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Now we must go, I suppose," and Nan Prince, still silent, for the pleasure of this time was almost too great, took hold of the doctor's outstretched hand, and they went slowly up the garden walk together.
Pettit's eyes looked down into my own with an expression that emphasized the words he had just uttered. His outstretched hand clasped mine warmly, his impressive greeting embarrassed me a bit, and I turned instinctively toward Dicky to see if he had noticed the young physician's extraordinarily cordial greeting.
She was safe in her room. She stood with both arms outstretched. She did not feel soiled by this dirty thing. She was triumphant. In the silhouette of a water-tank, atop the next-door apartment-house, she saw a strong tower of faith. "Now I don't have to worry about him. I don't have to make any more decisions. I know! I'm through! No one can get me just because of curiosity about sex again.
Batoche rose and advanced nearer, with arms still outstretched, as if he would clasp the Spirit of the Waterfall, and seize the token which he implored. But in this he was disappointed.
Afar off the passer-by was edified by seeing the motionless figure of the holy man with outstretched arms like a cross, projected against the sky, in his favourite attitude of prayer, or expressing his thankfulness for the many mercies of which he supposed himself to be the recipient by rapidly striking his forehead against his knees.
Smiling confidently he again approached her with outstretched arms, but she swiftly evaded him, and snatched up a pearl-handled stiletto which she had been utilizing as a paper cutter. At his grim smile of contempt she flung it down on the table and laid her hand on the call bell. He gave a shrug and dropped his arms. "That is unnecessary," he said quietly.
"I presume this tells the same story, though I can't think why it isn't directed to grandpa, or to me as the eldest son of the house," Calhoun said, handing an unopened telegram to his brother. Arthur tore it hastily open, glanced at the contents and paled to the very lips. "What is it?" cried Calhoun in alarm. "Mother!" said Arthur huskily, putting the paper into his brother's outstretched hand.
Her face was white, white as snow; her arms hung motionless. She resembled a statue. Slowly, without bending a single limb, she leaned backward and sank down on that stone.... And now Arátoff was lying beside her, outstretched like a mortuary statue, and his hands were folded like those of a corpse. But at this point the woman suddenly rose to her feet and went away.
"Too much bloomin' argument about this camp; I'm off ter bed." "So you think he'll do, Jim?" "Yes, I certainly do," Jim answered. He was sitting with his father in the smoking-room at Billabong, his long legs outstretched before the fire, and his great form half-concealed in the depths of an enormous leather armchair.
The shot had swept the deck. Fathom by fathom the English ship overhauled us. Through our port-hole we could see her deck swarming with men armed to the teeth. On her poop stood a little knot of men evidently in command, and one of these was directing the boatswain with outstretched arm.
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