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The bright color dyed her cheeks again as she spoke, but Irene did not observe it, for delighted to make up for her evil doings by performing some little service she ran to fetch the water-jar; while Klea filled and emptied her wooden bowl she said, gracefully lifting a small foot, to show to her sister: "Look, the cut is almost healed and I can wear my sandal again.
O son of Pritha, the sacred fires do not receive such gratification from libations of clarified butter, from offerings of flowers and sandal and other perfumed pastes as from the entertainment of guests. Therefore, do thou strive to entertain guests, O son of Pandu! A person, without doubt, rescueth himself by the gift of a Kapila cow.
After having devoted a few days to visiting and studying the amazing ruins of Thebes, gigantic remains of a mighty world, they had crossed the river on a sandal, a light native boat, and were proceeding towards the barren region which contains within its depths, far down mysterious hypogea, the former inhabitants of the palaces on the other bank.
The Priest was in his cell, with his hair clothes to his skin, bare-legged, with a sandal! only on, and his little bed without sheets, and no feather bed; but yet, I thought, soft enough. His cord about his middle; but in so good company, living with ease, I thought it a very good life. A pretty library they have.
She had replaced her yachting skirt by a blue check sarong embroidered with threads of gold. Mr. Travers' eyes travelling slowly down attached themselves to the gleaming instep of an agitated foot from which hung a light leather sandal. "I had no clothes with me but what I stood in," said Mrs. Travers. "I found my yachting costume too heavy. It was intolerable. I was soaked in dew when I arrived.
The Pitri sacrifice of the high-souled Bhishma was then duly performed. Many libations were poured upon the sacred fire. The singers of Samans sang many Samans. Then covering the body of Ganga's son with sandal wood and black aloe and the bark wood, other fragrant fuel, and setting fire to the same, the Kurus with Dhritarashtra and others, stood on the right sight of the funeral pyre.
I believed it might even take a turn so, and a sans-culotte man be furnished at last with a two-hundred-and-fifty-acre home in Nicaragua, "'Mid sandal bowers and groves of spice, Might be a Peri's paradise"; and plantain food without sweat, and the elixir of joy called aguardiente!
Kenkenes tightened his sandal straps and continued toward the south. Ahead of him, the horizon began to glow and then an edge, a half, all of a perfect moon lifted a vast orange disk above the world. At its first appearance it was sharply cut by a tower of the city of Pithom. "Now, the God of Israel be thanked," he said to himself, "for another mile I can not cover."
"He does not admire me, Harry; so how can I admire him?" "Then there must be something wrong with him in the fundamentals; a natural-born inability to admire what is lovely and good." "You mustn't say such a thing as that, Harry. I am sure that Sophia is engaged to him." "Does father like him?" "Not much; but Julius is a Sandal, after all, and" "After me, the next heir. Exactly.
"To be sure. Is Ducie willing?" "Poor lass! She never names Steve's father. He'd no business in her life, and he very soon went out of it. Stray souls will get into families they have no business in, sometimes. They make a deal of unhappiness when they do." Sandal sat listening with a sympathetic face.
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