He listened respectfully, and, when at last I had finished, said he quite agreed with me, and that the fare was seven shillings.
Unless permeated by the higher faculties of the mind, unless it be not the clothing, but the 'incarnation of thought,' it is quite an humble power.
The secret was, that the shell was bored before the nut was quite ripe, the juice poured out, and Arrack substituted in its place.
What can be happier than the allusion to the fact mentioned in the last two lines; namely, that the coat is quite a match for the billows, being as great a swell as any of them?
A valued friend writing from Maryland, observes: 'The collection of facts by your contributor is very industrious, their array quite skilful, and the argument very strong.
Each day we had perceived signs which indicated that small parties of Sioux had been quiterecently over the very ground we were travelling.
I saw that something was wrong, but was quite at a loss to guess the cause.
Eben Dudley, who had been studying the movements and attitudes of the captive with quite as much keenness, and with something more of understanding, than the leech.
In place of the fierce effort to carry the place by surprise, the savages had now resorted to means that were more methodical, and which, though not so appalling in appearance, were perhaps quite as certain of final success.
It was appeased by observing that his concern was awakened in behalf of one whose spirit was quite equal to sustain greater trials.
There was also a small block-house near the habitation; but, by the air of neglect that reigned around, it was quite apparent the little work had been of a hurried construction, and of but temporary use.
In your eyes, we of a brief century or two, must appear as little more than denizens quite recently admitted to the privilege of a residence.
Common interest seemed to still the breathing of the little assembly, and sympathy was quite as active as curiosity, when each one present suffered a glance to steal towards her benignant but pallid face.
All this is quite in reason, and now thou pointest to its justice, I cannot fail but see it.
They had given place to the peculiar repose that distinguishes the Indian warrior in his moments of inaction, quite as much as it marks the manner of one schooled in the forms of more polished life.
Ended by her being quite convinced that she would be doing wrong instead of right if she married a man whom she had entirely ceased to love, and that no real good could come from a course of action based on wrong-doing.
Her voice was quite changed when she spoke; quite hoarse, and very low; yet it was steady enough as she said, what was the truth, that she had come to look for a letter which she believed had arrived for me from Germany.
Bessy lingered for some time, hoping that Mrs. Foster would remember her offer of lending her the money; but finding that she had quite forgotten it, she ventured to remind the kind old woman.
How had our walk and talk and mood, our quite recent everyday and ordinary view, our normal relationship with the things of the world--how had it all slipped into this?
I am quite sure I can help," he answered quietly; "sympathy must always help, and suffering always owns my sympathy.
Also, the dogs and birds upon the curtains always matched the trees exactly, and he won the curtain game quite easily; there was never a dog or bird too many; the curtain never stirred.
You felt it, perhaps, as I did," he said some moments later, his voice quite steady again.
Henry was quitewilling she should marry his favourite, and had she but kept her mental poise she would have carried her love to a triumphant open marriage.
Mary and her husband had been forgiven and were in favour again, and at Court became quite naturally the centre of all those French influences and ideas which have always had such a vivid attraction to Englishmen.
She is quite young, and in two years she will hardly be as ripe as Likerke or Fontaine.
I wept and wept for hours: I could weep just because my grief was not quite hopeless; if I had known that all was over, there would have been no tears for my load of woe.
And should some other temptation in reality again assail me, my will is quite strong enough to keep it away from me.
We were all of us busy about Lilly, and of the servants, none had ventured to go near one who had “already turned quite black”.
As a general rule the occupants of thrones are prevented by those who surround them from the exercise of those great efforts of individual will, which fall quite outside of the usual pattern.
I have it quite certainly from his nearest relations; but the war party put pressure on him--coerced him--and he yielded.
My father was in the habit, if any discussion did not go quite as he liked, to affect a little difficulty of hearing.
Then the victories and defeats bring out quite new combinations; then kingdoms diminish or increase, or shape themselves in relations before unforeseen.
