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A slave, a harem slave, wanted only when she smiled, was gay, and beautiful; who must weep alone and in silence, in silence, with never a sympathetic shoulder to weep upon after they sold her from her mother's side. Tied in a bag, going she knew not whither, thrown in a carriage like so much carrion, in these indignities she only wept in silence, for her lord, the man, must not be discomposed.

He and Raleigh never got on well together, and it was evident the captain was more angry than sympathetic now. "Whatever shall we do for bowlers?" said some one. "I'm awfully sorry," said Loman, wishing he was anywhere but where he was; "but how am I to help?" "Whatever induced you to sprain your wrist?" said Wren. "You might just as well have put it off till Monday."

Some gentle crisis must have arrived in the history of Hester, for in these days her heart was more sensitive and more sympathetic than ever before. The circumvolant troubles of humanity caught upon it as it it had been a thorn-bush, and hung there.

He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style. He lived much in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings. Theologian and historical writer, b. at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, studied at St. Andrews and Edin.

And when I opened her up, a few miles up river, and she began to roar; when that first head of water hit the bridge and the sticks begun to grind, I suppose I'd take up my position on the bank where I could watch real well. I'd light me a long, black cigar and murmur, sort of languid and sympathetic, 'There goes your railroad, gents!"

The courthouse and the jail, standing directly opposite each other, carried in their faces a family outline of sympathetic and sober gravity.

Not perhaps in so many words, but in some such spirit, would Chrysostom Trotter argue; and it was in some such fashion that he talked in his charmingly sympathetic way with Dorcas Mesurier, one afternoon, as she had tea with him in a study breathing on every hand the man of letters, rather than the minister of a somewhat antiquated sect.

+655+. It must be regarded as an advance in religious conceptions and religious life when natural phenomena are divided into classes and assigned each to its special deity; such a scheme brings men into more intimate and sympathetic relations with the gods.

Nobody was "massacred in his bed" as the sympathetic gazetteers fancied; nobody was killed, that I hear of, without arms, in his hand: but plenty of people perished, fierce of humor, on both sides; and from half-past five till towards eight, there was a general blaze of fiery chaos pushing out ever and anon, swallowed in the belly of Night again, such as was seldom seen in this world.

Tell me, Laurence, what was the strange sympathetic magnetism that existed between us from the very first yes, long before we talked together? I was conscious of it, if you were not a sympathy that makes it easy for me to follow you, when you talk so darkly that nobody else could." "Oh, there is such a sympathy, then?" "Of course there is, and you know it." "Perhaps.