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You may notice the same thing in many pictures of the later Venetian schools. The greatest accents on the edges are rarely in the head, except it may be occasionally in the eyes. But they love to get some strongly-accented feature, such as a crisply-painted shirt coming against the soft modelling of the neck, to balance the fused edges in the flesh.
"Yes, how appropriately has the great bard of Time, termed Hope 'silver-tongued. And then, its soothing accents are felt and acknowledged in the darkest hour of human trial.
English people of the present day are apt, I know not why, to look somewhat down on incident, and reserve their admiration for the clink of teaspoons and the accents of the curate. It is thought clever to write a novel with no story at all, or at least with a very dull one.
Have no fear!" panted the voice, with an undertone of fervent gratitude in its breathless accents. "What has happened? Where are the rest?" "We have been thrown down an embankment. The lads are gone for help. God only knows what harm is done." Karl's voice died in a stifled groan, and Helen cried out in alarm, "Where are you? You are hurt?" "Not much. I keep the ruins from falling in to crush us.
Her head was averted, and leaning on her left arm she seemed lost in reverie. Egremont fell upon his knee and gently taking her hand he pressed it to his lips. She started, she looked round, agitated, alarmed, while he breathed forth in tremulous accents, "Let me express to you my adoration!
He was standing just where he had started, and gazing along the line of the elevated road, looking for a station, when the familiar accents of the Object again saluted him. When Van Bibber faced him the beggar looked uneasy.
But just now I've got some business to attend to." "You mean I'd be in the way?" "Yes." "Persis." Joel spoke in heart-broken accents. Up till you come into this prop'ty, you was all a man could ask for in a sister." Like many another, Joel found his blessings brightest in retrospect. "But now you're as set as a post and as stubborn as a mule.
In that same mansion in that very chamber what a volume of history had been told off into hours, by the same voice that was now trembling in the air. Many a Governor had heard those midnight accents, and longed to exchange his stately cares for slumber. And as for mine host and Mr.
Midway the stairs, she was halted by hearing her name called in strange, stunned accents, and, turning, saw Ripley Halstead standing in the library door, regarding her with dazed, half-incredulous eyes, as though she were a changeling. Instantly the truth came to her, and with head held high and a slight scornful smile upon her lips she descended and approached him.
"It is not as if you were lonely, you have friends already. We are nothing to you. Soon you will go away, and you will think of the Altenfjord as a dream, and our names will be forgotten. That is natural!" What a foolish rush of passion filled his heart as she spoke in those mellow, almost plaintive accents, what wild words leaped to his lips and what an effort it cost him to keep them hack.
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