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If his beloved master was transported with rage, it was evidently the moment for him to show some feeling also, and to go and seize by the throat man or beast who had caused this tumult. His round, faithful, adoring eyes were upturned, and every fat wrinkle quivered with love and readiness to obey the smallest command, while he snorted and slobbered with emotion.
"Must be your morals then," retorted Emma McChesney. "My! My! And on the road! Why, the trail of bleeding hearts that you must leave all the way from Maine to California would probably make the Red Sea turn white with envy." The Fresh Young Kid speared a piece of liver and looked soulfully up into the adoring eyes of the waitress who was hovering over him.
If the poet exalts memory to this station, he may indeed claim that he is not furtively adoring his own petty powers, when he reverences the visions which Mnemosyne vouchsafes to him. And indeed Plato's account of memory is congenial to many poets. As an explanation for inspiration, the theory recurs in verse of other poets. One writer inquires,
He was losing his favourite child, whose opening intelligence had already begun to display a marked resemblance to his own an adoring pupil, who, in a few years, might have become an almost adequate companion.
Nor did he wish that any other light than that of the Dove should illumine her and the figures that are round her, such as a S. Margaret and a S. Catherine, who are on their knees, adoring her, while S. Peter and S. John the Evangelist are standing, contemplating her, together with S. Filippo, the Servite Friar, and S. Antonino, Archbishop of Florence.
"Pop-pa!" shrieked Vada, dropping a paper full of loose dirt and stones upon her sprawling brother's back, in her haste to reach her diminutive parent. "Uh!" grunted Jamie, scrambling to his feet and tottering heavily in the same direction. There was a curious difference in the size and growth of these twins. Probably it utterly escaped the adoring eyes of their father.
They had not discovered the art, as we Catholics have done, of making a God out of bread, and of adoring and eating him at one and the same moment. Yet we do not advise the immediate disturbance of this venerable piece of rottenness and absurdity.
The Winnebagos and Sandwiches were a procession all to themselves, led by the stately judge with a twin hanging on each arm. Behind him came Nyoda and the adoring Winnebagos like Diana surrounded by her maidens, while Katherine stalked in the rear of the parade leading the angel-faced Sandhelo, on whose back she had set a tired youngster.
Her heart burst out singing within her, and the eyes she raised toward her captor were adoring in their gratitude. The look she met in return was the same look of mingled strength and gentleness which had come through the starlight to answer her question. Once again that calm of weary trustfulness settled over her.
His palms against hers had been warm, his adoring eyes had caressed her, but she did not care. All she wished now was to reach her hotel, and then her bed. After a good night's rest, however, Alaire was able to smile at yesterday's adventure.
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