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He beat at the wings of the bonnet, until they bent in under his blows. Finally, he hurled the starting-handle at the wind-screen and smashed it. The starting-handle rattled over the bonnet and fell to the ground.... The paroxysm was over. Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity a rather sheepish sanity.
The architectural remains of the older Rome were ruthlessly destroyed in the years before the Renaissance and put to menial use as mere building material. They had reverted to the condition and value of crude stone, because no one perceived their higher values.
She might be any one of a dozen definable types, or she might more disconcertingly to her companion and more perilously to herself be a shifting and uncrystallized mixture of them all. Her talk, as usual, had promptly reverted to the stage.
He reverted to the affair with much feeling, and from his actions and remarks, we could plainly see that his sympathies had been, perhaps, too greatly enlisted in behalf of his unfortunate countrywoman, and that his better judgment had been overcome by giving way to the urgent advice of others.
Their father had so willed it that if the fifth Duke died without male heirs the London property was to pass to his daughters. Lady Ossington had no children and her rich dowry passed to her sister, who thereby had a double portion. Ossington Hall, after having been for so many years the home of a Duke's daughter, reverted to the Denison family.
I could not carry out my arrangement with the owner of the property and he released me. Where should we go next to seek an abiding place? And in my mind was the thought, how long will we be able to remain there when we find it. My thoughts reverted to those days of 1876 on the little farm. "Let us try farming again," said I, and try it we did.
At first, when his wife reverted to her original savagery, Almayer, now and again, had sought refuge from her there; but after their child began to speak, to know him, he became braver, for he found courage and consolation in his unreasoning and fierce affection for his daughter in the impenetrable mantle of selfishness he wrapped round both their lives: round himself, and that young life that was also his.
"Some high-minded Caracunan patriot, I suppose." "Why?" "Well, I suspect that it was a mistake. From a distance and inside a window, she might easily have been taken for some one else." Carroll's mind reverted to his companion's ready revolver. "Yourself, for instance?" he suggested. "Why, yes." "Who was she?" There was left in the Southerner's manner no trace of the cross- examiner.
When withdrawn, it was but for an instant, and they soon again reverted to the spot. He had certainly acquired a degree of boldness, which, in this respect, he had not before possessed. I keenly analyzed his looks without provoking his attention. It was not possible for me to mistake the unreserved admiration that his glance expressed.
Deliver up your savior. Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. A convict was his benefactor! But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that right.
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