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Of course, too, it has legitimate value in effecting disguises, in changing young into old its efforts in the contrary direction, as a rule, are ghastly failures and in effecting transformations of the exterior of persons.
"Yes, Kalmar," replied the man. "Help! " The cry died at his teeth. "No, no," said Kalmar, shutting his fingers upon his windpipe. "No noise. We are to have a quiet moment here. They are all too busy to notice us. Listen." He leaned far down over the ghastly face of the wretched man beneath him. "Shall I tell you why I am here? Shall I remind you of your crimes? No, I need not.
She found a box of cream and rubbed it on for a foundation. Then she opened some pink powder, and carefully dusted her cheeks. "I am utterly ashamed," she said to the image in the mirror, "but he has done so much for me, he is so, so I don't know a word big enough that I can't bear him to see how ghastly I am, how little worth it.
He had brought over to Oakdene a discourse on the eternity of punishment. Perhaps he honestly believed that people could be frightened to heaven, at any rate he preached a most ghastly sermon, and, what was worse, preached it with vindictive energy.
A ghastly sight, presenting all the horrible features of death which are to be seen on such a field. At one point in our own front, for more than half a mile, the rebels lay so thickly as almost to touch each other.
I don't suppose even the Punjab Government would be base enough to transfer Jack till the new year?" "It seems hundreds of years ago the Punjab and all that doesn't it? Are you glad you came?" "Now it's all over, yes. It has been ghastly here, though. You know we had to sit still and do nothing, and Sir Jim was away so much." "Do nothing! How did you get on with the milking?"
After he had covered the pain-racked, ghastly face, Dru sat in silent meditation, and thought of the shame of it, the pity of it all. Somewhere amongst that human wreckage he knew Gloria was doing what she could to comfort the wounded and those that were in the agony of death.
This juvenile world of Japan ludicrous by birth, and fated to become more so as the years roll on starts in life with singular amusements, with strange cries and shouts; its playthings are somewhat ghastly, and would frighten the children of other countries; even the kites have great squinting eyes and vampire shapes.
And then at the moment of taking leave he treated me to a ghastly muddle of dubious stammers and movements, to an awful display of hesitations. God forgive him me! He had taken it into his fanciful head that I was likely to make some difficulty as to shaking hands. It was too awful for words.
And that elderly seaman of mine, Gambril, had looked pretty ghastly when I went forward to dose him with quinine that morning. He would certainly die not to speak of two or three others that seemed nearly as bad, and of the rest of them just ready to catch any tropical disease going. Horror, ruin and everlasting remorse. And no help. None. I had fallen amongst a lot of unfriendly lunatics!
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