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Poor Miss Pritty had no near relations in the world except Edgar, and therefore there was little or no probability that any one would telegraph to her in connection with accident or death, nevertheless she entertained such an unconquerable horror of a telegram, that the mere sight of the well-known envelope, with its large-type title, gave her a little shock; the reception of one was almost too much for her.
In one vivid sentence he graphically described his aged grandfather as the old man donned his spectacles and devoutly read his faith unclouded by any shadow of doubt his morning chapter from the well-worn, large-type Bible.
Little Jenny in particular felt quite a cold but pleasant shiver of notoriety as she thought of it, while to her lover the delighted perusal and reperusal of a large-type leading article, headed "In Darkest Coalchester!" brought a new sense of power.
But all can lead fairly happy lives by following his large-type platitudinous maxim, "Fear nothing, make the best of everything." In other words, the large majority, who are not and never can be so easily and pleasantly circumstanced as Mr.
I saw drops of perspiration standing on my father's forehead, and was deeply pained to see his anguish of mind, without being able to do anything to help him. A little while after he went out into the office with a candle and came back with an old large-type prayer-book, in which he turned to a prayer and a hymn to be sung during a storm at sea.
In the tenement region, particularly in the little back alleys around Mulberry Street, he mended pots, kettles, pans and umbrellas not always for money, but as often for the privilege of reading to these people messages of comfort out of his large-type New Testament.
Then the same young woman, having found the correct page, handed him the large-type book. Then the man at the harmonium struck up, and the whole congregation burst into song. They sang with a fervent strength that he had never heard equaled.
Twice each Sunday, with her large-type Prayer-book in her hand, and her steel-rimmed spectacles on her thin nose, she walked to church, while she was one of the principal supporters of the village clothing-club and such-like institutions inaugurated by the worthy rector. Essentially an ascetic person, she was looked upon with fear by all the villagers.
It is an entirely inconclusive paper, it is impossible to understand why it was written; it quotes nothing it says nothing about and was probably written in ignorance of "Kappa" or any other modern contributor to English ideas, and it occupied about six and a quarter of the large-type pages of this now vanished Independent Review.
Little children came to that eye-doctor, and they needed large-type amusement. 'That's idolatrous bad Art, he said, drawing the book towards himself. 'From the anatomy of the angels, it has been made in Germany. He opened in mechanically, and there leaped to his eyes a verse printed in red ink