restlessness urged him to penetrate still farther into the wilderness.
By a fortunate coincidence, the result completely justified the prediction.
So completely were the Americans subdued by Hull's capitulation, and so numerous were the Indian allies of the British, that the passage of a bark canoe, more or less, would hardly have attracted attention.
Adeline was completely crushed; sobs choked her utterance; but at last the tears came in torrents.
And Sans-Cravate sank upon a chair; he could not speak, he could not see; his forehead was burning, he was completely crushed by his grief.
Madame Plays was not disturbed about Albert, but she was fully determined to be revenged on little Tobie, who had hoodwinked her so completely with his alleged duel and was responsible for her having exhaled an odor of tobacco for two months.
Tobie denied it nothing, until it was completely satisfied.
You don't realize how completely you're bowled over, I mean t'say.
You--you've chosen to drop out of my--out of our lives so completely that I hardly like to ask you to come and see us.
They're designed so any fool can tell what to do, and the navigational settings are completely automatic.
Of course, you realize that means you're putting yourselfcompletely in my power.
You had no more reason to trust mecompletely than I had to trust you.
After experiments with coloured screens he completely solved the problem in 1893, with the aid of apparatus supplied by Sir Oliver Lodge and some advice from Sir Gabriel Stokes, by photographing the spectrum on such a plate.
Thus, after the lapse of nearly half a century, was Lord Danby's design completely realised.
His figures of the process of fertilisation are extremely interesting as they show how completely he was dominated by the theory of Schleiden to which allusion has already been made.
The passion for research now completely possessed Ward and never left him for the rest of his life.
The ships were completely covered with snow, an inch thick, at least, even though the roll of the vessels shook off the flakes continually.
The wind was unfortunately rising fast, and the day had completely changed.
When once the Japanese Ananias had fully embarked upon the marvellous, his imagination carried him away morecompletely than ever the villagers could be.
The creature let its tongue rest till it was completely covered over with thousands of ants, then it drew it into its mouth and engulfed them all!
There were also many kinds of ferns, which sometimes arched over their heads and completely shut out the view, while some of them crept up the trees like climbing-plants.
In a few minutes the ship's course was completely altered; a cloud of canvas spread out from the yards, and the Firefly bounded on her course like a fresh race-horse.
The suddenness of the attack completely routed him--its suddenness; but more than its suddenness was a leaping question in his own mind.
She had been so certain that he had no ulterior purpose, and so completely satisfied with her own way of living, that her rather snuggling friendliness with him was as honest as a boy's.
At this remark the astronomer's countenance completely changed.
I won't," said the Prophet, feeling completely dazed.
Lady Enid, who had meant to coach Mrs. Bridgeman very carefully for the meeting with Sir Tiglath, but whose plans were completely upset by the astronomer's premature advent, now endeavoured to interpose.
At the thought of this so long foregone enchantment Malkiel's emotion completely overcame him, his voice died away, overborne by a violent fit of choking, and he sat back in his cane chair trembling in every limb.
Having uttered herself, Mrs. Fancy, according to her invariable custom when completely terrified, displayed all the semblance of clear-sighted composure and explanatory discrimination.
Good gracious, I hadcompletely forgotten all about them.
I look upon it as completely settled, and then I shall have only Lionel to dispose of.
Upon my word, I think you’re quite right,” he said at last, as though completely persuaded.
He was still holding her; but in that instant her manner had completely changed again; the old Susy seemed to have slipped away and evaded him, and he was retaining only a conscious actress in his arms.
These at once scattered, and those on the stairs, finding themselves unable to get forward, for the narrow passage was now completely choked with the dead, made their way out again and rejoined their comrades.
The governor of the fort, seeing that if, as was certain, the lower town were captured by the Swedes, he should be cut off from all communication with the castle and completely isolated, surrendered to Sir John Hepburn.
In the meantime Tilly had attacked King Christian at Lutter, and completelydefeated him.
