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Carlos and I were ready to accompany him; but Tim, who had listened attentively, took an opportunity of speaking to me on the subject, saying "It's all very fine, Mr. Maurice, for Mr.
"There's no doubt about it," he muttered, "but how can there be a draught here?" As he spoke the humming sound strengthened and with it the draught blew stronger. "Merciful God!" cried Coquenil in a flash of understanding, "it's a blower!" "A blower?" repeated the girl. M. Paul turned his face upward and listened attentively. "No doubt of it!
The road wound partly through the woods. In some places the boughs, bending over from opposite sides, nearly met. At present the branches were nearly destitute of leaves, and the landscape looked bleak. But in the summer nothing could be more charming. From his seat, beside Ajax, Henry Morton regarded attentively the prominent features of the landscape.
Amasis listened attentively, drawing figures the while in the sand with the golden flower on his staff. At last he spoke: "Verily, Croesus, I the great god, the 'sun of righteousness, 'the son of Neith, 'the lord of warlike glory, as the Egyptians call me, am tempted to envy thee, dethroned and plundered as thou art. I have been as happy as thou art now.
His profession; he was silent. Several other questions were put, to none of which he returned any reply. Pleydell wiped the glasses of his spectacles and considered the prisoner very attentively. 'A very truculent- looking fellow, he whispered to Mannering; 'but, as Dogberry says, I'll go cunningly to work with him. Here, call in Soles Soles the shoemaker.
She regarded these bold and often alluring ideas with shy admiration, without giving herself up blindly to their influence; she listened cautiously to the preaching of the apostle, but found in it neither a new life, nor happiness, nor truth, and, though she followed attentively what he had to say, it was only because she was drawn on by the ardent desire to find the reality that lay behind Mark's extraordinary and audacious personality.
Some of the bystanders saw me looking very attentively at the principal actor, and, as I suppose, suggested to the party the propriety of retiring to some other spot, for immediately afterwards they all went behind a partition, which afforded me an opportunity of distinctly hearing all that passed, without being observed by them. I soon found that the subject of debate was a song.
She will become a country of haughty squireens the most contemptible class of all, men of blackened honour and broken faith, men proud, but with nothing to be proud of and of ruined traders; a land of ill-cultivated fields and ruined mills; a nation crushed by her conqueror." Neal listened attentively.
He looks attentively at the picture, as if he had forgotten his own existence in the happiness of the cherubs. Grace Plumer glances at him for a few moments with a peculiar expression. It is full of admiration, but it is not the look with which she would say, as she just now said to Sligo Moultrie, "You always speak sincerely." She is still looking at the Prince, when Mr.
This warlike personage, upon entering the house, seated himself at some distance from the spot where Toby and myself reposed, while the rest of the savages looked alternately from us to him, as if in expectation of something they were disappointed in not perceiving. Regarding the chief attentively, I thought his lineaments appeared familiar to me.
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