No one could be farther from being cross; but she was thoroughly upset.
Growing accustomed to the darkness, for the windows were open and showed grey squares with splinters of starlight, one coulddistinguish a lean form, terribly like the body of a dead person, the body indeed of William Pepper, asleep too.
One could lie in bed in the mornin' and pick roses outside the window with one's toes.
One could buy a hatful of Koh-i-Noors with the same money, no doubt.
One could have a seat in that place and plenty of music, any afternoon, for about eight cents, or a family ticket for the season for two dollars.
Still, it did not seem possible that any one could do such a thing deliberately.
Droll state of things there; one could fancy it Britain, or Gaul half settled by the Teutons, with the Roman sticking about them.
If one could be a farmer's daughter without the pretension and vulgarity, what a life it would be!
The service was almost more than one could bear, but she was composed, except at the references in the sermon to our state of intense anxiety, and the need of submission.
It was necessary to select a President who should perfectly agree with Bonaparte's views; and in this respect no one could be so suitable as Bonaparte himself.
He often talked a great deal, and sometimes a little too much; but no one could tell a story in a more agreeable and interesting way.
No one could be fonder of France than he was, and he ardently desired that his first negotiations might lead to a long alliance between the Russian and French Governments.
He wished to be independent, which he well knew that no one could be without fortune.
Bourrienne had a prodigious memory; he spoke and wrote in several languages, and his pen ran as quickly as one could speak.
There was so much firmness in the look which gave this answer, no one could, at any rate, doubt his will, if they did his power.
What should I care for either riches or poverty, if my Valentine was near me, and I felt certain that no one coulddeprive me of her?
The figure, one could see, had originally been an acrobat, but these ingenious Polar explorers had transformed it into this hideous shape.
There was rejoicing on board when the last of them left the deck, and, indeed, one could not be surprised.
I assumed that if these were securely lashed together, and the lashings covered with leather, they would make as strong a handle as one could expect to get.
From the third to the ninth hour the battle continued so fierce that no one could in any wise make out which was to have the better of it.
No one could ever be so watchful as to detect in her any folly, or sign of evil or villainy.
He gives him leave and begs him to return as soon as possible: for in the whole court there was no better or more gallant knight, save only his dear nephew Gawain; [125] with him no one could be compared.
No one could detain me; to-morrow, without delay, I shall wish to get off in the morning, as soon as I see the dawn.
No one spoke any ill of her, for no one could do so.
Whoever wrote such stories knew not how slippery a peeled wand is, even if one could hit it, and how it gives to the onset.
Tom Faggus returned from London very proudly and very happily, with a royal pardon in black and white, which everybody admired the more, because no one could read a word of it.
How far the sluggish enfeebled nature was capable of a touch of better things, or whether his low spirits were repentance, no one could judge.
No one could tell, least of all the parties concerned.
No one could guess,' she said, 'what a delight it was not to know what one was to have for dinner?
It is no trouble ifone could only be of any service.
His wife had now been dead just two years, and he was still under thirty; no one could deny it would be right that he should marry again.
One could use an elephant as a paper-weight, and a crocodile as a pair of scissors!
His Sylvius attire was open to criticism, but no one could fail to admire his appearance as the Duke, on account of a magnificent ducal head-gear, from which soared a bunch of tall peacock feathers.
There was such an intolerable air of conceit about this man that it was almost as much as one could do to refrain from running up and affronting him.
Upon the whole, Long Ghost was as entertaining a companion as one could wish; and to me in the Julia, an absolute godsend.
No one could look at him without conceiving a strong dislike, or a cordial desire to entertain such a feeling the first favourable opportunity.
In the daytime, Po-Po's house was as pleasant a lounge as one could wish.
He was always for having a fight; but the very men he flogged loved him as a brother, for he had such an irresistibly good-natured way of knocking them down, that no one could find it in his heart to bear malice against him.
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