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While Ochiltree was thus recounting the exploits and tricks of his earlier life, with a tone in which glee and compunction alternately predominated, his unfortunate auditor had sat down upon the hermit's seat, hewn out of the solid rock, and abandoned himself to that lassitude, both of mind and body, which generally follows a course of events that have agitated both, The effect of his late indisposition, which had much weakened his system, contributed to this lethargic despondency.
"Well, Sally," he exclaimed, as he re-entered his cottage, "I've been to th' owd spot! They have hewn all abaat it, but th' owd tree stands yet God 'll keep that tree while I live, and then they may do what they like wi' it." So Abe went on, quietly severing himself from one tie after another which bound him to this world, and getting ready for his departure to another and a better.
Both days and years have gone by since the steps were hewn from gray stones and laid down evenly and smoothly for a convenient track between Småland and the East sea. "Since the stairway is so old, one can, of course, understand that it doesn't look just the same now, as it did when it was new.
That cutting in the face of the cliff in the Feng-hsiang Gorge near Kweichou-fu, where a pathway for trackers has been hewn out of the solid rock, was done at his expense, and is said to have cost one hundred thousand taels. Not only by his benefactions has Ch'en laid up for himself merit in heaven, but he has already had his reward in this world.
Besides these things, were seen, on all sides, banners and palanquins, litters with stately dames close veiled, elephants gorgeously caparisoned, idols grotesquely hewn, drums, banners, and gongs, spears, silver and gilded maces.
He sleeps in a beautiful spot near Galen Clark and a monument hewn from a block of Yosemite granite marks his grave. Galen Clark Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. I first met him at his Wawona ranch forty-three years ago on my first visit to Yosemite.
Here coarse and powerful figures and shapeless columns loomed in chaotic confusion, hewn out of the virgin rock, and seemed to date back to an immemorial antiquity. Here a palace with low portals extended its ponderous expanse; it was the palace of King Loc. Directly opposite was the house of Honey-Bee, a house or rather a cottage of one room all hung with white muslin.
Tattered and crumpled he rocked about in the chair, striking his chest against the edge of the table, and began to whisper something. The merchants exchanged significant glances. Some, nudging one another in the sides, shook their heads at Foma in silence. Yakov Mayakin's face was dark and immobile as though hewn out of stone. "Shall we perhaps unbind him?" whispered Bobrov.
So he sent for him and said, 'Ciccu, unless within eight days you bring me the fairest in the whole world, I will have you hewn into a thousand pieces. This mission seemed to Ciccu a hundred times worse than either of the others, and with tears in his eyes he took his way to the stables.
From this landing place a steep road, hewn with untold labour at some ancient day, slanted sharply upward and toward the head of the cove along the face of the rocks, which were somewhat less steep on this side than across the water.
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