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I was bothered, too, by his Sunday cane; which was amazingly busy about my head as I descended; and against which my hat was but a poor protection. Never before had I an idea of the activity of an old man's arm, and hardness of the knob of an ivory-headed cane. In my hurry and confusion I missed my footing, and fell sprawling on the pavement.
There was a fourteen-foot drop to the street, and the man with the golden stubble on his chin and cheeks swung for a moment to gauge his landing. Quasimodo came after with the agility of an ape. The race down the street began with about a hundred yards in between. Down the hill they went, like phantoms. The distance did not widen. Bears will run amazingly fast and for a long while.
'That six hundred pounds has quickened the pace amazingly! Ten years, perhaps. Then London, and anything you like. Some day I shall be bragging of having taught him! Taught him! He'll be turning the tables on me precious soon. Caught me out twice to-night, and got through the tough bit of the chorus much better than I did. How does he do it? and with that mountain of other things on his shoulders!
She was a woman who came amazingly near to being indispensable. For the moment, Natalie Rathbawne, in reality the beauty which Dorothy by a fraction fell short of being, suffered by comparison with her sister. She was desperately tired that was in her smile. But there was something else: a singular preoccupation which was nearly akin to listlessness.
Absolutely without charm and so homely no, not homely commonplace. No, that's not right, either. She had a startling way of fading and blazing out. One moment she seemed a blank pale, lifeless, colorless, a nobody. The next minute she became amazingly different. Not the same thing every time, but different things."
My duty would be to take in money exactly what I liked! That's what took my fancy so amazingly "tickled" me, as Artemus Ward would have expressed it so I repeat it! Brown of Philadelphia was the soul of honour, as well as distinguished for his smartness and benevolence. He did not want to impose on me, bless you!
She was so amazingly tired, and it was so odious to parade about the pump-room; and if she moved from her seat she should miss her sisters; she was expecting her sisters every moment; so that her dearest Catherine must excuse her, and must sit quietly down again. But Catherine could be stubborn too; and Mrs.
By-the-by, Newland, I committed a great error last night at the club. I played pretty high, and lost a great deal of money." "That is unfortunate." "That was not the error; I actually paid all my losings, Newland, and it has reduced the stock amazingly, I lost seven hundred and fifty pounds.
She found herself liking Jimmy amazingly . . . The hands of the clock pointed to three minutes to the hour. Porters skimmed to and fro like water-beetles. "I can't explain," said Jimmy. "It wasn't temporary insanity; it was necessity." "Very good, Mr. James. I think you had better be taking your seat now." "Quite right, I had. It would spoil the whole thing if they left me behind.
Michel de Mistassini-viewing everything in the full light of the afternoon: the great wooden bridge, covered in and painted red, not unlike an amazingly long Noah's ark; the high hills rising almost from the very banks of the river, the old monastery crouched between the river and the heights, the water that seethed and whitened, flinging itself in wild descent down the staircase of a giant.
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