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He thanked me for the ready zeal with which I had entered into his feelings, and assured me that he had no intention of proceeding beyond the outlines of the governor's portrait; but that, as a lover and an artist, he could not deny himself the gratification of portraying the matchless form and features of the woman he adored.
Perhaps the greatest deterrent, however, has been the development of a sense of responsibility for life and its uses to a Higher Power. As General Grant has put it, with the matchless simplicity of greatness: "I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel.
Nothing is left but the rough guesswork, which, if a fine name be wanted, may be called Baconian induction. The 'matchless constitution, as Bentham calls it, represents a convenient compromise, and the tendency is to attach exaggerated importance to its ostensible terms.
The distance ere another half mile had gone had diminished to four hundred yards; from four hundred it fell to three hundred, from three hundred to two hundred. The Mecklenburg was doing glorious work, but the marvelous stride of the animal in the rear was matchless.
She was an enthusiastic sportswoman, well informed on all topics of the day, assured of her position and sure of herself, equally at home in her riding tweeds and mud-splashed derby, and the trailing satin evening gowns that left her bony little shoulders bare, and were embellished by matchless diamonds or pearls.
The matchless benevolence the heart which melts at the first symptom of repentance the clemency which led him, while his wounds were yet fresh, to pardon Cencius, prostrate at his feet have also induced him to hearken to the promises of King Henry and accept his contrition." "But is it not almost folly to trust the royal hypocrite to whom Suabia pays so heavy a tribute?
After his marriage the Count soon quarrels with his wife and consoles himself by falling in love with his ward, the matchless Melliora, but the progress of his amour is interrupted by numerous unforeseen accidents. The mere suspicion of his inconstancy raises his wife's jealousy to a fever heat.
She hears in their chants and prayers those hopes and desires, and these are but the utterances of what she feels. Here they sing the matchless Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix, and in these words she finds the highest expression that human words can give of the thoughts and desires of her soul.
This was in the spring of '88, and at that time the railroad, which was being pushed onward to Reggio, whereby travellers to Sicily might be spared the agonies of a night on the fickle Mediterranean, reached no farther than Agropoli, some twenty miles beyond Pæstum; but although the trains were as yet few and slow, we accepted the half-finished road with gratitude, for it penetrated the very centre of Campanian brigandage, and made it possible for us to see the matchless temples in safety, while a few years before it was necessary for intending visitors to obtain a military escort from the Government; and military escorts are not for young architects.
I found Paquita lying down in her room having a siesta; and while she arrayed herself at my express desire in her best dress a black velvet which set off her matchless beauty better than anything else, I told her how I wished her to treat Don Hilario.
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