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It was a cold-blooded thing to say, but Burgess, though filled with jealousy, was conscientious now in his belief that Burleigh was really a low grade fellow, deserving no leniency nor recognition. "But you haven't given me any standing yet, the coach says." Vic's voice was dead calm. "I have no standing to give you. You are below grade." Vic's eyes blazed. "You dog!" was all he could say.
Columns of smoke rose where the night-fires had blazed, and the clash of the Moorish cymbal, the bray of trumpet, and the neigh of steed were faintly heard from the airy heights.
"Wallace is a stranger to the course, but I doubt if Kirkaldy or anyone living can beat him seven strokes." Harding covered LaHume's money, and the latter placed several hundred dollars more at the same odds. Miss Lawrence heard he was betting against Wallace, and her eyes blazed with indignation. "You go to Mr. LaHume," she said to Marshall, "and ask him what odds he will give that Mr.
We slept, rolled up in our blankets, on the floor of a Chinese compound ... adventurers bound up and down the river, to and from Tien-Tsin and Woo-shi-Woo and Pekin ... a sort of caravanserai.... Though it was the fall of the year and the nights were cold enough to make two blankets feel good, yet some days the sun blazed down intolerably on our boat, on the river....
We talk as if we could see the end, and we're nowhere near it, we're in all the muddle of the middle that's why we're hampered with Miss Quincey and other interesting relics of the past." "We are slowly getting rid of them." At that Rhoda blazed up. She was young, and she was reckless, and she had too many careers open to her to care much about consequences.
For a moment the fierce heart of Primitive Woman had blazed up within her that fire which all the waters of baptism fail to quench. But the flame died down as suddenly as it had arisen, and appealing with outspread hands, as to some invisible judge, she wailed, miserably: "Oh, what am I to do what am I to do? I love you so much, and it's all no use." Ian was as white as herself.
"I I don't think I would tell you if I knew," said Sylvia, turning her head away. "You see I don't want you to help caring." "Sylvia!" You never saw such a transformation as came over the Old Fellow. His eyes just blazed, but his face went white. He bent forward and took her hand. "Sylvia, do you mean that you you actually care a little for me, dearest? Oh, Sylvia, do you mean that?"
The fires of conflict have blazed so high that never in early times, not in the Middle Ages, not in recent centuries hath there ever been such a hideous war, a war that is even as millstones, taking for grain the skulls of men.
In its early form of libretto it had a run of fifty-six representations, and was then withdrawn from the stage; and the work of remodeling from five to three acts, and other improvements in the dramatic framework, was thoroughly carried out. In its new form the opera blazed into an unprecedented popularity, for of the greatness of the music there had never been but one judgment.
Corona was in her dressing-room, a high vaulted chamber, somewhat sombrely furnished, but made cheerful by a fire that blazed brightly in the deep old-fashioned chimney-piece. Candles were lighted upon the dressing-table, and a shaded lamp stood upon a low stand near a lounge beside the hearth.
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