I had every reason to believe I had won his confidence, that he counted me as already among those he controlled and commanded, yet he was not a man who would ever rise above suspicion, and his trust would always be limited.
Apparently his brain, yet numbed by the blow, failed to entirely comprehend.
With head reeling dizzily, I crept through the opening, yet held the latch, fascinated by the first spoken words within.
Shaking as with palsy, yet with teeth clinched, I reached forward, groping my way back to the side of the bunk.
You need not deny, for I have read the truth in your face, yet without resentment.
Nothing reached me but the murmur of a voice, the words indistinguishable, yet this was sufficient to convince me that I was on the right trail.
The whole thing came to me in a flash, as I stared across at the mate, who scarcely realized yet the revelation made.
I recall this flash of thought, yet my attention almost instantly reverted elsewhere.
I could see nothing, barely the planks underfoot, yet there was nothing to do but obey, with his fingers gripping me.
Much as I despised the fellow, I hated to gag him, yet our safety depended on his silence, and I dare not neglect the precaution.
It might yet be my privilege to foil these villains, and rescue Mrs. Henley.
My purpose there was known, and these men had considered it worth while to put me out of the way, and to pick up my companion also, yet I could not directly connect this action with Judge Henley's will.
And here a strange thing, yet the commonest in the world, appeared; had her own marriage proved to Letty the most blessed of fates, she could not have shown more delight at the idea of Mary's.
Never yet had she found herself the best dressed in a room: now there would be hope!
Sepia was unnatural--as every one is unnatural who does not set his face in the direction of the true Nature; but she had gone further in the opposite direction than many people have yet reached.
In the mean time, if we are not yet able to serve like God from pure love, let us do it because it is his way; so shall we come to do it from pure love also.
She had not yet learned that the right is the right, come of praise or blame what may.
She had not yet learned that we must each bear his own burden, and so become able to bear each the burden of the other.
He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, apart from his relation to the holy force of life, within yet beyond him?
A voice, rather wooden, yet not without character, invited her to enter.
And yet I don't know any that's worth the worry of it.
And were it not now for the high grave's renown, Right here would I hew thee, swarthy king, down: Yet will I teach thee To come not again where my sword can reach thee.
Autumn has come; Storming now heaveth the deep sea with foam, Yet would I gratefully lie there, Willingly die there.
Fiercely leaping from height to height Aiming yet still higher; O, what wild and terrific light!
And yet there is atonement found in life itself,-- A humble prelude to the peace of heaven above.
Nay, but ascended From some far beacon is the light; Our happy talk is not yet ended, Nor yet so soon the lovely night.
Hear the stormy pinions Flapping in the distance, Yet we do not pale.
Now three years have passed by since the land I beheld where heroic achievement prevails; Tower the honored mounts yet to the heavenly blue?
She leaned over and looked at herself in the water for a moment.
Then Mrs. Loring might as well have burned herself on her husband's funeral pyre, Hindoo fashion!
That hole was every bit as good as a surprise party to them.
Mrs. Googe and Champney on the porch waving to us!
He intended while waiting for Alice to grow up--a feat which her aunt was always deploring as an impossibility except in a physical sense--to make himself necessary in this young life.
Let me see--she must be sixteen; why that's too young!
No--she knew by the light of the X-ray piercing her soul that the thought of his imprisonment meant absence from her; after all that had occurred, she was obliged to confess that she was still longing for his presence.
The quarry woods stood out dark against the clear sky; there seemed to be more light on these uplands than below in The Gore; she saw the sheepfold like a square blot on the pasture slope.
He halted in order to listen; to trace, if possible, its course.
Freckles cried excitedly, but under her breath; "now let's begin.
Among Takamochi's grandsons was a daring but fierce soldier, Masakado.
In the Hei-an epoch[1] were accentuated the virtues and vices of the Nara epoch.
Within Kyoto reigned luxury and pomp, but without it, unrest and discontentment.
Hardly less instructive is the change that overtook the nation's greatest religion, Buddhism.
This time the brave Prince Yamato-dake, who was sent to Tsukushi to subdue the insurgents, had to resort to strategy instead of war.
You see once more that kingly attitude, and you shall see it yetagain presently and be convinced of its precise worth.
He was allowed his own chaplain and several attendants, and, whilst closely guarded and confined to the Homenaje Tower of the fortress, yet he was not oppressively restrained.
The defence was shattered; resistance was at an end; yet still the bloody work went on.
Night and day was the bombardment of that bastion kept up, yet without producing visible effect until the morning of the 20th, when suddenly one of its towers collapsed thunderously into the moat.
