He had come not to beg, but to give me Penelope; and when he came again it would not be as a brother who could be turned from my door by the servants; when he came again it would be as a father of whom Penelope could feel no shame.
However, he turned from South to West, And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed, And after him the children pressed; Great was the joy in every breast.
So, quiet as despair, I turned from him, That hateful cripple, out of his highway Into the path he pointed.
III Little girl with the poor coarse hand I turned from to a cold clay cast-- I have my lesson, understand The worth of flesh and blood at last!
The sentence he had left unfinished, the long look he bent on the weeping girl as he turned from her, spoke more eloquently of the future than a score of orations.
And I turned from her, and went out, wondering and thinking.
Count Hannibal answered coolly; and he turned from him, and back again.
Many in churches, who seem to be turned from nature to grace, have not the grace to go up, turning still; but rest in that show of things, and so die below a share in the highest chambers.
But something told me that she had gone by the window, and I turned from it with renewed hope.
He turned from me and closed the door, and, coming back, held the light again to my face.
They rose and stood while she turned from them; and the two court ushers with their wands went before her as she walked down the hall.
Here it was in truth, calling me, but I turned from it and looked away over the flats, where another light was winking on the hillside.
This gave me a brief respite to compel my fallen enemy to capitulate, and when I turned from him, his brother was still staggering about in drunken fashion, gasping and crying, "Foul!
When I turned from him to my own corner by the window, the blubber would die away into a snuffle, and there he would sit, his head buried in his hands, snuffling and snuffling until books.
I turned from him to the motionless figure in the chair.
With a look of despairing anger and a shrug of the shoulders he turned from her, and despatched one of his men with an order.
With a short laugh he turned from Francesco to those upon the dais.
He turned from them, and ran shouting into the gatehouse, to re-emerge a moment later with half-dozen soldiers at his heels.
Such desires spring from the root of self-love, that bane of the soul, that seed of all spiritual diseases, by which the heart of man is turned from God to the world, and from Christ to self.
Hence the understanding in man is darkened and blinded; the will is, by a complete disobedience, turned from God; and all the springs and powers of the heart are stirred up against God in utter malice.
As he spoke they came opposite the tunnel, but he turned from it and they ascended the dune.
He turned from me disdainfully, petulantly, and addressed the Vicomtesse once more.
Catching sight of a belated and breathless policeman, he turned from her in desperation.
The doctor was used to scenes of sorrow, but the sight of this man's suffering unnerved him, and he turned from it.
And when I turned from Go-by Street which was just the same as ever, the first thing that I saw was a taximeter running into a hansom cab.
Then he turned from me and would say no more, but busied himself in behaving in accordance with ancient custom.
While he waited, she went past him to the window where she stood half turned from him, a free and slender line against the white of the outer day.
He turned from her, though in her eyes was a yearning toward him, and her outstretched arms and swaying body drew him to her.
You took me, turned from me, Seemed not to want me, so I went to him.
You would have suffered, turned from me, and lost The rapture which I gave you, and if rapture Be not a prize, where in this world so much Of ugliness and agony prevails, I do not know our life.
Within the week the natives had turned from us to the painted idols of their jungle, and the new gods toward whom they had wavered were to be sacrificed on the altars of the old.
The storm broke at the moment I turned from Lowell on the steps of the palace, and it did not cease, for even one brief breathing space, until we were cast forth, and scattered, and beaten.
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