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He had anchored himself by pure trick of balance, and was pulling with a steady hand almost as soon as Skin, collecting his wits, could reach out to fend the ladder off from crushing the edge of the eaves.
"Very well, then, we'll establish Utopia," said Trirodov, unruffled. "But as a beginning you hope to destroy what exists?" asked Piotr. "Why?" exclaimed Trirodov, astonished. Strangely agitated, Piotr said: "The comrades' proposed division of land, if carried into force, would lead to a crushing of culture and science." "I don't understand this alarm for science and culture," replied Trirodov.
There must be no more crushing of the poor out of existence, for God cares for these people who have been driven to poverty, and they shall never cease out of the land. Howbeit there shall be no poor with you, for the Lord will bless you, if you will obey these laws. But then prosperity came, and culture, which meant contact with the capitalist ideas of the heathen empires.
The Dorsets' invitation to go abroad with them had come as an almost miraculous release from crushing difficulties; and her faculty for renewing herself in new scenes, and casting off problems of conduct as easily as the surroundings in which they had arisen, made the mere change from one place to another seem, not merely a postponement, but a solution of her troubles.
It was because he forgave me and was kind in that awful moment when my crime was crushing my soul. I could not have given up my chance of happiness just because it was right, but the thought that he asked it and that it was for his sake, turned the wavering scale; and now I will trust him to find my life for me again in his own time and way.
For God's justice is as a circle that slowly surrounds an evil and as slowly closes on it with crushing and resistless force, and feverish, fretting humanity, however nobly inspired, can do nothing either to hasten or retard the round, perfect, absolute and Divine Law.
At this moment a strong party of blue-jackets, headed by Captain Falkner, was seen darting forward, while a body of marines followed with fixed bayonets ready to charge. The rebels did not stop to encounter them. Those who were on the ladders leaped hastily down, crushing many below them, and then attempted to seek safety in flight.
It does not suit the present writer to name any individual statesman. He neither wishes to assist in raising a friend to the gods, or to lend his little aid in crushing an enemy. But to the Liberal statesmen of the day, men in speaking well of whom at a great distance he has spent a long life, he is now bound to express himself as opposed.
The depression in shipping afterwards ruined him and he fell to constructing marble vessels! He is dead, by the way. I wonder if his reason has been given back to him in that other world." Lynde did not speak immediately, and the doctor relighted his cigar, which had gone out. "Dr. Pendegrast, you have lifted a crushing weight from me.
White-faced and stern, he hurried to the bench, where Pat fell all over him and many of the players grasped his hands. Up in her box Madge was crushing her score-card and whispering: "Oh! Billie, I could hug you for that!" Two runs on two pitched balls! That was an opening to stir an exacting audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
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