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Unless he could secure an engine of smoother running and more exactly governed and regulated than those available for his dynamo and lamp, Edison realized that he would find it almost impossible to give a steady light. He did not want his customers to count the heart-beats of the engine in the flicker of the lamp.
Miss Howe made the most agreeable excitement you might almost have heard the heart-beats of the wife of the literary and on one occasion current civilian, as she just escaped being introduced, and so availed herself of the dinner's opportunity for intimate observation without letting herself in a particle most clever. Mrs.
He will hear in them the cry of the White Eagle the White Eagle of Poland as she soars wounded and bleeding over the southern plains, or sinks dying into the marshes and forests of Lithuania. It is in these songs that we Poles listen to the very heart-beats of our outraged country. Our songs our music our poets our memories: as a nation that is all we have except the faith in us that never dies.
How we long to pierce the thoughts and feel the heart-beats and watch the trickling tears behind that machine-like exterior, that impassible mask!
"Oh, I knew I knew there was something.... Ben, you mean even at best now he'll be a " She broke off, unable to finish. "Miss Collie, in any case Wils'll never ride again not like a cowboy." That for Columbine seemed the worst and the last straw. Hot tears blinded her, hot blood gushed over her, hot heart-beats throbbed in her throat. "Poor boy! That'll ruin him," she cried. "He loved a horse.
What if he could never get away from it? What if it slept with him, walked with him, talked with him, lived with him, oh, always! But Russy stiffened again with dogged courage. "I had to!" he thought. "I had to, I had to, I had to! When he said things about Her, when it's your mother, you have to." A great time went by, measureless by clock-ticks and aching little heart-beats.
Oponui reached the gate, rushed through, and fell on the earth exhausted. Two priests ran forward and offered their taboo staffs against the entrance of his pursuer. The gods could not be braved by breaking the taboo. With a taunt and a curse at his enemy, the captain returned to the shore where the footprints had disappeared. His heart-beats stifled him. His head was whirling.
"Yes," she answered gravely, "I know I can." Their eyes met in a long look. Lapierre gave the command to shove off, and when the scows were well in the grip of the current, he turned again to the girl at his side. Their hands touched, and again Chloe was conscious of the strange, new thrill that quickened her heart-beats.
Vitus' dance result in comparatively little fatigue, because there is no association of the brain with the muscular action. If a strong man should attempt to perform voluntarily the same movements, he would soon have to rest. None of the movements which are performed independently of the will, as the heart-beats and breathing movements, ever involve the sensation of fatigue.
The girl had written with tears and heart-beats, and then with tears and heart-beats had waited. At last came the words, "I have the honor to acknowledge, etc., very respectfully, etc." It was one of the business-like facts of life unknowingly trampling upon a bleeding sentiment.
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