What these jokes were about I have quite forgotten, but I know that I laughed and enjoyed myself quite unrestrainedly.
In my experience, they have almost never saddled and bridled my horse quite correctly.
Most of the track is quite legible owing to the vegetation having been worn off the lava, but the rock itself hardly shows the slightest abrasion.
I was anxious, as well as about the mule, had a really waterproof cloak, and I am glad to say has quite lost the cough from which she suffered before our expedition.
He has planted many thousand Australian eucalyptus trees on the hillside in the hope of procuring a larger rainfall, so that the neighbourhood has quite an exotic appearance.
We jogged on again till we met a native who told us that we were quite close to our destination; but there were no signs of it, for we were still on the lofty uplands, and the only prominent objects were huge headlands confronting the sea.
I have hired the native policeman's horse and saddle, and with a Macgregor flannel riding costume, which my kind friends have made for me, and a pair of jingling Mexican spurs am quite Hawaiianised.
Hundreds of unfinished axes lie round the cave entrance, and there is quite a large mound of unfinished chips.
It was quite dark when I reached the trail which dips over the great pali of Laupahoehoe, 700 feet in height; but I found myself riding carelessly down what I hardly dared to go up, carefully and in company, four months before.
The Countess wasquite aware of the efficacy of a little bit of burlesque lying to cover her retreat from any petty exposure.
I have just ascertained that Lady Jocelyn is quite familiar with Andrew's origin!
It happened through my mother's father being a merchant; and that side of the family the men and women are quite sordid and unendurable; and that's how it came that I spoke of disliking tradesmen.
And Evan nodded; and Rose, to make him think light of the matter in hand, laughed: 'Pluck not quite up yet?
Wasn't quiteup to her mark--a tailor's daughter, you know.
Evan, and they walked to the house, not quite knowing what they were going to do.
We did not commence work until November, and have had quite hard work to catch up with the regular course, but think we shall be able to accomplish it after a little more hard work.
For domestic lighting we therefore come to quite a new departure in electric lamps; instead of the arc we have the incandescent regulator.
And it is quite futile that our breasts glow with some fugitive feeling in the house of God, unless that feeling dedicates our common dwellings to be all houses of God.
After the lecture opportunity is given to members to ask questions on any points not quite clear to them.
They may leave human life quite untouched by that unrivaled glory, however bright their transient beam.
From Greece to the stars will be quite a change, yet we are glad to leave war and bloodshed for a time.
See two dogs meet: they evidently quite understand each other, and by wagging of tails and bright glances, or the reverse; and a cheerful bark or a savage snarl, can quickly intimate whether a gambol or a fight is to result.
I do not understand how he is a liberal chemist who feels at liberty to play fast and loose with the principles of his science, and will not quite affirm whether gunpowder will explode or not when fire touches it.
We are too busy or too indifferent to care much for a score of things which, when we were younger, we found quite entrancing.
Though Macbeth was a bold man, at this horrible sight his cheeks turned white with fear and he stoodquite unmanned with his eyes fixed upon the ghost.
Our circle has been having some very pleasant gatherings lately, quite out of our usual order.
His life was in many ways the reverse of normal, but he insisted in writing about it quite naturally, "as if there were nothing in it.
The first chapters of "The Romany Rye" (which was not actually published until May, 1857) are quite equal to anything that Borrow ever wrote.
Charles Lamb is almost the only author we can think of (out of Scotland) who is worshipped by his admirers with quite the same canine sort of affection.
The labour which he bestowed upon his Life was immense, quite disproportionate to his previous efforts.
When all had been thus prepared, they were hung up in groups to be photographed, but the photographs were quite unsatisfactory so far as showing the relative proportions of fat and lean.
An assemblage of persons all provided with colored eye-glasses is quite curious to contemplate.
They think their brides are just about the most beautiful women in the world, when they are really quite homely--wouldn't even hold a candle to our Susan here.
Finally he said, "Carl, we have quite a problem here, and we don't know what to do about it.
I read the first few paragraphs and they were quite normal.
