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The eager guests stared into a small, low room, brown with age, and gray, too, as if former dust and cobwebs could not be made wholly to disappear. The two elderly women who stood there looked like captives. Their withered faces wore a look of apprehension, and the room itself was more bare and plain than was fitting to their evident refinement of character and self-respect.

If we can relax this exaggerated state of nervous tension, if we can help them to become fatter and to put on weight, the dyspepsia will disappear with the other symptoms. It is a question still to be answered whether the rare conditions of pyloric spasm and pyloric hypertrophic stenosis are not further developments of the same disturbance.

I ought to have hidden my treasure to have lived almost in retirement with Clemence and you; I should have renounced these fetes these numerous receptions, at which I loved so much to see you shine, thinking, foolishly, to elevate you so high so high, that the past would disappear entirely from your eyes.

Choice and consciousness, doubt and consciousness, are directly related; it is only when conduct becomes established as habit, with choosing relegated to the background, that consciousness, in so far as the act is concerned, becomes diminished. A moderate constant sensation tends to disappear from consciousness, as when we keep our hand in warm water.

You may be at the bottom now, but the wheel is going round, only there is no use opposing the people in their traditions, in their instinct... . And whether the race is destined to disappear or to continue it is certain that the last Gael will die a Catholic." "And the Red Indian will die with the scalp at his girdle." "We won't talk about religion, we'll talk about things we are agreed upon.

we venture to assert, or, we have little hesitation in declaring, or, we may be pardoned for thinking, or, we may say without fear of contradiction, is nearly akin to or, not very far removed from the paradoxical. But I will not examine further the trick of weightiness it takes up too much of my space. Besides, these long 'leaders' are a mere survival, and will soon disappear altogether.

Wherever the necessary environing conditions obtain, they appear, and wherever these conditions fail, they disappear, notwithstanding the most persistent efforts to save them by watering the soil with fresh infusions of the plant. The process of artificially producing mushroom spores is a very simple one, and may be easily followed.

They had been given to her, but she had not heeded them. She saw a brown body shoot through the air from the rocks and disappear into the shining sea. Was it Ruffo? With an effort she remembered that she had left Ruffo in the tall house, in the room where the green parrot was. She walked on slowly till she came to the place where Artois had seen Ruffo with his mother.

A man, rifle in hand and leading a horse, was stealthily crossing the trail to disappear among the large boulders beyond. Melissy did not speak, scarce dared to draw breath, for the man beneath them was Boone. There was something furtive and lupine about him that suggested the wild beast stalking its kill. No doubt he had become impatient to see the end of his foe and had ridden forward.

"I do; and if I were never to see her again I don't think she could recover; she will merely wither away very gently, and in due time will disappear without issue and then, whose is the property?" "As to that, you know there can be no doubt about it; there is the will the stupid; will, by which she got it."