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At length this fluttering, whispering crowd were silenced by the ringing of the bell which announced the rising of the curtain. The piece began, and never had Eckhof displayed such fire, such enthusiasm; the students had never exhibited such rapt and earnest attention.
These reconnoitring parties exhibited considerable boldness at times, but since they had no purpose in view save to discover whether or not we were moving, I did not contest any ground with them except about our outposts.
But the conversation did not end here; and one who had before borne little part in it a man of some distinction in literary as well as political life, was drawn out by what had occurred, to make a statement with reference to himself which exhibited another phenomenon in supernaturalist belief a man who not only had a superstition and acknowledged it, but could give a reason for holding it.
This opened the eyes of the boys to the commercial utility of the work they were engaged in for the first time. George rushed over and brought Tom and Harry to the laboratory, and exhibited the mirrors, and explained that they intended to make a number of small ones to take with them. "That is a capital idea. Won't the natives go wild over them?"
Whether he had left the tower the previous evening with a sore heart and was inclined to identify his new friend with his old enemy, or whether he was merely occupied with his own thoughts, Leigh now felt that his manner really exhibited some constraint.
For a considerable portion of his term, the entire docket of both civil and criminal business devolved on Mm, when an additional Judge was allowed the county. He presided at some very important State trials, in which, as in the disposition of a very large amount of civil business, he exhibited abundant legal learning and judicial discrimination.
Alfred, like Washington, was distinguished for a very extraordinary combination of qualities which exhibited itself in his character, viz., the combination of great military energy and skill on the one hand, with a very high degree, on the other, of moral and religious principle, and conscientious devotion to the obligations of duty.
When the Frenchmen saw that we had taken them, and that we were wide awake, they did not dream of breaking their word; but had we exhibited any carelessness, or any undue confidence in them, the honour they had pledged would not, I suspect, have resisted the temptation which they would have felt again to try and take the ship from us. As it was, all went on very quietly.
In one wing of the temple is exhibited articles from one thousand to four thousand years old old bronzes, and arms, and first attempts at pottery and lacquer. Some of these illustrate arts that are lost fur back in the past I d'no how or where, nor Josiah don't.
"Mother of Heaven!" exclaimed she, in a yet fiercer tone, and with a more masculine manner than she had yet exhibited,"Catherine Seyton approach her lips to a man's brow, and thou that man! vassal, thou liest!"
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