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Amid the tumultuous pursuits of selfishness, where all were eager to gratify their own passions and appease the capricious cravings of vanity, how might truth and worth ascertain success?
Love! love! all my inner life has been enmeshed in it in craving, in seeking, in destroying. It is like a curse upon me, Karen. You will not understand; yet that love of love, is it not so with all us wretched women; do we not long, always, all of us, for the great flame to which we may surrender, the flame that will appease and exalt us, annihilate us, yet give us life in its supremacy?
At last they managed to reach it, and made their way out over the heights that blocked their way, along very steep paths, into the higher ground. Then Thorkill told them to take no more of the herds that were running about in numbers on the coast, than would serve once to appease their hunger. If they disobeyed, the guardian gods of the spot would not let them depart.
There's only this slight excuse that we were mounting towards the highest part of the moor, which was naturally the clearest. The mist seems to have gathered from all around." Margaret looked and shivered, but hastened to appease his anxiety. "I think we did notice, but as we were expecting rain, a little mistiness was natural. We could not tell that it was going to spread like this. Never mind!
It was a hard miserable life, and each succeeding day only seemed to bring her nearer to the disastrous end prophesied by the mournful laundrywoman of Dudley Grove. How weary she often was with walking hour after hour, sometimes feeling so famished that she could hardly refrain from picking up the orange-peels from the street to appease the cruel pangs of hunger!
It was a shady easy-going place, with pleasant gardens about the houses, and something of Quaker repose and substantial thrift lent a charm to its busy life. Men were still living who could remember when unbroken forests held the place of Penn's city: "And the streets still reëcho the names of the trees of the forest, As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose haunts they molested."
Low spirits who cause people to become angry and to do little evil deeds. In some cases they cause insanity. Sarinago. Spirits who steal rice. It is best to appease them, otherwise the supply of rice will vanish rapidly. Tagasoro. Beings who cause sudden anger which results in quarrels and death. They are the ones who furnish other spirits with human flesh. 4 and 5.
And it is thus that, subduing all things, they live at last in gardens where the flowers are stars, and where the leaves of the trees sing. They exterminate dragons, they raise and appease tempests, they seem in their ecstatic visions to be borne above the earth. Their wants are provided for while living, and after their death friends are advised by dreams to go and bury them.
An ardent desire, which each passing minute heightened and irritated, was upbuoying them, like a more and more devouring thirst, which only the waters of the miraculous fountain could appease. And more fervently than any of the others, La Grivotte, sitting up on her mattress, and joining her hands, begged and begged that she might be taken to the Grotto.
She bit off one of her fore paws and threw it to that poor beast that he might appease his hunger." And the Fox, in relating this, dried a tear. Pinocchio was also touched and, approaching the Cat, he whispered into her ear: "If all cats resembled you, how fortunate the mice would be!" "And now, what are you doing here?" asked the Fox of the puppet.
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