The scene was striking, in a word; but somehow not as I had dreamed of its being.
It does not sit well on a man only because of its being common to animals with him; it augurs in him the lack of true and perfect humanity.
As a so eminently respectable man, Mr Podsnap was sensible of its being required of him to take Providence under his protection.
The only cause which I can imagine for this choice, is its being a landmark in a dangerous passage.
The circumstance of its being an arm of the sea was rendered very evident by several huge whales spouting in different directions.
The revolution having broken out prevented its being applied to any purpose, and now it remains a monument of the fallen greatness of Spain.
This habit is often the cause of its being discovered; for the condors wheeling in the air, every now and then descend to partake of the feast, and being angrily driven away, rise all together on the wing.
At length arrived at the point in the circle where the mind has fulfilled the aim of its being, an internal, unaccountable mechanism has, at the same time, made the body incapable of being any longer its instrument.
Simple and ingenious as was this theory, however, as yet there was little evidence of its being reduced to practice.
Mabel had repeated her signal eight or ten times in vain, and she began to despair of its being noticed, when a sign was given in return by the wave of a paddle, and the man so far discovered himself as to let her see it was Chingachgook.
During our stay in Le Croc, in spite of its being a breathing time, and of every kind of care, many men had been ailing, and the sickness ended by taking the form of a somewhat serious epidemic of smallpox.
It touched me much, and I have kept a grateful memory of it, for there was some merit, on the King's part, inits being so.
The reason I have written all this is because such ideas have come to me lately, and a fear that sometimes you might resort to your unloving methods, with the thought of its being right.
He went about his work with an air of its being an old story to him--an air which was at once reassuring and disturbing.
I can find no words to tell you of the unspeakable horror with which I saw, in my older days, that a thought could so torment me; the mere fact of its being able to torment I could never forget.
Confused by his notice, and blushing from the fear of its being excited by something wrong in her appearance, she turned away her head.
She had no doubt in the world of its being a very fine day, if the clouds would only go off, and the sun keep out.
The Care of Self-Preservation we are born with, does not extend it self beyond this Life; therefore every Creature dreads Death as the Dissolution of its Being, the Term not to be exceeded, the End of All.
I hate to hear a Man talk of its being more or less portable, the melting of it over again, and reducing it to a new Standard.
Consider that the physicians recommended wine, and then can you doubt of its being poison?
I saw the whole letter, and he did not even hint at its being communicated to me.
Indeed, at that time I did not-could not think of its being printed, you seeming so averse to any publication on that head.
Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real.
Both of these characteristics unite in this story, and it may have been these, rather than the fact of its being a narrative of a resurrection, that found for it a place in this Gospel.
He represents his sending Jesus to Herod as done from the high motive of securing the completest possible investigation, instead of its being a despicable attempt to shirk responsibility and to pay an empty compliment to an enemy.
What a strange state of mind it was that acknowledged the miracle, and then took offence at its being done on the Sabbath!
But the final, and at the time of its being spoken, the mysterious, reference was to the fact that in descending to the depth of humiliation He was rising to the height of glory.
Critics shake their heads over its many quotations and allusions to Hannah's song and to other poetical parts of the Old Testament, and declare that these are fatal to its being accepted as Mary's.
Long absence and a vagabond life had not quenched the paternal instinct, and the little fellow was caressed with a fervor too genuine to admit of the possibility of its being assumed.
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