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Great numbers had been slain on both sides, but the Danes ever received fresh accessions of strength, and seemed to grow stronger and more numerous after every battle, while the Saxons were dwindling rapidly.
Desires grow with each acquisition, the capacity for satisfaction diminishes with every gratification, novelty disappears and with the growth of taste little disharmonies offend deeply.
He was conscious of a dawning sense of shame at being even tacitly responsible for such a thing. His fancy conjured up the idea of Dr. Ledsmar coming in and beholding this maudlin and unseemly scene, and he felt his face grow hot at the bare thought. Looking through his fingers, Theron all at once saw something which caught at his breath with a sharp clutch.
Affection may grow in beauty and fervor through immortal ages. Mind may expand and intensify through eternity.
Your hands are good enough, but I wouldn't give much for your eyes. There's where you'd grow poor, if you weren't poor a'ready. Now you didn't know when that pane o' glass was broke. You'd go round and round, and a pane o' glass'd knock out here, and a quart of oil 'ud leak out there, and you'd lose a pound of flour between the sieve and the barrel, and you'd never know how or where."
Ah, well; you will know when I grow into something of what you think you remember in me, and when I grow out of what I really was." "Truly I don't understand, Stephen. But then I am out of training since you went went out of things. Have I changed? Do I seem more dull? I it has not been very gay with me.
"Dear Helene," she said, "what is this terrible trouble that is preying upon your life? Every day you grow thinner and whiter and colder more like a moonbeam than a mortal woman. Soon I fear you will fade from my grasp altogether, and I shall have nothing left but the recollection that you did not care enough for me to confide in me. I am sure there is something dreadful between you and Edward."
Hankey; "Lucy Ellen must be forty, if she's a day." "So she be, Mrs. Hankey so she be; but she is my little lass to me, all the same, and always will be. The children never grow up to them as loves 'em.
There was a light in one room of this cottage as we passed, and Barrett called my attention to it. "There's a man in that shack that I hope we may be able to get, if we ever grow big enough to hire him," he said. Then he added, quite irrelevantly: "He has a daughter, and I'm telling you right now, Jimmie, she's a peach." I let the reference to the daughter go by default.
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