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The family grouped around him, like children around their father, while he gave out his favorite hymn, "I'll praise my Maker while I've breath;" "and after singing it with a countenance all a-glow, through the sunshine of heaven upon his soul, he knelt down and prayed. All were overpowered; it was a season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
I drew my threadbare coat closer as I made my way up the track, on the look-out for some place to go into and warm myself. Usually, in chilly weather, each railroad station throughout the country has a stove a-glow in the waiting room ... I found the railroad station, and the stove, red-hot, was there ... it was good to be near a fire. In the South it can be at times heavily cold.
Sir Phillip Jocelyn sprang up with his face all a-glow with rapture, and would fain have seized the banker's hand in token of his gratitude; but Henry Dunbar waved him off with an authoritative gesture. "Good morning, Sir Philip," he said; "I am very poor company, and I shall be glad to be alone with the Times. You young men don't appreciate the Times.
Judge, then, of the effect produced upon me by the entrance of her mother at the very moment when my heart was all a-glow with love, who said, as she came in "Oh, dear! This is a strange world!" "What new feature have you discovered now, mother?" asked one of her daughters, smiling. "No new one, child; but an old one that looks more repulsive than ever," was replied. "Poor Mrs.
Margaret had not been gone five minutes when Mr. Thornton came in, his face all a-glow. 'I could not come sooner: the superintendent would Where is she? He looked round the dining-room, and then almost fiercely at his mother, who was quietly re-arranging the disturbed furniture, and did not instantly reply. 'Where is Miss Hale? asked he again. 'Gone home, said she, rather shortly. 'Gone home!
"Judge then, of the effect produced upon me by the entrance of her mother at the very moment when my heart was all a-glow with love, who said, as she came in "'Oh, dear! This is a strange world! "'What new feature have you discovered now, mother? asked one of her daughters, smiling. "'No new one, child; but an old one that looks more repulsive than ever, was answered. 'Poor Mrs.
Then pass beyond the common into the country, and pause at the first ploughed field that you see sweeping up the hill sides in the sun, with its deep brown furrows, and wealth of ridges all a-glow, heaved aside by the ploughshare, like deep folds of a mantle of russet velvet fancy it all changed suddenly into grisly furrows in a field of mud. That is what it would be without iron.
The huntress, flattened like an empty skin, trailed slow and silent on the ground behind a log no thicker than her neck; if she could reach that tuft of brush she could get unseen to the weeds and then would be near enough to spring. She could smell them now the rich and potent smell of life, of flesh and blood, that set her limbs a-tingle and her eyes a-glow.
Each of them is a marked gem. Here in America, your police regulations are not so complete; but I fancy that, even here, he would have had difficulty in marketing this one," and he unfolded the last packet, and held up to the light a rose-diamond which seemed to me as large as a walnut, and a-glow with lovely colour.
There appeared to be a chaise with several outriders, as Buckingham thought, by the tramp of horses' feet, and a creaking of wheels pulling heavily along. As he gazed anxiously in their direction, a torch was suddenly set a-glow and a horseman rode up with it to the mouth of the subterranean passage.
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