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It is therefore most desirable to practise it piano also by way of variety, for otherwise the strength of tone might easily degenerate into hardness, and in the poetic striving after a realistic portrayal of a storm on the piano the instrument, as well as the piece, would come to grief.
Ross was a capital host, and as the only possible entertainment he could offer his guests was work upon the estancia he gave them plenty of it; and the out-of-door life, in spite of the heat and the want of newspapers, the mosquitoes, and other minor ills, was full of interest and touched with a sense of freedom and hardness.
But I only again beg of you to have a care of yourself. You have promised silence, and I, on my part, will carry on my search for the truth." "The truth of what?" "The truth concerning Gabrielle Engledue." The pretty little woman again looked at me very straight in the face for some moments without speaking. Then, with a strange hardness about her mouth, she said: "Mr.
The boys were probably always teasing you and you defended yourself. In a way the life you have led has made you hard. But it is just a surface hardness nature has provided as a protection to you." "Since it is there, I don't see that it helps much to decide why it is a part of me," she returned with a wan little smile. "But it does," he insisted. "It matters a lot.
The sign, the wonder is, in fact, the lower thing, granted only because of men's hardness of heart and slowness to believe in itself of inferior nature to God's chosen way. Yet, if signs and wonders could help them, have them they should, for neither were they at variance with the holy laws of life and faithfulness: they were but less usual utterances of the same. "Go thy way: thy son liveth."
Once he had tried to take his wife's hand as she stood with her face pressed to the window trying to see if she could make out the dim outline of David returning with Anna, but she withdrew her hand impatiently as she had never done in the thirty years of their married life. Amasy's hardness was a thing no longer to be condoned.
Selecting the smallest of the jewelled blades upon the floor, he thrust it into her hands. It is good to have in one's veins the liquid fire of the North, blood to which the presence of peril is like the touch of the Ice King to water. At the first clash of the blades, strange tingling fires began to flash through Randalin, and then a hardness, that burnt while it froze.
"But if you love me," he stammered. Sally's face was darkened. She had tears in her eyes, and her mouth was thin and hard. There was altogether a hardness in her expression that terrified Gaga. "Even if I did," she said in a grim voice. "But we could be married," he urged. Married! Sally's heart gave a jump. Her cheeks were suffused. Married! She could hardly conceal her amazement.
Barren fig-tree, hearken, judicial hardening is dreadful! There is a difference betwixt that hardness of heart that is incident to all men, and that which comes upon some as a signal or special judgment of God.
"Not more than ten minutes, he said, sir," Kemp's optimism seemed to ricochet against his master's hardness and come back unhurt. "He will send a closed car and will have your rooms ready for you." "Serves me right for not wiring," said Dalton, "but who would believe there is a place in the world where a man can't get a taxi?"
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