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It was a sight to move the most callous to behold the unloading of those poor wretches, some with a greenish pallor on their face, others suffused with the purple hue that denotes congestion; many were in a state of coma, others uttered piercing cries of anguish; some there were who, in their semi-conscious condition, yielded themselves to the arms of the attendants with a look of deepest terror in their eyes, while a few, the minute a hand was laid on them, died of the consequent shock.
Soon their silly-looking faces expressed their equivalent of blissful smiles of complete satisfaction, and Hanlon's mind was suffused with thoughts of pleasure and gratitude for his kindness. Superintendent Philander stood watching the natives feeding, and he could not help seeing how they appeared to appreciate the new food.
Is any written testimony required in behalf of charms whose magic is still potent?" A bewitching smile, which seemed like a confirmation of the haughty young conqueror's flattering words, flitted over Cleopatra's face. Octavianus noticed it. This woman indeed possessed enthralling charms, and he felt the slight flush that suffused his cheeks.
It is not rare to hear an ecstatic person recount divine visions, suffused with extraordinary light and glory.
Her lips trembled, her eyes became suffused with tears, which grew and grew, but never fell; she could not utter a word. "Well, Bertha," answered he, with a little quiver in his voice, "if you, too, wish me to go, I shall not tarry. Good-bye."
You must take more rest and exercise." Dudleigh's face was suffused with a sudden glow of delight. "It is kind of you to notice it," said he, earnestly, "but I'm sure you are mistaken. I could do far more if necessary. This is my place, and this is my truest occupation."
'Do not imagine that his persuasions undermined your Tony. I am subject to panics. 'Was it your husband? 'I had a visit from Lady Wathin. She knows him. She came as peacemaker. She managed to hint at his authority. Then came a letter from him of supplication, interpenetrated with the hint: a suffused atmosphere. Upon that; unexpected by me, my let me call him so once, forgive me! lover came.
Sophia sank upon the tombstone. To say that she was green or yellow would ill describe the ghastliness of the tint that suffused her naturally bilious countenance; still speechless, she made a frantic plunge towards the great urn that adorned the head of the grave. Mr. Landale looked up from his reading again with a quiet smile.
"It comes from exertion. Are you not making too much effort to be satirical?" "Therefore my face should be suffused with the hue of shame. You see I have changed also, and have become a cynic and a heathen from long residence in Europe." "Please be a noble savage, then." "That's not the style of heathen they develop abroad."
The level rays of the rising sun striking the white crests of the lifted waves had suffused the whole ocean with a pinkish opal color: the darker parts of each wave seemed broken into facets instead of curves, and glittered sharply.
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