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I really find a deck-chair most comfortable; lined with pillows it does splendidly as a bed. We like the people; they are generous and kind. Repetto is most helpful. This afternoon he has been fixing the washing-stands. Every one is so interested in seeing anything new; the stove especially is an object of great interest. Saturday, April 2l. It has been very wet.
Trenck raised his hand with a shout of exultation, armed with another stone, and fixing his wild, triumphant glance upon the commandant, he cried: "You see it is useless to endeavor to take me while living. Order the guards to fire! Let me die!" The commandant lacked the power to do as Trenck requested, however willing he may have been to grant his request.
He complicated this exordium by an exposition in which he painted the power and the deeds of the cardinal, that incomparable minister, that conqueror of past ministers, that example for ministers to come deeds and power which none could thwart with impunity. After this second part of his discourse, fixing his hawk's eye upon poor Bonacieux, he bade him reflect upon the gravity of his situation.
The Constitution declares that no money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law. What is meant by "appropriations"? Does not this language mean that particular sums shall be assigned by law to particular objects? How far this pointing out and fixing the particular objects shall be carried, is a question that cannot be settled by any precise rule.
Grace Nugent! put down your pencil, Grace, this minute, and come here!" Miss Nugent obeyed with her usual alacrity; and the moment she entered the room, Lady Clonbrony, fixing her eyes full upon her, said, "There's your cousin Colambre tells me his affections are engaged."
Here we have, as proved by our experiments, two distinct classes of colouring matters. The one class comprises those which are of themselves the actual colour. The colour is fully developed in them, and to dye a fabric they only require fixing in their unchanged state upon that fabric. Such dyes are termed monogenetic, because they can only generate or yield different shades of but one colour.
We must be willing to live wholly in intercession for the kingdom. By fixing our eye on the blessedness and the need of this grace, by thinking of the certainty that God will give it us, by giving ourselves up to it, for the sake of the perishing world, desire may be strengthened, and the first step taken towards the possession of the coveted blessing.
"The night I had a taste of a choke pear, at the hands of your faithful guardians." "Ah! but you shall be better treated this time," smiled Cervera, dropping into a chair opposite the detective, and fixing her sensuous, dark eyes on Nick's calm, unreadable face. "I hope so, señora," he replied. "By the way, what has become of those two stalwart guardians of your treasures?
He could not help fancying that all the brilliant company in the lounge was murmuring under the strains of the band: "That johnny there has certainly eloped with that splendid creature!" "Ed," she asked, fixing her dark eyes upon him, "is anything the matter?" They were having tea at a little Moorish table in the huge bay window of the lounge. "No," he said.
Yes; what is the soul, and whither does it go?" "To eternal life," says the comforting voice of religion. "But what is this change? Where and how shall we exist?" "Above; in heaven," answers the pious man; "it is there we hope to go." "Above!" repeated the wise man, fixing his eyes upon the moon and stars above him.
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