The Imperial forces then marched to Bohemia and attacked Frederick's army outside Prague, and in less than an hour completely defeated it.
Some thirty peasants lay with their clothes completely burned from their bodies, the greater portion of them dead, but some still writhing in agony.
It was well that he did so, for just when he had passed over the intervening ground the Imperialist cavalry, fresh from the defeat of the Swedes, swept across the ground, completely cutting off Horn's division from that of the duke.
John of Werth, who commanded the Imperial cavalry, charged down upon the Swedish horsemen and overthrew them so completely that these, forced back upon their infantry, threw them also into complete disorder.
Thekla was still asleep under the covering, which completelyconcealed her.
He was taken to be the tool of the captain of the slaver, and he disappeared so completelythat it was supposed he had escaped to the ship.
So he came up jauntily, behind Mr. Spokesly, smoking a special cigarette, and ignoring his chief officer completely until the latter chose to speak.
And he had been completely nonplussed when his gentle, blonde, and slightly angular young wife had displayed not merely a tepid lack of interest but downright dislike.
Her father belonged to that little-known and completely misunderstood fraternity--the comitadji of the Balkans.
But that mood was gone and he sat here on Mr. Spokesly's settee, smoking a cigarette, completely normal and master of himself.
He was reclining completely inert, gazing moodily across the crowded restaurant.
When Mr. Dainopoulos remarked that he had called on a little matter of business, the major bent his head again and went on investigating the papers in the safe, as though Mr. Dainopoulos had suddenly and completely evaporated.
Until a nation has completely vindicated its right to exist, it is hard for it to settle down and make its life worth living.
It looked as if the Greek effort after independence would be completely crushed, and as if Sultan Mahmud would succeed in getting his empire under control.
The Germans exploited their ecclesiastical influence in order completely to dominate the Slavs politically, and as a result the latter were only allowed to see the Church through Teutonic glasses.
The masses of the people have remained all but completely outside political life.
National life was completely paralysed, and what stood in those days for national consciousness was obliterated.
After this disaster the unity of the Serbian state was completely destroyed, and it has never since been restored in the same measure.
In villages completely inhabited by Rumanians so-called 'State' schools were founded, in which only Hungarian was to be spoken, and all children upwards of three years of age had to attend them.
In this the Bulgars were completely successful under the leadership of one Krum, whom, in the elation of victory, they promptly elected to the throne.
The creation of an independent Albania completely altered the situation.
However, it was eight o'clock in the evening before the palace was completely cleared.
There were eight road bridges and two railway bridges crossing the river within the British section, but all had been completely destroyed except one road bridge at Venizel which our engineers repaired.
She was completely riddled by shot, and her end had come.
On 22nd September the Russians closed in on the place, and soon completely surrounded it.
No true soldiers ever like to retreat, least of all British soldiers; but retreat could not now be avoided unless our little army was to be completely cut off.
It was one of the boldest moves ever made, and it took the enemy completely by surprise.
He had completely deceived the enemy, and had obtained valuable information as to their numbers and the positions which they held.
Should these movements succeed, Verdun would be completely encircled, and long before this happened, the French army holding the semicircle about the fortress would be obliged to fall back.
Meanwhile what had happened to the 1st Austrian Army, nowcompletely cut off from the routed 2nd Army?
Now steam and electricity have worked a complete revolution; and the resulting immensely increased ease of communication has in its turn completely changed all the physical questions of human life.
In many cases, as where invaders with weapons of bronze or iron conquered the neolithic peoples, the higher civilization completelydestroyed the lower civilization, or barbarism, with which it came in contact.
In the towns and cities the needs of the family are even more completelysupplied from without.
It is impossible to unravel completely the skein of difficulties in which the people are enmeshed, or to simplify the causes of the tangle.
Then Maude fell to asking Quincy questions about himself, to which he returned evasive and untruthful answers, until she was, as she said, completely disgusted.
I never knew of an author so completely successful at the start, and I think you have every encouragement to make literature your 'love of a lifetime.
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