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One could stretch himself at full length on his back, with his arms on his breast, and all of his body above a line drawn from the corner of his jaw past the middle of his side, the middle of his leg and through his ancle bone, would remain out of water. He could lift his head clear out, if he chose.
Don't struggle; don't move; above all, don't try and lift your head, and don't mind if a little water gets in your mouth. Now!" For a moment Ruthven felt himself under water, and had to make a great effort to restrain himself from struggling to come to the surface. Then he felt himself lying on his back in the water, supported by Frank.
Behind the law is the Lawgiver. When we do wrong, we not only blunder, we not only go aside from the right line, but also we lift up ourselves against our Sovereign King, and we say, 'Who is the Lord that we should serve Him? Our tongues are our own. Who is Lord over us?
"Oh no, sir! it is enough to rob you of them at all without me going and taking the pick of them." "Well! will you consent to pen the flocks and then lift one hurdle and take them as they come out, so many from each lot?" "That I consent to, sir, and remain your debtor for life." "I can't see it; I set my life a great deal higher than sheepskin." Mr.
I hold it up as a wall between you and the heathen abomination which you hail with joy in your blindness. "Ye are accursed and apostate. Lift up your hearts, and look at Him who died on the cross to save you. Verily He will not let him perish who believeth in Him; but you! where is your faith?
At last he spoke in his even, unchanging tone: "Well, I guess you'll have to climb into that feed box. Step back and lift the lid." "Why, you don't mean " "Step back!" The girl felt a cry of warning arising to her lips as she gazed at this sentry. She noted every detail of his facial expression.
They wouldn't like it, but he couldn't help that. Perhaps he would be able to persuade them to go almost at once. He would make it worth their while. He was just going to lift the latch of the gate when the front door opened and shut, and Jean Jardine came down the flagged path. She stopped at the gate and looked at Peter Reid. "Were you by any chance coming in?" she asked. "Yes," said Mr.
He's been running free for two years, and not a thing against him wiped out all his indictments with good time like an honest thief, and now very likely he's been potted by some large prosperous householder as he was trying to lift a bit of silver; and these country houses never have anything worth risking your life for!
She would be the mistress, the wife, the obedient slave of Daubrecq, of that monster with the appearance and the ways of a wild beast, that unspeakable person of whom Lupin could not think without revulsion and disgust. Sitting down beside her, gently, with gestures of pity, he made her lift her head and, with his eyes on hers, said: "Listen to me.
Then the eunuch, putting his hands together, said, "If security be granted to my life, then I will be so bold as to address your highness." She answered, "Speak; your life is secure." The eunuch said, "Your highness is by nature a judge of merit; for God's sake lift up the screen from between you, and recognise him, and take pity on his lamentable condition. Ingratitude is not proper.
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