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The tall figure gave another relieving stretch or two of arms and legs; then with moderate pace, and accompanied by a few unknown-looking persons, ascended the portico-steps of the Astor House, disappear'd through its broad entrance and the dumb-show ended. I saw Abraham Lincoln often the four years following that date.
After the coach came a heavy broad-shoulder'd servant riding on a stout grey; who flung us a sharp glance as he went by, and at twenty yards' distance turn'd again to look. "That's luck," observed the pickpocket, as the travelers disappear'd down the highway: "Tomorrow, with a slice of it, I might be riding in such a coach as that, and have the hydropsy, to boot.
Turning my head as the last rider disappear'd on the way to Bodmin, I spied a squat oddly shap'd man striding down the hill very briskly: yet he look'd about him often and kept to the hollows of the ground; and was crossing below us, as it appeared, straight for Joan's cottage. Cried I: "There is but one man in the world with such a gait and that's Billy Pottery!"
Mine Finish'd him. 'T was too great an Honour & more than he Deserv'd, to die by the Hand of a Gentleman." A little later: "This morn disappear'd my Cozen Jessamine. "Nothing discover'd of her Whereabouts," he records from time to time. "This morn saw I Emily & Richard's little Son. 'T is a Fine child, much Resembling my Brother.
Criticks, I saw, that other's names efface, And fix their own, with labour, in the place; Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd, Or disappear'd, and left the first behind. Pope.
"But then the times Grew to such evil that the Holy cup Was caught away to heaven and disappear'd." The Holy Grail.
I thought so too, but they are disappear'd, and the wing'd Chariot's fled. Enter Keplair and Galileus. Bell. See, Sir, they approach. Kep. Most reverend Sir, we, from the upper World, thus low salute you Keplair and Galileus we are call'd, sent as Interpreters to Great Iredonozor, the Emperor of the Moon, who is descending. Doct.
Then its continuance: a full hour pass'd before the last of those earth-ends disappear'd. The sky behind was all spread in translucent blue, with many little white clouds and edges. To these a sunset, filling, dominating the esthetic and soul senses, sumptuously, tenderly, full.
"But then the times Grew to such evil that the Holy cup Was caught away to heaven and disappear'd." The Holy Grail.
The result, as described by an enthusiastic British diarist, was that 'she affoard'd a very pritty prospect while she was floating down the River, every now & then sending up Sky rackets, firing of Cannon or bursting of Shells, & so continued till She disappear'd in the Channell.
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