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In small states, opinion is concentrated and strong every eye reads your actions your public motives are blended with your private ties every spot in your narrow sphere is crowded with forms familiar since your childhood the applause of your citizens is like the caresses of your friends.
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As the sun rose above the horizon, the sky presented a magnificent spectacle. Every shade of saffron, gold, rose-color, scarlet, and crimson, mottled with the deepest violet, were blended there as on some enormous tapestry. It was the storm-fiend who shook that gorgeous banner in the face of the day-god!
A murmur of a thousand voices blended with the rattle of mechanical trains and the tooting of toy horns. Impatient salesmen called "Cash, cash, cash!" at the top of their lungs. Wails arose from hot, disgruntled infants. Now and then a large steam engine in operation at one counter corner, whistled shrilly when mischievous juvenile hands swung back the throttle.
Around chief and clansmen circled a large number of brehons, shanachies, poets, bards, and harpers poetry, music, and war strangely blended together.
"We are come at last to the two pictures in which, according to my opinion, history and poetry are happily blended with landscape . One represents the moment when Cincinnatus is invited by the consuls to leave the plough, in order to take the command of the Roman armies.
"It is not that fellow who has had the loss in your Grace's service: it is I, John of Ramorny." "You!" said the Prince; "you jest with me, or the opiate still masters your reason." "If the juice of all the poppies in Egypt were blended in one draught," said Ramorny, "it would lose influence over me when I look upon this."
This loss, which was less than the others, had exasperated him; for in spite of his efforts to banish them from his thoughts he was continually coming again across the Barbarians. Their excesses were blended with his daughter's shame, and he was angry with the whole household for knowing of the latter and for not speaking of it to him.
Before we reached home, Catherine's displeasure softened into a perplexed sensation of pity and regret, largely blended with vague, uneasy doubts about Linton's actual circumstances, physical and social: in which I partook, though I counselled her not to say much; for a second journey would make us better judges. My master requested an account of our ongoings.
Scarcely had we taken our places when a chorus of many voices singing the angel's greeting, "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth," recalled to our happy hearts the sacredness of the morning. Violins and horns blended with the voices; then, before even the most excited could feel the least emotion of impatience, the music ceased.
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