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Occasionally their passage may be marked from afar by the flight of hungry sea-fowl hovering and flittering above them; the white plumage of the restless birds glints and flashes in the sunlight as they wheel and dip and plunge downwards, or soar upwards again with their prey.
Abner, still apparently cool, though he could with difficulty restrain himself, replied stoutly, "Nothing which I have done or intended can justify your language to me, Major Gilcrest." "Don't lie to me!" roared Gilcrest, "Don't I know what you have been about, plotting vagabond!" and he shook his cowhide riding-whip in Abner's face, causing the horse to rear and plunge.
Often did the infuriated scribes extend their hands, and make a plunge to endeavor to save their beloved offspring, but in vain; I pitied the anguish of their disappointment, but with feelings of the same commiseration as that which one feels for a malefactor on beholding his death, being at the same time fully conscious how well he has deserved it."
The lugger rushed on, made one fearful plunge, and I saw that she was sinking. I had kept my eye on the wreck of the companion-hatch. Dragging Toby with me, I sprang to it and clutched it tightly, and as the sea washed along the deck, and the sinking vessel disappeared, we found ourselves clinging to it and floating on the summit of a curling wave.
And then it seemed to plunge below the ground to be submerged by the swell of the far-spreading fields. The victoria was now rolling over the plain, leaving the Alban hills behind, whilst before it and on either hand came the expanse of meadows and stubbles.
For in writing it is as in travelling. He spatters himself and his fellow-travellers at every step. All their thoughts, and wishes, and conversation turn entirely upon the subject of their journey's end, and at every splash, and plunge, and stumble they heartily wish one another at the devil.
They saw it sink sink sink and fade, while the echo still rocketted amid the rock tops sink sink sink no larger than a spool in the purple shadows, till with a plunge it disappeared. "Whew, it would be going if one went over." The old man mowed the sweat from his forehead and drew a breath.
And then, suddenly, with no warning at all, the field will plunge forward break up, sink, grind itself to powder against these cliffs! And where will we be?" "My goodness gracious gollyation!" cried Washington White. "I wants to git out o' disher right away me an' Buttsy is ready ter go ter onct, an' no mistake!"
It made him forgive her that she could have destroyed herself could have faced that awful plunge that icy water that death-struggle for breath. He gauged the misery she must have gone through by what he knew of her sensuous love for comfort, for bien-etre.
"I know that he inveigled Count Paul to his house and slew him; either he or his brother, or both." "I have been with him for days, Wilfrid. I believe that he would do no dishonourable thing. He is related ". "He is the cousin of Count Ammiani." "Ah! would you plunge us in misery?" "How?" "Count Ammiani is my lover." She uttered it unblushingly, and with tender eyes fixed on him.
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