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He felt the quaint and striking simile is in the written account like a man hunting for a pillar-box in a strange city absurdly difficult to find, as though purposely concealed by the authorities amid details of street and houses to which the eye is unaccustomed, yet really close at hand all the time.... But at Trebizond, a few hours before Batoum, Dr.
To this hour I'm of no use when, as a witness, I'm appealed to for they still absurdly contend about it as to whether or no on that historic night he was drunk; and my position is slightly ridiculous, for I've never cared to tell them what it really was I was taken up with. What I got out of it is the only morsel of the total experience that is quite my own.
The youth of twelve, silent and absurdly sensitive, who made his appearance on the lawn of the peaceful English college on an autumn morning, brought with him a self-love already bleeding, to whom it was a delightful surprise to find himself among comrades of his age who did not even seem to suspect that any difference separated them from him.
It was safe enough to have lights on, since the house is so isolated and there had been no guard here since Thursday." "Well " Sanderson drew a deep breath. "He was a far cleverer man than any of us suspected. The mechanical arrangements were absurdly easy to rig up, in all three cases, but the thinking of them . It is a pity Nita did not fear him as she feared Sprague's vengeance "
For one thing, Germany's methods on the sea will neutralise all her agents can say in her favour that and the relaxation of the restrictions against the press, so that something can be known of what the Allies are doing." "You have known very little?" "Absurdly little." There was some feeling in my tone, and he smiled.
Neither foe could reach them in their warm refuge. "For the youngster of so huge a mother, the snowhouse baby was quite absurdly small. But this defect, by sticking closely to his business, he remedied with amazing rapidity. In fact, if his mother had cared to stay awake long enough to watch, she could fairly have seen him grow.
I'm only half of a suit of clothes; Geraldine always wore the rest of me." "However," said Kathleen mischievously, "you've been very tireless in trying on, they say. It's astonishing you never found a good fit " "That was all part of the dream interval," he interrupted, a little out of countenance, "everything was absurdly unreal. Are you going to be nice to me, Kathleen?"
On being picked up and righted he would account for his emotion quite absurdly yet lucidly and in a way that wrung all hearts. On the second day of packing he looked out from a zareba of furniture under which he had contrived to crawl, and demanded "What's a Spy?" "A Spy?" his mother echoed after he had repeated the question three or four times. "A Spy is a wicked man: worse nor a Prooshian."
Let one's mood be austere as a monk's, with a single twist of her absurdly tiny body this small creature shattered its gravity to atoms. There was no such thing as dignity in Jezebel's presence.
And so much the rather might we consider whether the sun is not absurdly and without probability said to be made for the distinction of time, with the moon and the rest of the planets. For it is said to be the offspring of Good, it supplying both generation and appearance to things visible; as it is from Good that things intelligible both are and are understood.
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