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"Fan, do you remember that woman in `The Three Musketeers'? The hellish woman, that all men loved and loathed? Well, Olga's like that. I'm not whining. I'm not exaggerating. I'm just trying to make you understand. And yet I don't want you to understand. Only you don't know what it means to have you to talk to. To have some one who" he clutched her hand, fearfully "You do love me, don't you, Fanny?

Let us take heed lest, by destroying the wrath, we maim the love; and let us take heed lest, by exaggerating the wrath, we empty the love of its sweetness and its preciousness; and let us accept the teaching that these are one, and that the deepest of all the things that the world can know about God lies in that double saying, which does not contradict its second half by its first, but completes its first by its second God is Righteousness, God is Love.

His long, lean face wore a certain expression Janet had come to know, an expression that always irritated Ditmar the conscientious superintendent having the unfortunate faculty of exaggerating annoyances by his very bearing. Ditmar stopped in the midst of dictating a peculiarly difficult letter, and looked up sharply. "Well," he asked, "what's the trouble now?"

I am not exaggerating the importance of this element in his music. It is perpetually present, so that at last one comes to think, as I have been compelled to think this long time, that Purcell wrote nothing but descriptive music all his life.

The chroniclers of the Middle Ages had also spoken of the gigantic cuttlefish that on more than one occasion had, with its serpentine arms, snatched men from the decks of the ships. The Scandinavian navigators, who had never encountered it in their fjords, nicknamed it the kraken, exaggerating its proportions and even converting it into a fabulous being.

They might hear the horses when they wouldn't hear us." "Good idea," said Obed White. "Nothing risk, nothing see." They tethered the horses to the low bushes, marking well the place, as the heavy, white fog was exceedingly deceptive, distorting and exaggerating when it did not hide. Then the three went forward, side by side.

The error in question is that of exaggerating the merit of certain amiable and useful qualities, and of considering them as of themselves sufficient to compensate for the want of the supreme love and fear of God.

But she held the girl's hand and said gently, 'Tell me anything that is on your mind, dear child, though I think I cannot help thinking that you are exaggerating whatever it is that you think you have done wrong. Then out it all came: the confession that many would hardly have understood would have called morbid and fanciful, perhaps.

At home, if her purgatory could be called her home, she was studiously and habitually treated with scorn and contempt, as a creature unworthy to bear the family name, or share the family honors; until at length the child herself began to look upon her fault in the light her father wished her to see it, and with such exaggerating eyes, withal, that she came to think of herself as a dishonored criminal, unworthy even to live.

All this Francis knew perfectly well; but instead of acknowledging it, he tried quite fruitlessly to smooth it over. "Aren't you exaggerating?" he asked. Michael shook his head. "Oh, don't tone it down, Francis!" he said. "Even if I was exaggerating which I don't for a moment admit the effect on my general efficiency would be the same. I think what I say is true." Francis became more practical.