In his twenty-four years of life he had never so much as witnessed a battle pitched; yet here was he riding to direct battles and to wrest victories.
It was an age which had not yet invented modesty, as we understand it.
And impossible it is; yet Villari achieves it, with an audacity that leaves you breathless.
If the conferring of the benefices vacated by a cardinal on his elevation to the Pontificate is to be considered simony, then there never was a Pope yetagainst whom the charge could not be levelled and established.
The scar was for a very long period famous for the breed of hawks, which were specially watched by the Goathland men for the use of James I.
In addition to the charm of the room itself, the view from the windows into a deep hollow clothed with dense foliage, with a distant glimpse of country beyond, is unlike anything I have seen elsewhere.
The results of the excavations proved conclusively that the people who dug the ditch and threw up the rampart were users of flint.
Fearing a subsidence of the cliff, they betook themselves to a small schooner lying in the bay.
Then the waters gather themselves together again, and the pounding of lesser waves keeps up a thrilling spectacle until the moment for another great coup arrives.
Blocking up the head of the dale are the spurs of Dodd and Widdale Fells, while beyond them appears the blue summit of Bow Fell.
As we go towards Spurn Head we are more and more impressed with the desolate character of the shore.
Seaweed paints much of the shore and the base of the cliffs a blackish green, and above the perpendicular whiteness the ruddy brown clay slopes back to the grass above.
If we take the branch-road to Flaxton, we soon see, over the distant trees, the lofty towers of Sheriff Hutton Castle, and before long reach a silent village standing near the imposing ruin.
Away to the north the road crosses the desolate country like a pale-green ribbon.
The role of the public estate, however, never assumed great significance, yet there is evidence of the continued practice during the seventeenth century of endowing an office such as Governor or secretary with the proceeds of a land grant.
Nor yet of sylvan marvels alone had we sight: I saw sea-calves fight with bears, and a deformed sort of cattle, we might call sea-horses.
What, then, is to be expected from them that would yet put into consideration the glory attending this refusal, wherein there may lurk worse ambition than even in the desire itself, and fruition of greatness?
And though he has been the means of already costing us some thousands, to crush this unnatural propensity, yet I firmly believe that he himself is at the head of all the civil disorders fomented for its attainment.
For though we are all sorry to lose you, yet it would be a source of still greater sorrow to us, prizing your services and fidelity as we do, should any plans and purposes of ours lead you into difficulty or embarrassment.
It must be acknowledged that this was astonishing language to be uttered in the apartments of the King's mistress; yet it went on for twenty years without being talked of.
Ten times he might have been made Prime Minister, yet he never aspired to it.
Though few persons could be more sensible than herself to poignant mortification at seeing her former splendour hourly decrease, yet she never once complained.
That he had yet remaining advantages, of which he could not be deprived; that his exile would terminate; and that he would then be a Cardinal, with an income of eight thousand louis a year.
But whilst I shall pursue the policy of non-co-operation in so far as I can carry the people with me, I shall not lose hope that you will yet see your way to do justice.
And yet perfect peace must be observed between the two communities in spite of attempts to divide them.
It is not yet known how the Supreme Council disposed of the rich and renowned lands of Asia Minor.
No tyrant has ever yet succeeded in his purpose without carrying the victim with him, it may be, as it often is, by force.
And yet somehow or other I cannot help feeling that General Dyer is by no means the worst offender.
And if His Excellency has not yet found the means of ensuring redress, he is not likely to do it in future.
I have not lost faith in such superiority and I am not without hope that somehow or other justice will yet be rendered if we show the requisite capacity for suffering.
Moreover, there are deadly proverbs as between the followers of Shiva and those of Vishnu, yet nobody suggests that these two do not belong to the same nation.
It is that there is no spotless sacrifice that has beenyet offered on earth, which has not carried with it its absolute adequate reward.
The bitterness between the English and the Germans has not yet died out.
I know that we have not all yet become non-violent in speech and deed.
And yet if, on the other hand, one compares the subsequent fame of men of action with the fame of men of letters, the contrast is indeed bewildering.
There are some people who are wholly unobservant, let us say, of scenery or houses, who are yet very shrewd judges of character.
Similarly there is undoubtedly a law which determines human preferences in poetry, though a far more complicated law, and not yet analysed.
His father was poor and he had miserable clothes, yet he had not trembled.
But we will all see yet the river and the great sea and the deep forests and the red people.
Tears were in his eyes and in his voice as he said:-- "I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me.
