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But the eyes of Barnabas were wide and bright, his lips were curved, his jaw salient his knees gripped tight, and his grasp was strong and sure upon the reins.
"It may sound presumptuous, but I think you are scarcely doing the family justice. One can see the salient characteristics of the male line in this example, but they're too strongly marked. Good qualities, such as resolution and courage, may degenerate through being developed to exaggeration at the expense of others, and after all Captain Challoner strikes me as a much finer type.
He had had a very hard time in the Salient, and in a few days he was back in hospital with influenza. The 50th Division were holding the line in front of Passchendaele Village and a little to the south. Only one brigade was in the line at a time another remaining in support around Ypres and the other back at rest about Brandhoek.
The loss of a finger, the maiming of a hand, even the mutilation of the poor girl who lost the use of both of her hands the occasional casualties for a few girls in the laundries are, though so much more salient, far less grave than the exhaustion and underpayment of the many. "This, then, is the situation in general for women workers in the commercial laundries.
At once the penalty of doubt and its proof, excuse and genesis. A salient objection to the prevailing religious ceremonial lies in the attitudes of abasement that it enforces upon the faithful. A man would be thought a slimy and knavish fellow if he approached any human judge or potentate in the manner provided for approaching the Lord God.
This I have done to the best of my abilities, and critics may say what they like, but they can not destroy this conviction. I, "Earth and Sky," Sir Charles Lyell on Uniformity in geological change. The essay appears in "Natural Selection," London, 1870. A brief summary will be sufficient to recall to the reader's mind the more salient points in this work.
This salient termination was on the continuation of the line of the right or the west face of the infantry works. This point was assigned to Maney's battery and Heiman's brigade. The line of infantry defence was what came to be called, during the war, rifle-pit a trench with the earth thrown up on the outer side.
That such are not oftener discovered comes from this: that, like life itself, he so blends into vital beauty, that there are no salient points. To use a homely simile: he is not like the barn-door fowl, that always runs out cackling when she has laid an egg; and often when she has not.
"Why, she remembers," said Miss Shott, "that I once joined in to give her a pair of blankets!" "Good gracious!" exclaimed Willy, and she was on the point of speaking her mind in regard to the salient points in the two transactions, but she refrained. The poor old thing was sick, and she must not say anything to excite her.
"I meant it as a jest," she said as she lay on a cot at the receiving hospital; but four bullets were in her body, and Charles J. Johnson, clumsy and natural lover, lay dead in an adjoining room with the fifth bullet in his brain. In this pitiful little tragedy appear two of the most salient characteristics of love; namely, madness and selfishness. Let us analyze Charles J. Johnson's condition.
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