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The bird rose majestically upward, and then, drawing in its long neck, was seen winging its way toward the lower end of the valley. It was observed that before parting with the bird Carlos had plucked from its shoulders the long gossamer-like feathers that distinguish the heron species. These he was tying into a plume.
And as the beautiful, young mother, bending that set, ashen face of hers above it, laid the child upon her knees, it stretched, clenching soft baby fists and rubbing them into its blue eyes. Katherine unwrapped the shawls, and took off one small garment after another delicate gossamer-like things of fine flannel, lawn and lace, such as women's fingers linger over in the making with tender joy.
But Michael's grave and expectant face that Michael who had been so eagerly kind about meeting his debts for him warned him that, however gossamer-like his own emotions were, he must attempt to ballast himself over this. "Are you speaking seriously?" he asked. "Quite seriously. I never did anything that was so serious." "And that is what you want my opinion about?" he asked.
This possibility should be considered before opening fire." Thorn Hard stiffened all over. He got up and swung down to the stubby little ship with its gossamer-like wings of cellate. He touched the report button. "Plane 257-A reporting seven-ten line. Thorn Hard flying. On Mount Wendel, on leave. Orders?" He was throwing on the screens even as he reported.
Electricity with us is so potent an agent that it is used for this purpose, transferring the image and stamping it there. These fabrics are more delicate and gossamer-like than any with which you are familiar on earth.
A world cataclysm. A day of judgment. A day of fire and ashes. A world burned and swept bare of life. All the flowers of art; the beautiful, gossamer-like works of glorious literature; the sweet and lovely creations of the souls of men long since perished, and now the inestimable heritage of humanity; all, all crushed, torn, leveled in the dust.
They had left their best notes on the hawthorns and among the roses; but the crickets made a cheerful chirrup, and the great brown butterflies displayed their richest velvets, and the gossamer-like insects in the dreamy atmosphere performed dances and undulations full of grace and mystery.
The log-hut is replaced by a pretentious frame-dwelling with portico and verandahs almost a mansion. The little maize patch, scarcely an acre in extent, is now a splendid plantation, of many fields in which wave the golden tassels of the Indian corn, the broad leaves of another indigenous vegetable the aromatic "Indian weed," and the gossamer-like florets of the precious cotton-plant.
He evidently had not guessed that she was in the little room which served as a nursery the room which had once been Dalrymple's laboratory. She did not read the letter again, but she found a match and set fire to it, and watched it as it burned to black, gossamer-like ashes on the brick floor.
She spoke of his ill-looks kindly and with some apprehension. "I am all right," he assured her, "but a little dull. Take pity on me and come out to dinner one night this week." They dined in the annex of a fashionable restaurant practically out of doors a cool green lawn for a carpet and a fountain playing close at hand. Mary wore a white dinner-gown, gossamer-like and airy.
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