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John Landauer, the man who had uttered the offensive words, turned on hearing the President's mandate. With flashing eyes he glanced in the direction of Osterberg.
Look about you, boy here, at the great God's handiwork; wherever your eyes rest, you see beauty. Look at this silvery flashing river, the lovely great trees, the beautiful cliffs, and up yonder in the distance at the soft blues of the mountains, melting into the bluer skies. Did you ever see anything more glorious than this dale?" "Never," cried the lad enthusiastically. "Good, boy!
This with virtuous indignation flashing from his fierce eyes, and a gesture which defended three helpless feminine things from the unscrupulous machinations of a pair of villains. My ignorance of motor lore bereft me of a weapon with which to parry the attack, but Terry whipped out his sword at last. "The ladies will be protected by their motor coats and our rugs.
Northward, above the walled gardens, the Bear pointing to the diamond flashing of the Pole star. While across all high heaven, dusty with incalculable myriads of worlds, stretched the awful and mysterious highroad of the Milky-Way. The air was keen and tonic though so still.
But it was the middle of the night, and a night in the Orient, with a sky of studded velvet and a sea that flowed by like a smooth roll of dark belting, and he was only Tolliver was his name, from Georgia only a slim young Southern boy dreaming of home and mother, and maybe of a girl he had left behind him, and he looked up at the emblazoned firmament and again at the flashing sea, and then he rested his head on the top chain-rail.
"I like hard work," she said. "Not such as this!" said Piers. "It isn't fit for you. Why can't the lazy hound do it himself?" Her smile passed. "Hush, Piers!" she said. "Not here!" He glanced towards the altar, and she thought a shade of reverence came into his face for a moment. But he turned to her again immediately with his flashing, boyish smile.
He was the tallest of them all, with fierce little freckled face and flashing black eyes in which all the evil passions of four generations back looked out upon a world that had always been harsh. He was commonly known as fighting Buck. "Mikky's in dare. He's hurted. We kids can't leave Mick alone. He might be dead."
Grasping the bell handle with a courageous hand, she gave a pull that must have astonished the occupants of the servants' hall, and led them to believe that some distinguished character had certainly come. The sleek man servant reappeared at the door, ready to make his lowest bow to the great personage, when he beheld the flashing eye of Katy. "How dare you ring that bell again?" snarled he.
Longfellow to be frozen as stiff as a dried herring; and so, now groaning, now with his eye flashing, now with a tear undoubtedly a frozen tear standing in the eye, now clarioning, now sighing, onward and upward he goes: At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior!
Aleck saw how true they were, and their influence was electric; her tears ceased to flow, and her great spirit rose to its full stature again. With flashing eye and grateful heart, and with hand uplifted in pledge and prophecy, she said: "Now and here I proclaim " But she was interrupted by a visitor.
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