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The figures are of alabaster or marble, and there are frequently fine brasses on them which bear the inscriptions. It is interesting to remember that the effigy or reclining figure of a Crusader always has the legs crossed. A flight of black marble steps leads up to Henry VII's Chapel. Betty thought this reminded her a little of the choir of St.
The marine saluted and walked off. Mathilde had awakened. "What are you doing?" She slipped out of bed and hurried to him. "A letter," he answered. He allowed her to help him back to his pillow. Reclining again, his dizziness grew less. "I'll read it for you," she said. "No. Von Stinnes...." "It may be important." "I'll be able to read in a moment."
He had risen from the ground, and grasping his pony’s mane, was attempting to resume his seat in the saddle; but scarcely had he put his foot in the stirrup, when a sickness or dizziness seemed to overpower him: he leant forward a moment, with his head drooped on the animal’s back, and then made one more effort, which proving ineffectual, he sank back on the bank, where I left him, reposing his head on the oozy turf, and to all appearance, as calmly reclining as if he had been taking his rest on his sofa at home.
Again he lifted the uneasy figure and placed it upon the reclining chair, into which it collapsed helplessly with a nerveless huddle. A few minutes more of alternate fan and bottle resulted in the opening of the eyes and the utterance of a choking gasp. Assured now, the Sepoy rushed to the bedroom, threw aside the coverlets and possessed himself of one of the sheets.
The general, bloated, with a potato nose and prominent bumps on his forehead, hairless pate and bags under his eyes, a man of sanguine temperament, was reclining in a silk morning gown, and with a cigarette in his hand, was drinking tea from a silver saucer. "How do you do, sir?
He now stood before the two girls, silent, and evidently surprised; and it would scarce have been an unworthy subject for a picture that ivied porch that still spot Madeline's reclining and subdued form and downcast eyes the eager face of Ellinor, about to narrate the nature and cause of their intrusion and the pale Student himself, thus suddenly aroused from his solitary meditations, and converted into the protector of beauty.
She would have exchanged her reclining posture for that of the others, but her mother gently drew her down to her former position. "Eveena," said my host, "I have told our friend, what you know, that there is in this world a society, of which I am a member, whose principles are not those of our countrymen, but resemble rather those which supplied the impulses on which he acted to-day.
Charmond reclining on a sofa, and behaving generally as became a patient who was in no great hurry to lose that title. On each occasion he looked gravely at the little scratch on her arm, as if it had been a serious wound.
Ferrari raised himself slightly from his reclining position and seemed about to speak, but apparently changing his mind he remained silent his face had somewhat paled. The momentary hesitation among my guests passed quickly. All present, except Guido, broke out into a chorus of congratulations, mingled with good-humored jesting and laughter.
While their masters are employing or non-employing themselves, according to the bent of their inclination, they are cultivating the fields or watering and herding the flocks, bearing heavy burdens, carrying the luggage of their husbands to facilitate progress on the war-path; or at home rearing up children, who rarely rise up to call them blessed; or they are waiting, in submissive obedience, at the feet of their reclining lords, to be petted and caressed or cursed and kicked, as passion or caprice may dictate subjected alike to neglect, contempt, and abuse.
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