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"No," said Art, "let them be as strong as his, and stronger, Barney; and lose no time about it." "I had better color them," said Barney, "an' the people about the place 'll think it's cordial still." "Color the devil," replied Art; "put no colorin' on them. Do you think I'm afeard of any one, or any colors?"
He had been very hard up for a month past, as I had abundant occasion to know, and it was therefore with a feeling rather stronger than surprise, that I received the announcement of this purchase. "But you haven't fifty cents toward paying for it. And what on earth can you possibly want with a parlor organ? Can you play? can any of your family play?"
He is stronger now, but no less delicate; he loves not Nature less, but the world more. He has learned to love his fellow-men. Knut Pedersen, vagabond, wanders about the country with his tramp-companions, Grindhusen, the painter who can ditch and delve at a pinch, or Falkenberg, farm-labourer in harvest-time, and piano-tuner where pianos are.
As she bent her head above it, never taking her eyes from its wan little countenance, the look of hungry love that came to her was stronger than any look he had ever seen expressed upon a face before. Presently, as if unable to resist the impulse, she took one of the little hands, blue-white for lack of blood, and held it in her own.
I know that It can never come to you, but something else may a sort of alleviation; something that is a little stronger than resignation, and many people think that it is love. It is not love; never believe that! But it is surely sent because so many women have to go through life without that which makes life worth living." "Hush, dear!" said Dora; and Mrs. Glynde paused as if to collect herself.
Otherwise we might see that these two forces, interwoven in interest at nearly every point, are also well matched and likely to remain so. And we should see also that it is inconceivable that they will long escape the law of social evolution, stronger than ever to-day, toward organization, integration, consolidation. Messrs.
Male snipe fight together, "tugging and pushing each other with their bills in the most curious manner imaginable." 'Ornithological Biography, vol. i. p. 191. The males of many birds are larger than the females, and this no doubt is the result of the advantage gained by the larger and stronger males over their rivals during many generations.
I was just able to see the brigantine, and it seemed to me that she had a narrow escape of turning turtle." "Yes, they were too much occupied with us to be keeping a sharp lookout at the sky, and if it had been a little stronger it would have been a close case with her. Thank God that it was no worse. Can you make her out still?" "Yes, sir, I can see her plainly enough with my glasses."
On the following morning, Mr Adair and his guest met at breakfast, when that liking for each other which had begun to manifest itself on the preceding night although neither, perhaps, could say precisely whence it arose gradually waxed into a somewhat stronger feeling.
This poor woman, very old, seemed to have been left in the world expressly as a specimen of hungry misery. Blind, gouty, almost deaf, she lived alone in a garret; but a gayety, stronger than misfortune and illness, sustained her at eighty years of age, and made her still love life.
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