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The lad moistened Selene's forehead with the reviving fluid, made her inhale the strong essence which the phial contained, and cried again loud and earnestly, "Wake, wake." And presently her lips parted, showing her small, white teeth, and then she slowly raised the lids which had veiled her eyes.
The workmen having expressed a wish to have the foundation-stone of the beacon laid with masonic ceremony, preparations were accordingly made. ‘The year of our Lord 1802’ was cut upon the foundation-stone, in which a hole was perforated for depositing a glass phial containing a small parchment-scroll, setting forth the intention of the building, the official constitution of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and the name of their engineer.
I could die. There was a little phial of laudanum in the medicine-cupboard that always leered at me from among the other bottles like a serpent's eye. Thrice happy thought! Who would miss such a poor imitation? Even the mere soap-vending tradesmen bid us 'beware of imitations. Dark wine of forgetfulness.... No, that was a quotation. However, here was the phial.
While Paaker was telling her that he must shortly leave for Syria, she involuntarily observed the action of this hand, which often went cautiously to his girdle as if he had something concealed there; this was the oval phial with the rest of the philter. Katuti observed it, and her cheeks flushed when it occurred to her to guess what he had there.
Attribute to anything power, and there was God, whatever His qualities, personality, or being. The little phial of laudanum was in his hand to loosen life into knowledge. Was it not his duty to eliminate himself, rather than be an unsolvable quantity in the problem of many lives? It was neither vulgar nor cowardly to pass quietly from forces making for ruin, and so avert ruin and secure happiness.
The materials are stirred and mixed together outside." "Yes. I do it in the same way myself. Have you ever helped my father in that work?" "No, certainly not. If I had helped him once, I should know the secret." Zorzi smiled. "But if you do not know the secret," said Giovanni unexpectedly, "how did you make this glass?" He held up the phial. "Why do you suppose that I made it?"
I know you always take your medicine like a little heroine when you are sick, without making any difficulty or trouble at all." Aqua saccharina was the Latin name which Delia gave to a preparation of which she kept a supply in a small phial on her table, ready to make-believe give to the dolls when they were sick.
"It's all right, M'sieur Barri," smiled Beale ruefully. "I was addressing myself oh, what a fool I've been!" He went down on his knees and examined the floor. "I want this tile, don't let anybody touch it," he said. Of course, van Heerden had stood because under his foot he had crushed the digitalis tablet he had taken from the phial, and for which he had substituted something more deadly.
Salome drew a small phial of sal volatile from her pocket and uncorked and applied it to the nose of the fainting nun, saying soothingly: "Now tell us what has overcome you, good sister." "Ah, my child! It is dreadful! It is terrible! It is horrible! It is awful!
Pulling down his turban hastily, he stepped on tiptoe to within arm's reach of her, and, looking another way, inclined over her soft vermeil mouth the phial slowly till it brimmed the neck, and dropped a drop of Paravid between the bow of those sweet lips. Still not daring to gaze on her, he said then, 'My question is of the Lily, the Lily of the Sea, and where is it, O marvel?
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