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When I went down, and to the hall door at which we had entered the night before, I was surprised to see neither mountains, lake, nor river all flat as a pancake a wild, boundless sort of common, with showers of stones; no avenue or regular approach, no human habitation within view: and when I walked up the road and turned to look at the castle, nothing could be less like a castle.
The letter ran on for a little in the same strain. Hannibal put the letter in his pocket, and sat down at his brother's desk. "It will kill the old man if we all go," he said. "And of all three I'm the one with the best rights to go and get shot." He took from somewhere in his clothes a little gold locket, flat and plain. Each of the St. John boys had carried one since their mother's death.
We got within sight of the clay-built, flat Persian town of Hamadan about 10 p.m., but the car couldn't make any way on the awful roads, so I left Captain Williams at the barracks, and came on to the Red Cross hospital with two Russian officers, one a little the worse for drink. With the genius for muddling which the Russians possess in a remarkable degree no preparations had been made for me.
It serves, at the best, to take the place of an elevation of land in this flat country, is a large and tempting target, and can serve only on very clear days, when there is no ground mist a difficult thing to achieve in Flanders. We were getting closer to the front all the time.
As there was no place for our tent on the rank grass of the plain or the steep side of the hill, we took forcible possession of the winnowing-floor, a flat terrace built up under two sycamores, and still covered with the chaff of the last threshing. The Koords took the whole thing as a matter of course, and even brought us a felt carpet to rest upon.
Along the road travelled the endless procession of camels, asses, oxen, black goats, and foot-passengers, which enlivened to such an extent that peaceful, flat landscape. I had already noticed when in Holland the additional importance given to figures by a flat country; the lack of hills makes them stand out, and as they usually show against the sky they loom larger.
Time only meets with flat contradiction when he ventures to tell a woman that she is growing old. Herbert Linley had rashly anticipated that the "young lady," whom it was the object of his visit to see, would prove to be young in the literal sense of the word. When he and Miss Wigger stood face to face, if the door had been set open for him, he would have left the house with the greatest pleasure.
Many of them claim to have ascended this stream for more than one hundred miles, and speak of it there as quite a large river. They say that at that distance it has reached the level of the plateau, and the country adjoining it they describe as flat and swampy, rising very little above the river.
Warrington picked up the hose. "Sahib!" cried the Lascar in protest. "Be still!" ordered Warrington. "Craig, for the last time, will you get up?" "No!" Warrington turned the key, and a deluge of cold salt-water struck Craig full in the chest. He tried to sit up, but was knocked flat. Then he rolled over on the deck, choking and sputtering.
In the second, ideas are expressed in the sounds of the scale; this is music. In the third, ideas are expressed in rigid forms either round, as in sculpture, or flat, as in painting. We may call this third art painting, that being its most popular phase." "I see your difficulty," said I. "If drama is not one of the arts, the procession cannot be a branch of drama.
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