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He had expected to find her sad and comparatively silent, but he had never seen her in a more lively mood, full of light talk and jest and a gay good-humor that could not have failed to infect the most hardened cynic.
Fever, famine and dysentery are daily increasing, deaths from hunger daily occurring, averaging weekly twenty men, women and children thrown into the graves without a coffin dead bodies in all parts of the country, being several days dead before discovered no inquests to inquire how they came by their death, as hunger has hardened the hearts of the people.
And after they have hardened their hearts and stiffened their necks against the Holy One of Israel, behold the judgments of the Holy One of Israel shall come upon them. And the day cometh that they shall be smitten and afflicted.
Not all drivers take their teaching meekly, and the new traffic officer near the end of his shift had pessimistically decided that the driving world is composed mostly of blamed idiots and hardened criminals. He gritted his teeth ominously when Casey Ryan came down upon the crossing at double the legal speed. He held his breath for an instant during the crash that resounded for blocks.
It seems probable, however, that Procter's force was not such as to warrant movement with a view to permanent occupation beyond Detroit, the more so as the roads were usually very bad; but any effort on the part of the Americans to establish posts on the Maumee, or along the lake, must be promptly checked, if possible, lest these should form bases whence to march in force upon Detroit or Malden, when winter had hardened the face of the ground.
And entering into the synagogue, he spake boldly during three months, reasoning and persuading the things that concern the kingdom of God. And when some were hardened, and infidel, speaking evil of the way before the people, he withdrew from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
His voice hardened as his temper got the better of him with the recollection of his sincerity in asking her and her present ingratitude, and he stepped across to her side and held her by the shoulders, so that she shook under his grasp. "Remember, my lady, I was your master once! I will be your master again. If you are any man's wife you are mine!" The threshers now began to stir below.
Again, in their relations to Tone, I place the oil varnishes first; and I think the point is pretty generally conceded, for what is on the face power, which some attribute to the brittle, assertive nature of the gums hardened by alcohol, is not in reality such, but often aggressive noise, losing itself the more you retreat from it, leaving real tone little to say for itself.
And now, gentlemen, I would fain be alone." "Remorseless villain!" I could not help exclaiming under my breath as he moved away. He turned quickly back, and looking me in the face, without the slightest anger, said, "An execrable villain if you like not a remorseless one! Her death alone sits near, and troubles my, to all else, hardened conscience.
Her mind was not the abode of hardened convictions, but was tender to sentiment, and something in his manner at once softening her, she said: "Nonsense? I dunno 'bout that. You see " and her eyes took on a far away look "I had a home once an' I ain't forgot it a home up over our little saloon down in Soledad. I ain't forgot my father an' my mother an' what a happy kepple they were.
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