If there was a grand Missus at Misselthwaite I should never have been even one of th' under house-maids.
There was a wall round the place andthere was no door.
There was panic on every side, and dying people in all the bungalows.
No, there was no excuse for it, and they turned back to their feeding, but with an eye upon the ape-man lest he be preparing to suddenly run amuck.
There was one, for example, the meaning of which was rather difficult to grasp.
There was a convulsive shiver and the man lay still.
There was always a prophetic instinct, a low whisper in my ear, that within no long period, and whenever a new change of custom should be essential to my good, change would come.
There was no occasion to make much moan about this state of affairs.
There was no chance in hell that Control-C would actually repay the enormous and largely theoretical sums in long-distance service that he had accumulated from Michigan Bell.
There was even a hacker group called "Justice League of America," named after Superman's club of true-blue crimefighting superheros.
There was no question that most any American hacker arrested would "know" LoD.
There was a big pursy body, almost as large as his thumb, and of the very snowiest white that Freckles ever had seen.
There was an unusually large Luna cocoon, and the moth was bursting the upper end in its struggles to reach light and air.
There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
There was not a dissentient voice on the subject, either when Mrs. Perry drank tea with Mrs. and Miss Bates, or when Mrs. and Miss Bates returned the visit.
There was no recovering Miss Taylor--nor much likelihood of ceasing to pity her; but a few weeks brought some alleviation to Mr. Woodhouse.
If, to avoid an accumulation of offices, there was to be a frequent change in the persons who were to compose the council, this would involve the mischiefs of a mutable administration in their full extent.
And if there was a necessity for confiding the original cognizance of causes arising under those laws to them there would be a correspondent necessity for leaving the door of appeal as wide as possible.
Our pockets were magazines of small necessities, and we had our guns, of course--there was no knowing what might happen.
There was a very large and beautiful tree in the glade we had just entered, with thick wide-spreading branches that sloped out in lapping fans like a beech or pine.
There was a desperate tangle of wood and water and a swampy patch we never should have found our way across alone.
I think he thought that country--if there was one--was just blossoming with roses and babies and canaries and tidies, and all that sort of thing.
There was a long rest for the orchestra, and plenty of refreshments, while Marija was making her peace with her victim, seating him upon the bar, and standing beside him and holding to his lips a foaming schooner of beer.
There was a light of wonder in her eyes and her lids trembled, and her otherwise wan little face was flushed.
There was no other place for the babies to be, and so part of the preparations for the evening consisted of a collection of cribs and carriages in one corner.
The judge laid himself out hospitality to make them have a good time, and ifthere was a defect anywhere, it was not his fault.
The next moment the heavy implement was raised aloft; the next, there was a crash and a squall, and the cat was off on three legs to meet an engagement; Roxy would arrive just as the lamp or a window went to irremediable smash.
He's a labrick--just a Simon-pure labrick, if there was one.
There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
The man finished his basin, and called for another, the rum being signalled for in yet stronger proportion.
Casterbridge had sentiment--Casterbridge had romance; but this stranger's sentiment was of differing quality.
I almost feel that I would rather he did say so, as I have not seen him for so many years, and we are so--little allied to him!
He had seen no jest in ambiguities and roguery, as the Casterbridge toss-pots had done; and rightly not--there was none.
There was then a time of sadness, in which she told him her doubts if she could live with him longer.
There was a burst of applause, and a deep silence which was even more eloquent than the applause.
There was no more to be said, and the man came out, encountering Elizabeth-Jane in his passage.
There was an under-handsomeness in it, struggling to reveal itself through the provisional curves of immaturity, and the casual disfigurements that resulted from the straitened circumstances of their lives.
There was silence, for each was busy with his own thoughts.
If there was a stranger he was nearly sure to be suspicious, and when he got his breath again he would ask her what it meant.
But not right away; there was no hurry, Aleck said.
Neither the dentist nor the lawyer was mentioned; there was no occasion, they were out of the running.
There was a rush for the vacant end of the room, now, and we followed and got good places.
There was a wait of half an hour at the end of the first act, and I could have gone out and rested during that time, but I could not trust myself to do it, for I felt that I should desert to stay out.
There was formerly a student in Heidelberg who had picked up somewhere and mastered a peculiar trick of cutting up under instead of cleaving down from above.
There was an answering croak from a little distance in the wood--evidently a croak of inquiry.
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