It had set in for a three days' storm, I knew; we always had them in Venice during December.
And yet, in spite of this constant companionship, I never crossed a certain line of reserve which he had set up between us.
I began to think: This man had forced himself upon me not once, but twice; had set up the best bottle of wine he could buy, and was now about to steer me into a den.
We had setout at different times, so that no one might suspect.
He would not alight at the great square from whence hehad set out, nor in the palace, but directed his course towards a pleasure-house at a little distance from the capital.
As I come towards the end of this task which I had set myself, I wish, of course, that I could have performed it more to my own satisfaction and that of my readers.
I had set before me at the hotel a very handsome floral harp, which my friend's friend had offered me as a tribute.
What did the Creator mean to signify, when he made such shapes of horror, and, as if he had doubly cursed this envenomed wretch, had set a mark upon him and sent him forth the Cain of the brotherhood of serpents?
Soon after I had set up an office, I had a trifling experience which may serve to point a moral in this direction.
In a disturbed domestic atmosphere the heart she had set on Jon would have a better chance.
She stole back to the sitting-room, and now she noticed the absence of all the little things he had set store by.
Three minutes later he appeared again, approaching the house faster than he had set forth.
And during all this companionable month he never quite lost that feeling with which he had set out on the first day as if to visit an adored work of art, a well-nigh impersonal desire.
Society, forsooth, the chattering hags and jackanapes--had set themselves up to pass judgment on his flesh and blood!
She knew McLean had heard her, and she held back on the quickened pace that he had set.
During his early days in Wyoming the Governor, when as yet a private citizen, had set Mr. McLean's broken leg at Drybone.
Soon he had set it in order, the dishes on their shelves, the table clean, the fire in the stove arranged; and all these movements she followed with a sort of blank mechanical patience.
Sleepy as Main Street seemed in the heat, the town was incensed and roused to a tensity of feeling it had not known since the civil war, when, on occasion, it had set out to hang half a dozen "Knights of the Golden Circle.
He did not reach the door, nor was there necessity for him to ring, for, before he had set foot on the lowest step, the Judge had hastened to meet him.
He found it himself upon the table where he had set it down.
One morning as usual he had gone out to his work, and having found a nice clump of bamboos, had set to work to cut some of them down.
At last the tortoise carried him into the bay he knew so well, and to the shore from whence he had set out.
Here had I but a few moments ago been holding in my hands the very dream I had set out to find, and here was I secretly rejoicing to be robbed of it!
It was indeed to the fortunate accident of its being washing-day at the pretty cottage near which in the course of my morning wanderings I had set me down to rest, that I owed the sight of the petticoat in question.
Thus Chicago now led the country; it had set a new standard for the party, it had shown the workingmen the way!
And this was the fact, for Jurgis had never seen a city, and scarcely even a fair-sized town, until he had set out to make his fortune in the world and earn his right to Ona.
For, in the centre of the market-place, he missed a statue he had set up there as in all other places of his personal resort; and it looked cold and bare without that ornament.
What between thoughts of the young lady he had set himself to marry, and of the young lady he did not mean to marry, but whose eyes he admired, Philip did not sleep so well as usual that night.
Look here, Maria, I had set my heart upon this thing coming to pass; I have thought of it for years.
When he had setup the last nut he replaced the little plug in the tank, produced a can of gasoline from the locker behind the seats, emptied it into his tank and drove at reckless speed for the aviation grounds.
Now, as they came near--the thing relentless but inanimate pursuing the thing helpless, beautiful and most precious to him of all things in the world, not the quiver of a muscle hindered the desperate task that he had set himself.
I well remember my astonishment when I was told that he had set forth to go into the jaws of the Rebellion after Louisa, his daughter, who had succumbed to typhus fever while nursing the soldiers.
I had set my heart upon it, but could not find any pretty enough.
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