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Doggie, turning to a mirror, perceived that an agitated hand had disturbed the symmetry of his sleek black hair, brushed without a parting away from the forehead over his head. Hastily he smoothed down the cockatoo-like crest. "I've been talking to your father, Peggy." "Have you really?" she said with a laugh. Marmaduke summoned his courage. "He told me I might ask you to marry me," he said.
Fines of cows, goats, and fowls are brought in and presented; they are smoothed down by the offender's hands, and then applied to his face, to show there is no evil spirit lurking in the gift; then thanks are proferred for the leniency of the king in letting the presenter off so cheaply, and the pardoned man retires, full of smiles, to the ranks of the squatters.
He's now with the renegade cutthroats and hundreds of riled Indians over there in the Village of Peace." "I reckon you're right." A long silence ensued. Jonathan finished his simple repast, drank from the little spring that trickled under the stone, and, sitting down by the dog, smoothed out his long silken hair. "Lew, we're pretty good friends, ain't we?" he asked, thoughtfully.
Ellen knew better, but it amused her to think that her home was out-of-doors as well as under her father's and mother's roof. Eva passed her with her hands full of kindlings. She was going to make a fire in the parlor-stove, for Jim Tenny was coming that evening. She laid a tender hand on Ellen's head as she passed, and smoothed her hair.
There is some still in the kitchen; for if you appear before your sister in that plight " But Melissa had recognized her brother's voice, and, although Philip had smoothed his hair a little with his hands, one glance at his face showed her that his efforts had been vain. "Poor boy!" she said, when, in answer to her question as to what his news was, he had answered gloomily, "As bad as possible."
"You forget, dear lady, that you are the price of his freedom, and your place is with your husband," he said, as he drew her back into the hall and touched a lever which released the door. To Myra the clang of the door as it shut seemed like a death-knell. Don Carlos took off his cowl and flung it aside, smoothed his jet-black hair with his hands, and drew a long breath.
To make matters worse, Benjamin sent this precious order direct to Jackson without even informing his immediate superior, "Joe" Johnston, or even Lee himself. Thus discipline, the very soul of armies, was attacked from above and beneath by the man who should have been its chief upholder. Luckily for the South things were smoothed over, and Benjamin learnt something he should have known at first.
Celia, who was entering the gate, nodded and smiled brightly. He noted, however, that her face was losing its soft curves and rose tints. Celia was another of his favorites, and he knew she was having her battle with misfortune, meeting it as bravely as a young woman could. Thomas Gilpin might so easily have smoothed the way for her.
This lion is part of the precipice under the castle, and is of enormous size how large I do not know, but I saw that a man looked quite small by one of his paws. The precipice was first smoothed like a stone slab or tablet, and then this lion was carved into and out of it in high relief by Bartholdi, the same man that made the statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
Are you hurt?" he panted eagerly, as she sat up on the hard floor and with her hands smoothed back the hair from his hot, aching head. "I feel so weak and dizzy," she answered. "And I'm afraid oh, Allan, I'm afraid! But, no, I'm not hurt." "Thank God for that!" he breathed fervently. "Can you untie these infernal knots? They're almost cutting my hands off!" "Here, let me try!"
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