As the attorney in the case, you never quite see it the same as everybody else.
He squeezed my arm, and the rain did not seem to fall quite as hard.
It is quite a blow when it turns out that they are the one who has been wrong all along.
I got quite wet in Washington, but I was in a hurry to see Mr. Spardleton and I did not bother to change my clothes.
On the other hand, I feel so certain that buildings set aside for public worship are essential in every place, that where none exists I feel wretched, and I have shares in quite a number all along our Labrador coast.
Science has taught us that doubt, quite as much as faith, leads to the apprehension of truth.
Pelle felt quite independent now, and he held his head straight as he walked by Nono and talked about the good princess.
She had such sweet songs to sing, and such hymns for Sunday, that Jan said it was quite like going to church to hear her, or more like hearing the little angels doing their best up in heaven.
Decima did not pretend that she knew more than he did on this subject, and indeed he was quite her oracle in all matters.
It suddenly struck him that these were Philistines, quite of the scoffing, Goliath sort; but he was not to be discouraged by them, not he!
The tears were in the eyes of the culprit, but he stood quite still, and was at first speechless.
Jan came along at the moment, and Nono explained his plan to him, much as he had done to Karin, but with quite a different result.
Of course she took cold, and Karin was quitein despair.
Nono's life was quite like a romance, she said, and she wished she could turn to the last page of the story, as she often did in a book she was reading.
Jan generally had his times of punishment quite private with the boys, the grove behind the house being the usual place of execution.
She used words about it such as she had heard her father employ in criticising works of art, andquite soared beyond Nono's comprehension as well as her own.
A dignified, gray-haired man, in a livery Nono consideredquite royal apparel, looked inquiringly at the little visitor.
She hoped--quite penitently--that I would "overlook the error.
He actually does find it there, and exhibits it to Portia with extreme astonishment, as if it was quite the last thing he expected.
But I began quite a fresh book, on imaginative principles, on the course.
At this rate quite clear, if every Member is to have his say--and why shouldn't he?
Up goes the Curtain, and those who remember the Cavalleria as it was put on "in another place," to use parliamentary language, see at the first glance that this representation is going to be quite another pair of shoes.
When I wasquite a baby it was my great joy, on Sunday afternoons, to sit on my father's knee at the harmonium.
All through the breakfast the Abbé remained melancholy, notwithstanding the merry occasion, and the fact that Madame Godard, who was present, assured him that her husband was quite unable to make an ascent in his weakly condition.
If you lie down on one of these sand-hills, choosing a spot not quite so dirty as its neighbours, you will soon be amused by seeing a curious little comedy going on perpetually around you in every direction.
In the confusion of our happiness we had quite forgotten that he was to accompany us to the breakfast--to which, as a matter of fact, he had been the first person invited.
Oh, that will do," the minister answered, quite relieved; for it was clear that our anxiety and the touch of romance in our tale had enlisted him in our favour.
The remainder of the meat, half-roasted or quite raw, they strung to their bandoliers.
These Indians were quite naked, but richly decorated with gold and silver plates of a crescent form, and gold rings worn in the nose, which they had to lift up when they drank.
Having remained now ten days at Panama, the fleet steered to the island of Tavoga, where they found a village of 100 houses quite deserted, and many of these were burnt by the carelessness of a drunken sailor.
When quite close, he commanded in a loud voice the helm to be put one way, while by a preconcerted plan the steersman shifted into another, and fell on board the Dane, which was captured with the loss of only five men.
Quite undaunted he proceeded to Puerto Rico, entered the bay, sounding his trumpets, and, sending on shore, told the governor that he had come to offer his services to escort the galleons which were then ready to sail.
A Spanish ship had picked him up in a drifted canoe when quite a boy, and he had been employed among the slaves in a cocoa plantation, where he soon became a successful steward, and much beloved by his master.
Almost before they had time to reload, the admiral passed, but the Buccaneers' second volley quite disabled their giant antagonist, killing the man at the helm; and the ship ran into the wind and her sails lay aback.
