This indeed was, as I said, an excursion of his spirits, which were yet agitated by the sense of his loss, and was farther than he could have authority to go.
I could have made a book; but I have a family, and - perhaps I could not make the book after all.
It seemed as smooth as glass, and yet I knew the surf was roaring all along the reef, and indeed, if I had listened, I could have heard it - and saw the white sweep of it outside Matautu.
I look like a cad, if I do in the man's absence what I could have done in a more manly manner in his presence.
Now, imagine if I have been homesick for Barrahead and Island Glass, and Kirkwall, and Cape Wrath, and the Wells of the Pentland Firth; I could have wept.
All at once, I found there was a second skull, with a bullet-hole I could have stuck my two thumbs in - say anybody else's one thumb.
It could have been as revolting to him as is cannibalism to us.
Had there been meat upon them he could have understood, for thus alone might one keep his meat from Dango, the hyena, and the other robbers of the jungle.
Though no one knew of the humiliation but Dunsford, and he had certainly forgotten, Philip felt that he could have no peace till he had wiped it out.
But when an action is performed it is clear that all the forces of the universe from all eternity conspired to cause it, and nothing I could do could have prevented it.
When he discovered that Macalister was a stockbroker he was eager for tips; and Macalister, with his grave smile, told him what fortunes he could have made if he had bought certain stock at certain times.
To make it the more extraordinary, there was no side road at this point down which he could have gone.
The boy's chamber was carefully examined, and yielded nothing save the absolute conviction that it was only through the window that he could have escaped.
That he could have gone on after receiving such an injury said much for the vitality and courage of the man.
If I could have done so, the torment would have ceased.
That he could havechosen to dupe her in so ready a manner seemed a cruel thing.
One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only the long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
A truly deep-dyed villain could have hornswaggled him as readily as he could have flattered a pretty shop-girl.
If we could have such a home as that," said Mrs. Hale sadly, "how delightful it would be.
The little vanity, if he could have perceived it there, would have touched him as a pleasant thing.
Do you imagine that I could havesuch an idea in my head?
It was plain that he could have no serious views, no true attachment, by fixing himself in a situation which he must know she would never stoop to.
The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!
If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were.
For, Hester, his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up, as thine has, beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter.
She was now of an age to run lightly along by her mother's side, and, constantly in motion from morn till sunset, could have accomplished a much longer journey than that before her.
After that, I was just as much at home in that century as I could have been in any other; and as for preference, I wouldn't have traded it for the twentieth.
We could haveblown up the Tower of London with these charges.
I could have got a title easily enough, and that would have raised me a large step in everybody's eyes; even in the king's, the giver of it.
At one time," she replied, "I could have run up that hill a good deal better than you.
He felt if only they had been of a different colour he could have borne it better.
All the way home in the train she had said to herself: "If only it could have been me!
It was as good a stimulant as he could have, but he refused and went to bed.
I had never heard of a collieshangie in my days, but with the racket all about us in the city, I could have no doubt as to the man's meaning.
She bowed to me as a lady bows to her equal, and passed on (I could have sworn) with a heightened colour.
Had I been to go down that instant, I believe I could havecarried it well.
Do as I would, I could not keep the rope as I could have wished it; and he ended at last by falling on me from a height of several yards, so that we both rolled together on the ground.
I was all soul, and (wild as it may appear) felt as if I could have dissolved in the soft balmy gale that kissed my cheek, or have glided below the horizon on the glowing, descending beams.
As a medial man I could have no opinion on such a point unless I knew Mr. Tyke, and even then I should require to know the cases in which he was applied.
It was "rather hard lines" that while he was smarting under this disappointment he should be treated as if he could have helped it.
Mr. Vincy said, that if he could have his way, he would not put disagreeable fellows anywhere.
I have been able to say it myself without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the whole world,--it was all one to me.
I could have lied, it is true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent.
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