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An hour's leisurely walk brought him to the first cleft in the rock. From the back of this the path ascended, with many a double, to the wooded shelf on which old Scythia's hut had once stood hidden. When he reached the spot he found nothing but charred logs, blasted trees, and ashes, as if the spot had been wasted by fire. A ray of dazzling light darted from the ashes at his feet.
Strength of will joined to self-restraint is a combination always enjoyable to the onlooker; but it is also evidence of discomfort and effort enough in the heroic character that has won the state which we contemplate with so much approval. I remember his standing once by the fire, leaning upon the mantelpiece, when a vase on the shelf toppled over in some way.
"About half an hour after that, one o' the boys dropped his slate pencil on the floor an' it broke, so he asked the teacheh for a new one. The slates 'n' pencils was kep' on a shelf over the teacheh's chair, an' he got on the chair to reach one down.
Then she went into the dining-room, where a servant was laying a cloth on a long table, took down a stack of plates from a shelf, and began to put them in their places. When breakfast was over that morning Westerfelt went back to the stable. While sitting in the office.
Anything which had been touched with purpose at or near the time of so mysterious a tragedy, and the position of this book on a shelf so high that a chair was needed to reach it proved that it had been sought and touched with purpose, held out the promise of a clue which one on so blind a trail as myself could not afford to ignore.
The colonial home did, being part of the working world. But what is the modern home? It is a nest, an eddy, a shelf, a nook. It's something apart from the world.
The very first house we stopped at and an old log one, at that I sold the lady three bottles for one dollar, one each for herself, her mother and her sister. Can't you empty the polish into something else and let me retain these?" "Certainly," she answered, and stepping to the pantry, she opened the door, when I noticed several bottles on the shelf. "Now, I'll tell you what I'll do.
Twenty years hence, when afflicted in your old age and the time will come, my good people you may take down this little phial from the shelf, and bless the hour in which you spent your shilling; for as Eusebius declares, 'Verbum personale concordat cum nominativo, which is as much as to say, the active will grow old, and suffer from pains in their limbs.
Unconsciously, for the lack of anything better to do, she watched its advance. It fell upon a tiny shelf against the wall, littered with a collection of papers and magazines; and the reflected light from the white sheets glared in her eyes.
Cardew had to admit to himself that this was a room in which the most refined young ladies in the world might sit with pleasure and profit. There was a shelf for books running round the dado, and the books therein were good of their kind and richly and handsomely bound. There were no small tables anywhere. Mr.
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