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Six times did they advance to the attack, but the task set them was impossible.
In the afternoon, while Nelly did her task at lint-picking, talking busily to Will as she worked, and interesting him in her affairs, Tony cleared a pretty spot in the grove for the burying-ground, and made ready some small bits of slate on which to write the names of those who died.
The appearance of a god in animal form even in a loathsome animal form would not derogate from his essential godhead. Where in these stories the deliverer has to deal with an animal, a kiss is the usual task prescribed.
She turned to see Mrs. Terriberry, buttoned into her steel-colored bodice and obviously flustered. "Yes?" There was a trace of wonder in her voice. At the sight of the pale face the girl upturned to her, Mrs. Terriberry's courage nearly failed her in the task to which she had nerved herself.
He bowed to her in his abrupt way, and signed to the lad to continue his task. "He understands no English," he said. "You do not object to his presence?" She replied in the negative, though in her heart she wished he had dismissed him. She could not meet his eyes before a third person. It added tenfold to her embarrassment.
I shall want to ask you a question now and then." The doctor looked at her with a kind of admiration, but thoughtfully, as if he feared she was thinking of a task too formidable for her slight constitutional resource. She returned, instinctively, to the apparent contradiction in her statements about herself. "I am not a fool, if I am ignorant.
The charge against him was made by Talbot, who plunged eagerly into his task with a manifest gusto which had been well suppressed in the previous cases.
That was no great task for the girl, now nearly grown to young womanhood, and it was company for both of them. During these walks Carlia had many questions to ask about her lessons, and Dorian was always pleased to help her. "I am such a dunce," she would say, "I wish I was as smart as you." "You must say 'were' when you wish. I were as smart as you," he corrected. "O, yes: I forgot.
Then she began to say all sorts of things about the Fairy Aurora. What was Petru to do? He listened in silence, now and then saying: "Yes, yes, it is really too bad." What else could he do? "But I will set you a task, if you are a brave champion and will perform it," said Holy Friday, when both began to be sleepy.
It is inevitably involved in the relation which a Christian man bears to the Lord. There may be degrees in the likeness, there may be differences of skill and earnestness in the artist. We have to labour like a portrait painter, slowly and tentatively approaching to the complete resemblance. It is 'a life-long task ere the lump be leavened. This likeness does not reach its completeness by a leap.
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