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The soldier, a big young fellow with a tanned face, somewhat pale from the shock of a ripped-up forearm, answered the questions good-naturedly, though the struggle had been on so great a scale that he could only tell about his own hundred feet of trench.
In the center of the yard the riches of the bishop lie in a high heap gold and silver vases, holy chalices, together with drinking goblets, Bible cases of precious wood, together with platters of the banquet table, patines, together with bowls used for cooling the bishop's wine; good sized and ripped-up bags, from which silver and gold sous roll out; costly cloth, purple and blue, that but awaited the tailor's scissors; warm and rare furs, some black as crows, others white as doves.
The Second Mate looked at Plummer, and surely, as I have before mentioned, the poor beggar was in a state; his ripped-up shirt was fairly flapping in the breeze that came through the doorway. The Second looked; yet he said nothing. It was as though the realisation of Plummer's condition had left him without a word more to say. It was Plummer himself who finally broke the silence.
Lofty middle-class houses were already rising among ripped-up gardens and plots of vacant land, still edged with palings.
But that a serious doubt can be entertained as to the relative value of creator and critic is hardly worth denying. Consider the painters. Time and time again you read or hear the indignant denunciation of some artist whose canvas has been ripped-up in print.
Lofty middle-class houses were already rising among ripped-up gardens and plots of vacant land, still edged with palings.
The grizzly won't spoil. This will in a few hours. If there's a story here we can dig out I want it." Again and again Langdon went over the battlefield, noting the ripped-up ground, the big spots of dark-red stain, the strips of flayed skin, and the terrible wounds on the body of the dead black. For half an hour Bruce paid less attention to these things than he did to the carcass of the caribou.
But the opposition wore itself out, and the railroads replaced its ripped-up rails, and did business on its grass-grown right of way and streaks of rust. The second railroad came from Cleveland, which city was a natural distributing-point to the vast consuming territory lying along the Great Lakes.
That she went to the ripped-up window in the little room by the street door to connect her palpitating heart, through the glass, with living things beyond and outside the haunted house. That she then saw, on the wall over the gateway, the shadows of the two clever ones in conversation above.
"After all, it isn't the way we live nor the work we do that matters," she said slowly, "but the ideal we put into it. Is there any work too sordid, too prosaic, to yield a return of beauty?" "Do you think so?" he asked, and glanced down the hill to his ploughshare lying in the ripped-up field.
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