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And yet while the man is made to appear in such hideous colors, his philosophy is exalted to the highest pinnacle of praise, as the greatest boon which any philosopher ever rendered to the world, and the chief cause of all subsequent progress in scientific discovery.
"Do you mean that you don't stand any real show in front of the pair of bright eyes that have made you strike your colors?" "I'm afraid I don't." "Dan, is the game worth the candle," argued Darrin. "You're mightily interested in Belle Meade, aren't you?" "Yes; but that's different, Danny boy." "How is it different, I'd like to know?" "Well, in the first place, there's no guesswork in my case.
My friend called my attention to the fact that the women were dressed differently from Japanese women of the ordinary classes. For example, even among the very poorest heimin there are certain accepted laws of costume; there are certain colors which may or may not be worn, according to age.
There's the beautiful light of the full sun on colors that set you 'most crazy with delight. Pictures that make you feel Providence is just the biggest painter ever set brush to canvas. Then, with a shiver of wind from the north, down the leaves tumble, and right on top of 'em comes the snow, and then you're moving around in a sort of crystal fairy web, and wonder when you'll wake up.
"Abe, you remember how that man who made the speech when our colors were presented to us talked of 'the swelling hearts of our volunteers, don't you?" said Kent Edwards, as he and Abe Bolton lounged near the parade-ground one fine afternoon, shortly after the arrival of the regiment in camp of instruction.
Colors and shades changed in slow, wondrous transformation. Suddenly Venters was startled by a low, rumbling roar so low that it was like the roar in a sea-shell. "Bess, did you hear anything?" he whispered. "No." "Listen!... Maybe I only imagined Ah!"
She was haunted by Rule I., and by the passionate temptation to ignore it and yet pretend that she would keep it in short, to be a member of the Specialities under false colors. One minute she was struggling hard with the trouble which raged within her, the next minute she was making up her mind to decline to be associated with the Specialities.
Not crewel work, not church embroidery, not anything which would admit of the use of modern art colors, but genuine, old-fashioned worsted work. Mrs. Cameron delighted in the flaring scarlets, pinks, greens, blues, and mauves of thirty years ago. She admired with all her soul the hard, staring flowers which these colors produced. They looked, she said, substantial and durable.
"Don't fly no false colors, sticks to his job, ready to take hold of anything from a lobster pot to a sheet anchor, honest grit straight through. Lord, what a ship captain he would make! But they don't teach navigation at your school." "I don't know," answered Brother Bart. "I'm not book-learned, as I've told ye; but there's little that isn't taught at St.
She was self-willed as a changeling, refractory yet gentle, seditious but just, only waiting to strike her colors and proclaim him conqueror; but this he did not know, for she kept well hid in her heart what "woman's fear" she had. She was all her favorite heroines in turn, with herself added to the galaxy.
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