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I didn't notice that there were other persons present when I asked leave to kiss you. May I hope that you forgive me?" He held out his hand; it was not taken. He waited a little, in the vain hope that she would relent: she turned away from him. A spasm of pain distorted his handsome face. He opened the door that led to his side of the cottage paused and looked back at Cristel.
I have just been skimming through an illustrated book called "Noa Noa," by a Frenchman, which describes, or pretends to describe, a visit to Tahiti. There is not much fault to be found with it as a narrative, but the pictures of the natives are atrocious. Many of the figures are distorted, and all of them have a smutty look, as if they had been rubbed with lampblack or coal-dust.
"My present wife gave my first wife all her patrimony; and I thought that was generous I thought it was a proof of love. But the newspapers made it that she had bought me!" "And they distorted your second marriage?" asked Thyrsis.
The Renaissance has been called an intellectual bacchanalia, and when we examine the features of the bacchantes they become distorted like those of the suitors in Homer, who anticipated their fall; for this society, this Church, these cities and states in fine, this culture in its entirety toppled over into the abyss which was yawning for it.
"Nurse Joan was wont to say the best for that was a sight of the true Cross, as she once beheld it at Holy Rood church at Southampton," said Ambrose. "And so it is, lad, so it is," said Tibble, with a strange light on his distorted features.
He seemed therefore confident, that, instead of reason we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices; as the reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill shapen body, not only larger but more distorted.” He added, “that he had heard too much upon the subject of war, both in this and some former discourses.
We have no right to peer beyond the boundary God has drawn for us. I saw His hell I saw His hell, I tell you. It is peopled with the damned silent, horrible, distorted in the midst of ashes and desolation. It was a memory that, like the snake of Aaron, devoured all others till yesterday till yesterday, by Christ's mercy."
"Ingratitude is the natural sequence of the distorted political ideals which we are out to destroy. You should be in the frame of mind, Tallente, to see things clearly. You must realise the rotten condition of the political party to which Horlock belongs the Coalitionists, the Whip, or whatever they like to call themselves.
We had turned off the Appian Way and were crossing a corner of that unutterably hideous stretch of tortured and distorted waste known as the Campagna, which goes tumbling away to the blue Alban Mountains, when we came on the scene of an accident.
I was pursuing this favorite occupation one day this year, when an unusually beautiful cloud attracted my attention, and as I watched its rapidly changing forms, there was slowly evolved from it the kindly loving face of my mother. It was no fancy, no distorted figment of a dream.
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