He had never, never made any charge for that accommodation.
He had never lost a ship or consented to a shady transaction; and he had lasted well, outlasting in the end the conditions that had gone to the making of his name.
After all, he had never said anything misleading--and Captain Whalley felt himself corrupt to the marrow of his bones.
Meanwhile he had never ceased to work at his art; but, soon tiring of the studios, entirely by himself.
It is true I had never heard of this work; but I thought perhaps it had fallen into the hands of a private owner.
He had never been so poor that he could not buy canvas and paint, and really he needed nothing else.
But the concierge, somewhat to my surprise, had never heard of it.
I had never, hitherto, observed any peculiar warmth in his friendship that could lead me to look upon it as anything more than the partiality common among boys of the same age.
He then enquired why I had never thought of informing my family of what had taken place, since they had not been instrumental to my incarceration.
He told me that he had never understood my history, as I just now related it; he had of course known that I led a dissolute life, but he had imagined that M.
We had never spoken, we were wholly strangers: and yet an influence, strong as the grasp of a giant, swept us silently together.
It was evident that we had entirely miscalculated his movements, that he had never been to his bedroom, but that he had been sitting up in some smoking or billiard room in the farther wing of the house, the windows of which we had not seen.
Holmes's knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary, and on this occasion he passed rapidly and with an assured step through a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known.
So far as I know, the man's name was never mentioned, and on the second night he disappeared as if he had never been.
He had never heard of such books before I mentioned them, but he is determined to get them now as soon as ever he can.
He had neverseen so lovely a face, and was delighted with her naivete.
If he had never esteemed my opinion before, he would have thought highly of me then; and, I dare say, left the house thinking me the best friend and counsellor man ever had.
I said I had never heard of a man in his right mind going out to fight a duel without first making his will.
We had been dancing right along until those men began to shout; then for the next ten minutes it seemed to me that I had never seen a raft go so slowly.
The captain said he had been a mariner for forty years on the Neckar, and in that time had seen storms to make a man's cheek blanch and his pulses stop, but he had never, never seen a storm that even approached this one.
He said he had never heard of a man in his right mind doing anything of the kind.
It was considered that a person could strike harder in the duel, and with a more earnest interest, if he had never been in a condition of comradeship with his antagonist; therefore, comradeship between the corps was not permitted.
With this symbol I undo it all, and make it as if it had never been!
As a man who had once sinned, but who kept his conscience all alive and painfully sensitive by the fretting of an unhealed wound, he might have been supposed safer within the line of virtue than if he had never sinned at all.
He had never spoken of it, nor would he allow any one else to speak of it--he had never acknowledged its existence to himself.
And even in Packingtown they had not forgotten it--some gleam of it had never failed to break their darkness.
He had never had a fair chance, poor little fellow, she would say.
He had dressed hogs himself in the forest of Lithuania; but he had never expected to live to see one hog dressed by several hundred men.
He had not been courageous; he had never tried to put any other thoughts in the place of the dark ones.
In a few days he was in Yorkshire again, and on his long railroad journey he found himself thinking of his boy as he had never thought in all the ten years past.
The truth was that he had never had a fight with any one like himself in his life and, upon the whole, it was rather good for him, though neither he nor Mary knew anything about that.
He was so frightened at the danger he was in that he had as much forgotten the word as if he had never heard it.
It was no small surprise to the Prince to hear himself named in a place he had never heard of, though so nigh to his father's capital, and he could not comprehend how he should be known to a lady who was a stranger to him.
This path had a hedge of roses on each side of it, and the merchant thought he had never seen or smelt such exquisite flowers.
He proceeded to abound in the praises of Napoleon, such as I had never heard in France, or at least only on the lips of officials paid to offer them.
We had never a watch--or none that had a second-hand; and though every one of us could guess a second to a nicety, all somehow guessed it differently.
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.
I do heartily wish I had never written a word to him!
I mean the confession you coaxed out of me--that I had never been in the position of lover before.
His dream was based on this one atom of fact: Elfride and Knight had become separated, and their engagement was as if it had never been.
I had nevertalked to any one about it before, not even to Jean Braidfute.
We had never thought of it as only a pious thing to do.
And in that moment as we stood the black horse moved forward, the muffled trampling began again, the wild company swept on its way, and the white mist closed behind it as if it had never passed.
I had never said as much to any one before, but his watching eyes made me forget my shy worldlessness.
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