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But the fearful pace at which she had just been going told on her. Her legs trembled, and her heart beat like a trip-hammer. She slowed her speed perforce, but still fled industriously up the right bank of the stream.
She would keep on with her mending as if she had not heard; and the whistle would grow more impatient as it approached, calling her to reply. Now he was half way up the slope now only a few yards beyond the grade. She grabbed her mending and began to work industriously. Now he was on the grade he would see her sitting there working as if she had forgotten there was an Adrian Conrad.
He appears to have labored so industriously on the farm as to accumulate a little property, and in 1803 his adherents determined upon emigrating in a body to America, where they were sure of freedom to worship God after their own desires. Rapp sailed in that year for Baltimore, accompanied by his son John and two other persons.
The interval was spent in the same earnest and devoted efforts to promote the welfare and prosperity of his kingdom that his life had exhibited before the war. He was engaged diligently and industriously in repairing injuries, redressing grievances, and rectifying every thing that was wrong.
The success that attended some friends who had gone before them being also industriously published in Ireland, and with all the exaggerations of travellers, gave vigour to the spirit of adventure, and induced multitudes to follow their countrymen, and run all hazards abroad, rather than starve at home.
"What are they going to do with her exhibit her to the public?" "Not for the present. Clarke has been making notes industriously all the year and is about ready to publish. He now wants a few of the big fellows, like Uncle Simeon Pratt, to help boom his book.
Nella brushed the dust from the silk mantle and from Marietta's white skirt very industriously, lest it should betray the secret to Giovanni or any other member of the household. For they had escaped being seen, even when they came back. Nella scolded on in a little sing-song voice, with many rising inflections.
So he applied industriously at various establishments for employment, and received his first lessons in the courteous duplicity which ostentatiously files the application for future reference, and the cruel kindness of frank rebuff. On the morning of the third day of this futile foray, Dennis noticed that the exposed bosom of his dickey was not altogether presentable.
"But while they had been employed in this manner, Alonzo, who foresaw what would happen, had been industriously toiling to a very different purpose. His skill in husbandry had easily enabled him to find a spot of considerable extent and very fertile soil, which he ploughed up with the oxen he had brought with him, and the assistance of his servants.
The excitement constantly grew in volume, and everywhere groups of men and women, as well as children, could be seen discussing the latest news, or it might be industriously trying to save their possessions from the greedy river. Many of the younger generation failed to realize the gravity of the situation. All this bustle was in the nature of a picnic to them.
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