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Whoever had formerly entered, between midnight and morning, the humble frontier hamlet with its shepherd tents, wretched hovels of Nile mud, and by no means handsome farms and dwellings, would scarcely have recognized it now. Even the one noticeable building in the place besides the stately temple of the sungod Turn the large fortified store-house, presented at this hour an unfamiliar aspect.
Then having posted his spy for Drudge was nothing else Jennings hurried back to town. That same evening he sent a wire to Cuthbert to the address given by the servant, asking him to come up to town next morning. At eleven Jennings presented himself and found Cuthbert waiting for him, rather surprised and agitated.
If this be a fact, then why can you not produce a similar effect by rapid breathing for a minute, more or less, by which a larger quantity of oxygen is presented in the lungs for absorption by the blood?"
Is it possible, by studying the habits of animals, to discover some of those elementary springs of action whose knowledge would enable us to dive more deeply into our own natures? Fabre has presented us to his Sphex, the "infallible paralyser."
At another stockaded gate of the General Fuel Company he presented his letter, addressed to a person named O'Callahan, who turned out also to be a saloon-keeper. The guard did not even open the letter, but passed Hal in at sight of it, and he sought out his man and applied for work.
For every person who has observed the operation of the law of association in his own mind and in the minds of others knows that whatever is constantly presented to the imagination in connection with what is attractive will itself become attractive.
There was no one there of the Lady Mary's household, because it was not seemly that she should be where her suitor was before he had been presented to her.
We shall be exposed to the fire of musketry for about half a mile, and the quicker we make this distance, the less the danger to the men," said the commander, when the engineer presented himself. "We will not get under way till you have all the steam you need to give the steamer her best speed."
On our left was the Loire, and on our right a large rivulet, whose crystal waters every where reflected the bright beams of the sun. The birds, with their songs, celebrated the beauty of the day, whilst the dews, in the form of pearls, quivering fell from the tender boughs, fanned by the zephyrs. A thousand picturesque objects presented themselves to our view.
I left the slate in the nex' room. My control will answer you on the slate." She withdrew between the curtains, but reappeared very soon. Bean was concentrating. "That'll do," said the Countess. "Here!" She presented him with a double slate and a moist sponge. "Wipe it clean."
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