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Far down was another such blot, but fainter, and far up was its like. They were Indian canoes, and the one before him contained but a single occupant. Henry surmised at once that they were sentinels sent there in advance of the main force, and that the trained eyes of the warriors in the canoes would pierce far in the darkness.
My mother will be glad to see you, said the kit rubbing her soft white face against Blot's little black breast. 'It's against the rule to stay out all night, and I promised to be in early; so, good-by, dear. And off trotted Blot along the snowy road, hoping to get home before the hen-house door was shut.
When disabled from age any longer to hold the sceptre of power, he designates his successor, and transmits it to his favorite! What more does he want? Must we blot, deface, and mutilate the records of the country, to punish the presumptuousness of expressing an opinion contrary to his own? What patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging resolution?
London was as strange to me as to her, but long before I was shot upon it I knew it by maps, and drew them more accurately than I could draw them now. But ere the laugh was done the park would come through the map like a blot. 'If you could only be sure of as much as would keep body and soul together, my mother would say with a sigh. 'With something over, mother, to send to you.
It is a blot upon the history of the war that Cortes, yielding to the importunity of his soldiers, permitted Guatemozin to be tortured, in order to gain information regarding the treasure. But no information of value could be wrung from him, and the treasure remained hidden. At the very time of his distinguished successes in Mexico, the fortunes of Cortes hung in the balance in Spain.
'But, he continued, with cold disdain, 'if I searched your whole being with this blade, should I find there any sentiment to blot out, anything with which to satisfy my thirst for vengeance? You are nothing! If you were a man or a woman, I would kill you, but "Sarrasine made a gesture of disgust, and turned his face away; thereupon he noticed the statue. "'And that is a delusion! he cried.
He was at the edge of their line, the nearest to the swamp, and he had been watching patches of ghostly light flitting above the rank water-weeds. For the past few moments those wisps of faded radiance had been gathering into a growing anthropomorphic blot hanging over the morass several yards away. And the misty outlines were now assuming more concrete shape.
My blot of ink is hardly dry. It is a large one, too; of abnormal shape, and altogether monstrous, whether one considers it from the physical side or studies it in its moral bearings. It is very much more than an accident; it has something of the nature of an outrage. It was at the National Library that I perpetrated it, and upon But I must not anticipate.
I cannot tell how long it was that he endured this discipline; but it was long enough to leave a great black blot upon his memory, long enough to send him, trembling for his reason, to the doors of a certain doctor; whereupon with a simple draught he was restored to the common lot of man.
"Or if we believed in a personal God, without whom not a sparrow falleth, though the waters cover the face of the earth and blot out millions of His creatures," answered Adam. "After all, can we do better than follow the dictates of Nature?" "Do you mean to look through Nature up to Nature's God?" answered Robin. "How can we worship any God as pitiless as Nature?
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