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Apparently nothing could disturb its equilibrium or shatter its mechanism.
To see, to know, to understand, even though the seeing blind, though the knowledge sadden, though the understanding shatter the dearest hopes, such has ever been the craving of the upward-striving mind of man.
They are a safeguard against those utopian schemes which would shatter our world and try experiments in creation out of nothing. Nevertheless, he who busies himself with ethics as science must study them critically and strive to estimate justly their true significance.
Then there come to her shadows innumerable Otto I, Federigo Barbarossa, Federigo II, poor blinded Piero della Vigna, singing his songs, and those that we have forgotten. The ruined dream of Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, the resurrection of the Latin race she has seen them all rise, and two of them she helped to shatter for ever.
I asked him what time it was so I could keep the hour straight for McDuyal, I told him, but the real reason was so I could see his hands." Walker crossed one leg over the other. "It was clever," he said, "and I hesitated to shatter it. But the question had to come. "'Where is your man? I said. "The hobo executed a little deprecatory step, with his fingers picking at his coat pockets.
Before long thousands of carriages would roll along its line with the speed of birds, to enrich the powerful, shatter the poor, spread new customs and manners, multiply crime...all this is called 'the advancement of civilization'. But Slimak knew nothing of civilization and its boons, and therefore looked upon this outcome of it as ominous.
A few months too would put an end to his trials. When his child was born Mrs. Mackenzie would take her departure. It would even be Clive's duty to separate from her then, as it now was to humour his wife in her delicate condition, and to soothe the poor soul who had had a great deal of ill-health, of misfortune, of domestic calamity to wear and shatter her.
"And listen! there is something which may soon shatter all your plans, Mr. Sefton." She pointed backward, where the purplish clouds hung over the Wilderness, whence came the low, sullen mutter, almost as faint as the distant beat of waves on a coast. The Secretary smiled deprecatingly. "After all, you are like other women, Miss Catherwood.
She meant to shatter that false face of his utterly, to blast him as with lightning . . . but the lock snapped harmlessly, for San Benavides had, indeed, borne himself gallantly in the fray. He struck at her now in a whirl of fury. She winced, but with catamount activity drew back her arm and hit him on the temple with the heavy weapon.
So curious it was that she contemplated it like an intricate weapon laid in her hand, its oddity concealing its significance. She turned the weapon over. She might be Tante's child and Tante's home might be hers; yet a child could gain its own bread, could it not? What was there to pierce and shatter in the thought that it would be well for her to gain her bread?