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Of critical faculty they have none; the most childish nonsense is accepted by them, with the gravest face; no story is too silly, no falsehood too glaring, for them to believe and to retail, in fullest confidence of its truth. Gross ignorance is one of their characteristics; they are superstitious, credulous, illiterate, to an almost incredible extent.
Quinn sat like an image of wood, showing life only in that one glaring, pale eye. "How bes ye feelin' now, Jack?" asked the visitor. The hulking fellow by the stove did not speak, but the hand that held his pipe twitched ever so slightly. "Orders be orders," continued the skipper. "The lads who obeys me fills their pockets wid gold an' them who don't get hurt. But I bain't a hard man, Jack Quinn.
Miss Patty went white but Miss Summers was not a bit put out. She simply picked up the howling dog and confronted Mr. von Inwald. "Perhaps you didn't notice," she said sweetly, "but you kicked my dog." "Why don't you keep her out of the way?" he snarled, and they stood glaring at each other.
It was covered with inscriptions from top to base, in vivid white and blue, save where a vast and glaring kinematograph transparency presented a realistic New Testament scene, and where a vast festoon of black to show that the popular religion followed the popular politics, hung across the lettering Graham had already become familiar with the phonotype writing and these inscriptions arrested him, being to his sense for the most part almost incredible blasphemy.
"Reckon they must be trying to get out again," he muttered, glancing at the ship's stern. He was then sensible of a dizziness and a roaring in his ears. A black savage face was glaring upon him from the window of the captain's stateroom, from whence protruded the barrel of a rifle. After that his sight grew dim; something wet trickled down on one of his hands, and outward things became a blank.
Then they stood there, glaring at the two poor plebes in "cit." clothes. "Good evening, gentlemen," nodded Dave pleasantly, as he rose and stood by the study table, waiting to hear the pleasure of his visitors. Dan Dalzell favored his callers with a nod, but remained seated, both hands thrust deep in his pockets.
"Well, I am not disputing how much sense she has, but I still declare that she has clothes enough now, without our furnishing her any more for Christmas." "That's all you know about it!" cried an indignant voice behind them, and both startled ladies turned hastily around to find a pair of flashing brown eyes glaring out from under the janitor's old coat in the corner, "If Mrs.
The contrast between you and anything approaching the ugly or the commonplace, is too glaring to be aught else than displeasing." "He didn't say it," replied the Woman of the World; "and besides it isn't ugly. It's the very latest fashion." "Why is it," asked the Philosopher, "that women are such slaves to fashion?
It needs something more than any of us can do to make the thought that we do stand in the full glaring of that great searchlight, not turned occasionally but focussed steadily on us individually, a joy and a blessing to us. And what we need is offered us when we read, 'His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength, and I fell at His feet as dead.
I glanced over my shoulder, and the pilot-house was yet full of noise and smoke when I made a dash at the wheel. The fool-nigger had dropped everything, to throw the shutter open and let off that Martini-Henry. He stood before the wide opening, glaring, and I yelled at him to come back, while I straightened the sudden twist out of that steamboat.
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