Bunny Brown that night when they were all sitting on the porch to cool off, for it was quite hot.
The circus isn't quiteready yet, but you can stay at our grandpa's house until it is.
But poor Splash was quite lame, and could only walk on three legs.
It was about eleven o'clock at night, and quite dark, except when the lightning came.
Maybe they are, but they can't talk and tell us about it," said Sue, who was not quite so frightened now.
There was a light in the kitchen, and by it Bunny and Sue could see a boy, not quite as big as Bunker Blue, standing beside grandpa.
Bunker could not do quite as well as this, but, for all that, he was pretty good.
It was quite different from being on grandpa's farm in the country.
The little circus, gotten up by Bunny and Sue, had madequite a jolly time for the people in the country where Grandpa Brown lived.
He is going to tame him, but the fox is quite wild yet.
The thunder was notquite so loud, nor the lightning so bright, but it rained harder than ever, and as Bunny felt his eyes growing heavy, so that he was almost asleep, he again thought of what might happen to the circus tents.
Bunny thought he was quite a big boy, but of course grandpa knew what was right.
Some of the boys were quite strong, and they could do tricks on the trapeze that Bunny and his little friends did not dare try.
Then, quiteat the rear, a woman appeared, the number-one wife of Li Yuan Chang.
Also, although not quite so emphatically, he relinquished all thoughts of arriving at the Gare du Nord, and of finding a train to take him home to his province, where his wife lived.
The reasons that made him desire his wife, were quite satisfied with the gentle pressure on his arm.
Moods came on him from time to time, which he recognised were quite the right moods in which to work, in which to produce great things.
He said he could find himself if he could getquite absolutely away.
Binzuru is polished smooth and shining, quite deformed with rubbing--his poor head's a nubbin!
Speaking about this, some said, Well enough--he has become quite incompetent of late.
From the kitchen beyond came the clattering of dishes, and some talking in immature, childish voices, and the insistent, piping tones of a quite young child.
Therefore instead of accepting the situation, instead of drinking himself into acquiescence, or drugging himself into acquiescence, he found himself quite resolved to remain firmly and consciously outside of it.
Really, a few professed to be quite shocked--they said you never knew how the East would affect a person, especially a decent person.
It all happened quite a long time ago, which was the bother of it.
Do not look at me quite like that, Miss Venza, or I shall forget what I have to say.
There was one quite near us, a smooth, brown-shelled body; a round head on top, as big as my fist.
Veronese was neither a thinker nor an historian, nor a moralist; he was quite simply a painter, but he was a very great one.
Armand Baschet discovered quite recently in the archives of the Frari, at Venice, the official record of the trial with all the questions put to him and his answers.
These praises were merited; the Wedding at Cana is quite truly one of the most beautiful masterpieces in the world's collection of paintings.
Veronese learned to model statuettes in clay, and, aided by his precocious intelligence, he acquired a real dexterity in this art, quite remarkable in one so young.
She had every confidence in Peridot's seamanship, having been out with him many a time in weather that, if not quite so threatening as this, offered sufficient test of skill and nerve.
He is very courteous, and quite a clever talker, and he tries to make every woman he meets believe that she is the one creature on earth he adores.
To her it was quite immaterial whether or not Madeleine's career was ruined.
Happily I have never suffered from a broken limb; but it sounds quite dreadful.
She realized instantly that he was excited about something quite out of the common run, though his air was studiously composed.
They thought she had mistaken some byway, and fallen into the Aven, a quite possible accident to a stranger on a dark night.
She laughed quite merrily, for sheer relief at the discovery that he was thinking of anything but the fantasy that had caused that riot in her veins.
The girl had grown quite accustomed to the demand invariably put forward by Ingersoll before accepting an invitation that he should be told the names of any strangers who would be present.
You will be quite open and candid with me, I know, because it is necessary that we should meet the trials of the next few days with the clearest knowledge of each other's aims.
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