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It became impossible to remain an impassive spectator. Several of the wounded were dropped. The subadar major stuck to Lieutenant Cassells, and it is to him the lieutenant owes his life. The men carrying the other officer, dropped him and fled. The body sprawled upon the ground. A tall man in dirty white linen pounced down upon it with a curved sword. It was a horrible sight.
In her hand she held an open telegram. "Listen, Nan! Oh" seeing the other's startled, apprehensive face "it's good news this time!" Good news! Nan stared at her with an expression of impassive incredulity. There was no good news that could come to her. "It seems horrible to feel glad over anyone's death, but I simply can't help it," went on Kitty.
Day ob judgment's comin' in mornin'! Some nice buttermilk? I done git rich; t'at's my cow," and she pointed to the field and chuckled. Peter felt as if his brain were turning. "Bless de Lord, I no more slave," said old Sibyl, looking up with impudent scrutiny at her old mistress's impassive face. "Yo' know Mars' Middleton, what yo' buy me f'om? He my foster-brother; we push away from same breast.
Miss Lancaster, a thin, erect woman of fifty, with impassive features, and iron-gray hair that looked as if it were rolled over wood, glanced resignedly from Mrs. Spencer's orange-coloured crimps to the imprisoned sunlight in Florrie's hair.
"Despite the fact that the merchant was a familiar figure in this enclosure, he believed that he remarked an unusual degree of interest awakened by his presence, and was assured that he detected more than one sinister and smiling glance directed, with covert insinuation, upon his impassive countenance. "An uneasy suggestion of conspiracy met him at every turn.
Will you be all right if I leave you for a few hours?" Her face darkened a little but she nodded. "If you must. You have been very kind, monsieur. You brought me here?" Her eyes fell on her leather coat flung over the end of the bunk and she flushed, looking sideways at the man. He seemed impassive, unconscious, and her puzzled gaze wandered over his face and form.
My deflected argument ran on somewhat aimlessly till it found itself plunging full tilt against the barrier of Mrs. Fontage's silence. She sat as impassive as though I had not spoken. Eleanor loosed a few fluttering words of congratulation and encouragement, but their flight was suddenly cut short. Mrs. Fontage had risen with a certain solemnity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Maupassant's short-stories are generally conceded to be the best in French literature. He handles his materials with great care, and his descriptions of scenes and characters are unequalled. In his first writings he seems impassive to the point of frigidity. He is a recorder who sets down exactly the life before him. This is one of the lessons he learned from Flaubert.
Blob, impassive as a jellyfish, was still sucking at his apple. Quick and clear Kit gave his orders. "Knapp, stop tinkering those bolts about, and stand back till I give the word! Now, Blob, listen here! Knapp and I are going through this door down the drain. You'll stand here with the lantern, and light us, d'you see?" "Ah!" said Blob. "You're not to stir, d'you see, boy?" "Aw!" said Blob.
There he sat a long time, apparently impassive. Harry sometimes took his eyes away from the combat for the Peach Orchard and Little Round Top to watch his commander-in-chief. But the general never showed emotion. Now and then General Hill or his military secretary, General Long, came to him and they would talk a little together, but they made no gestures.
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