Then it dropped down, presently, and its little velvet nose rested upon the floor, and it was still, and did not move any more.
The instructor, who had met with many disappointments, knew how to feel for a stranger who had been thus turnedupon the charities of an unfeeling community.
If there is one who desires to go, let him come and shake hands upon the altar of devotion, and swear that he will be a hero; yes, a Hector in a cause like this, which calls aloud for a speedy remedy.
But I see you have some religion in you, that you fear.
In the end all three of them begin advancing, step by step, upon the banqueters, Valentinavyczia, he cellist, bumping along with his instrument between notes.
When night fell he was pacing up and down his cell like a wild beast that breaks its teeth upon the bars of its cage.
Upon the top of the car was a brakeman, who shook his fist and swore; Jurgis waved his hand derisively, and started across the country.
The speaker is one to whom Shelley is an almost ideal being.
The Idea of Personality and of Art as an intermediate agency of Personality, as embodied in Browning's Poetry.
What a preparation was this for that period of our literature in which man, the great actor of the drama of life, was about to appear on the stage!
O youth, men praise so,--holds their praise its worth?
When the winter shall arrive, thou wilt see that these mountains are still the icy Alps, and the winds will whistle through this crazy castle, as they are wont to sing in the naked corridors of Willading.
The cupidity of Baptiste had indeed charged his good bark to the uttermost.
Christine in this is far happier than I, an advantage that I doubt not she owes to her simple life, and to the closer intimacies which unite females.
Throwing forward an arm, he seized the bushy tail of the dog, and suffered himself to be dragged ahead, he knew not whither, though he seconded the movement with his own exertions.
Just as we entered it from one side a huge monster emerged from the jungle upon the other, and at sight of us charged madly in our direction.
As if it were yesterday, I still saw the beautiful face of Phaidor, daughter of Matai Shang, distorted with jealous rage and hatred as she sprang forward with raised dagger upon the woman I loved.
Truth and honesty were writ large upon the warrior's noble countenance, so that I could not but have trusted him, enemy though he should have been.
When these dreaded invaders reached the Krishna River the Hindus to their south, stricken with terror, combined, and gathered in haste to the new standard which alone seemed to offer some hope of protection.
The enemy besieged it for a month and lost many people, owing to the walls of water and food.
The town had been besieged for two years by an army of two hundred thousand men, a hundred elephants, and three hundred camels.
The Hindoo, changing his object, aimed a heavy stroke at the sultan, giving at the same instant a shout of triumph, which made the spectators believe his blow was effectual.
The ape's refusal he traced directly to Tarzan, finally convincing himself that the ape man had instructed the great anthropoid to refuse to go upon the stage.
He guessed that Condon had entered their room to rob; but he did not believe that the man had had time to possess himself of the money; however, as it was nowhere else, it must be upon the body of the dead man.
The broad grin that had sat upon the sailor's face as he perpetrated his little joke froze to an expression of terror.
Upon the floor at his feet was the dead body of a strange man.
Upon the point of their purpose in visiting the place Condon found the boy reticent, and so he did not push the matter--he had learned all that he cared to know as it was.
He certainly did not exhaust his power upon me, in the case, but acted, upon the whole, very generously, considering the nature of my offense.
For, upon the point of leaving England, I took occasion to expose the disgusting tyranny, in the columns of the London Times.
They traveled for the most part upon the ground, where it was open, following the path of the great elephants whose comings and goings break the only roads through those tangled mazes of bush, vine, creeper, and tree.
Scarcely had they fought a dozen seconds ere they were rollingupon the ground, striking, tearing and rending--two great savage beasts battling to the death.
In sleep, upon the march, night or day, he never knew when that quiet noose would slip about his neck and nearly choke the life out of him.
She was very witty, as you know, and her stories were so good and so capitally told, that neither Democrat nor Republican thought of leaving the ground while she was upon the stand.
She saw, instantly, the terrible fate which had fallenupon the vessel.
Presently those nearest the door saw a broader shadow fall over those flickering upon the stone.
The exhortation of the commander of the faithful was fortified by a supply of volunteers from all the tribes of Arabia, who arrived in the camp on horses or camels.
The rooted fibers rose, and from the wound Black bloody drops distill'd upon the ground.
Which of your Philosophical Systems is other than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown?
This king out of his swefne abreide, And he upon the morwe it seide Unto the clerkes whiche he hadde: Bot non of hem the sothe aradde, Was non his swevene cowthe undo.
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