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Sopping and soaking in among the leaves that formed its pillow; oozing down into the boggy ground, as if to cover itself from human sight; forcing its way between and through the curling leaves, as if those senseless things rejected and forswore it and were coiled up in abhorrence; went a dark, dark stain that dyed the whole summer night from earth to heaven.
Water was oozing out of the clothes and dripping from the unbound hair; it had gathered already into little pools on the floor.
"I am contented," the words oozing from her white lips in the bitterness of truth. "I asked God, that night, to show me my work; and I think He has shown it to me. I do not complain. It is a great work." "Is that all?" he demanded, fiercely. "No, not all. It pleases me to feel I have a warm home, and to help keep it cheerful.
Campbell of the woollen mills invited him up to view his $25,000.00 stock 'all dressed up and nowhere to go. 'Tell me how I can pay increased wages with this stock on my hands. And echo answered 'How? Haynes could not. Then my old chief took a hand the Reverend Murdo Matheson. He is a good old scout, a Padre, you know regular fire-eater a rasping voice and grey matter oozing from his pores.
Upon this bed, a low walnut four-poster, lay the dying President; the blood oozing from the frightful wound in his head and staining the pillow. All that the medical skill of half a dozen accomplished surgeons could do had been done to prolong a life evidently ebbing from a mortal hurt. Secretary Stanton, just arrived from the bedside of Mr. Seward, asked Surgeon-General Barnes what was Mr.
I crept closer to her, but that only made me colder still, and she was wet and clammy with a dark moisture that was oozing from her side. I did not know what it was at that time, but I have learnt since. "'That was when I could hardly have been four weeks old, and from that day to this I've looked after myself: you've got to do that in this world, my dear.
Captain Settle's bravado was plainly oozing away before this polite audacity: and seeing Sir Deakin taste the punch, he pull'd off his cap in a shamefaced manner and sat down by the table with a word of thanks. "Come in, sirs come in!" call'd the old gentleman; "and follow your friend's example. 'Twill be a compliment to make me mix another bowl when this is finish'd."
He felt the death chill touch the extremities and creep onward towards the heart, the film of death veiling the eyes, the bright centres of the brain extinguished one by one like lamps, the last sweat oozing upon the skin, the powerlessness of the dying limbs, the speech thickening and wandering and failing, the heart throbbing faintly and more faintly, all but vanquished, the breath, the poor breath, the poor helpless human spirit, sobbing and sighing, gurgling and rattling in the throat.
He parts and smooths gently over her polished shoulders her dishevelled hair; he watches over her with the tenderness of a brother; he quenches and wipes away the blood oozing from her wounded breast; he kisses and kisses her flushed cheek, and bathes her Ion-like brow. He forgives all. His heart would speak if his tongue had words to represent it.
"I am none the worse," answered Roland; "and there is naught to forgive." Then the two brothers bent over from their steeds, and embraced each other; and amid much love and many hasty words of farewell, they parted. And now all the French were slain, save only Roland and the archbishop. The hero was wounded in a dozen places: he felt his life-blood oozing away.
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