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"Her earlier phase?" "The time before she had made herself when she lived unconscious of her powers. A young man from Utica, say. They usually have to wait; he's probably in a store. It's a long engagement." Count Otto somehow preferred to understand as little as possible. "Do you mean a betrothal to take effect?" "I don't mean anything German and moonstruck.
So also, we call a lunatic a man beside himself, which most distinctly expresses the two distinct bodies his mind now animates. There are, moreover, many other analogous expressions, as 'moonstruck, 'deranged, 'extravagant, and some others, which, altogether, form a mass of concurring testimony that it is impossible to resist."
Do you not wish with me you could stand in the window with Raffaelle to see the earth as it was then? No doubt the good folks of Urbino laughed at him often for a little moonstruck dreamer, so many hours did he stand looking, looking, only looking, as eyes have a right to do that see well and not altogether as others see.
The cause of this inconstancy has not escaped even the philosophers. The Whig and the Tory, rival lovers of Luna, moonstruck ravers, woo her with honeyed words and dulcet promises, and she inclines her coquettish ear most of the month she is all ear to the highest bidder.
Smith, I must really denounce you as a Communist. Lord Vieuxbois, shall we join the ladies? In the drawing-room, poor Lancelot, after rejecting overtures of fraternity from several young ladies, set himself steadily again against the wall to sulk and watch Argemone. But this time she spied in a few minutes his melancholy, moonstruck face, swam up to him, and said something kind and commonplace.
Did you want me to stand here all night, while you skulked moonstruck under a tree? Or did you look for me to call you by name? did you expect me to shout out, 'Capt. Allan Brewster " "Thankful, hush!" "Capt. Allan Brewster of the Connecticut Contingent," continued the girl, with an affected raising of a low, pathetic voice that was, however, inaudible beyond the tree. "Capt.
"He might get moonstruck," said Mitchell, "and I don't want that pup to be a genius." The pup seemed perfectly satisfied with this new arrangement. "Have a smoke," said Mitchell. "You see," he added, with a sly grin, "I've got to make up the yarn as I go along, and it's hard work.
There's nothing in those old stories." "I suppose not," said Bessie, and sighed. "But in a place like this it doesn't seem half so hard to believe that it's possible, somehow. It looks like just the sort of place for romance and adventure. But oh, well, I guess I'm just moonstruck. Dolly, look at that!"
"He looks moonstruck!" cried that spoilt ten years old damsel, Joan of Acre, clasping her hands with mischievous fun. "Oh! has he seen the Queen of the Dew-drops?" "What dost thou know of the Queen of the Dew-drops, my Lady Malapert?" said King Edward, marking the red flush that mounted to the very brow of the downright young knight.
I shouldn't like to marry a Revercomb, when it comes to that." "Shouldn't you?" she asked and laughed merrily. "They say down at Bottoms," he went on, "that she's gone moonstruck about Mr. Jonathan, an' young Adam Doolittle swears he saw them walkin' together on the other side of old orchard hill." "I thought she was too sensible a girl for that." "They're none of 'em too sensible.
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