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Barbara's blue eyes were sparkling now, and her sweet lips smiled. "When it's done?" she asked. "We'll move into it and be happy ever afterward, like the people in the fairy tales." "I said a little while ago that you were fifteen years younger than I am, but, upon my word, I believe it's nearer twenty."
Seeing my wry faces, old Captain Carver expostulated, with a jolly twinkle of his eye, as he absorbed the contents of a sparkling crystal beaker. "Pooh! take another glass, sir: you'll like it better and better every day. It refreshes you, sir: it fortifies you: and as for liking it gad! I remember the time when I didn't like claret. Times are altered now, ha! ha! Mrs.
"My liege," said Alice, her cheeks glowing, and her eyes sparkling for she too had her share of the hereditary temperament of her family, "this passes my patience.
John smiled. A vision rose up before his eyes of a little figure in sparkling white draperies a figure that bent appealingly towards him, while a soft childlike voice said 'I'm sorry! Will you forgive me? The tender lines round his mouth deepened and softened at the mental picture. "She is not a society siren," he said, gently "Poor little soul!
The next year he was torn between two admirations. One, the daughter of the German-born American consul at Liepzig, her name was Emily List; she was sixteen, and he described her "as a thoroughly English girl, with black sparkling eyes, black hair, and firm step; and full of intellect, and dignity, and life."
The daffodils have really left the poet with a great joy, the waves beside the daffodils are dancing, "but they outdid the sparkling waves in glee," and of course "a poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company." Had you ever thought of flowers as a jocund company? You remember they fluttered and danced in the breeze, they lifted their heads in sprightly dance.
Him as was visiting here when the war begun. 'Now that there, said Mathews, nodding his head slowly and admiringly, 'is nooz. That there is what a feller likes to hear from his old woman. You're a-doin' fine. 'The wedding, went on his wife, her eyes sparkling with the universal feminine excitement about such matters, 'is next week, and Wellington is bespoke for to pump the organ.
The bright moon floated in an atmosphere the most clear and brilliant that can be conceived, while the silvery masses of ice lay sparkling beneath it, as they floated on the calm and majestic ocean.
The troop of quaggas became suddenly invested with as much interest as if it had been a herd of elephants; and the field-cornet had started to his feet, and stood gazing upon them his eyes sparkling with pleasure and admiration.
You boys keep out. 'Tisn't your fight. And you all know I hate fighting. It may do for wild animals in a jungle." Ben's lip was swelling a little. A tooth had cut into it. But his eyes were clear and sparkling and his whole face was resolute. Perkins' attempts at freeing his hands grew more feeble. "Boys, can't you help a fellow?" "'Twas a fair thing, Perk. You may as well own up beat.
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