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Esther's love of her race, and her noble daring of Eastern despotism for the good of her people, lifts her to a high place, though as a wife and mother we know nothing more than that she was hedged round by the iron regulations of a paganized court.
She replies that she used to see it so in her younger days. The Acadian accent is in her words. She lifts her black eyes, looks toward Carancro, and is silent. "You're thinking of the changes," says her escort. "Yass; 'tis so. Dey got twenty time' many field' like had befo'. Peop' don't raise cattl' no more; raise crop'. Dey say even dat land changin'." "How changing?" "I dunno.
In addition to the work of observing material reality, there is a creative work which lifts man up from earth and transports him into a higher world which every soul may attain, within its individual limits. Yet no one can say that man creates artistic products out of nothing.
With a long sigh, like one that lifts a weight she raised her young arms above her head, and then brought her hands down slowly upon her eyes, shutting out sight and sense. There was a murmur 'Mother! darling mother! if you were just here for one hour She gathered up the forces of the soul. 'So help me God! she said.
When he was sick and near his end, he told his servants to make him a large wooden cross, and lay it down in his chamber. When this was done, he said "Take me now and lay me on the cross, and let me die there." As he lay there dying he looked in faith to the blood of Christ, that was shed upon the cross, and said "It lifts me up: it lifts me. Jesus saves me!" and thus he died.
I challenge the earth to produce a region more beautiful, yet also more gay and debonair in natural connotation, than the one which enfolds San Francisco. For here the water presents gorgeous, plastic color, alternating blue and gold. Here Mount Tamalpais lifts its long straight slopes out of the sea and thrusts them high in the sky.
The men are smart fishermen, distinguished from the other fishermen of the Firth chiefly by their "dredging song." This old song is money to them; thus: Dredging is practically very stiff rowing for ten hours. Now both the Newhaven men and their rivals are agreed that this song lifts them through more work than untuned fishermen can manage.
"I am still so resolved!" she exclaims, but in joyous tones. "I am still so resolved!" Mohammed lifts her in his arms and carries her to the tent. "Butheita, this is my tent! I lead you into it as my wife. Butheita, may I now kiss you?" She makes no answer, but, with a loud cry, throws herself upon his breast, and kisses him passionately.
To abide in Christ is to be in right position and that is all." Much work is done on board a ship in crossing the Atlantic, yet none of this is spent in making the ship go. The sailor harnesses his vessel to the wind, he lifts his sail, lays hold of his rudder and the miracle is wrought. God creates, man utilizes.
Regardless of appearances, he would suddenly plant himself in front of me in restaurants and tramcars, in the streets or parks when I went for an airing, even in the lifts and corridors of the apartment hotel where I stopped, and stare at me intently through his monocle, caressing his mustache the while.
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