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I don't see what there is to make me miserable, and I don't see what there is to make me glad!" Would it have cast any light either on Richard's gloom or his perplexity, had he been told that, in the place where he stood staring out on the gray, formless twilight, his mother had often sought refuge, and tasted the comfort of an assuagement of splendour.
The kernel is enveloped in a sweet pulp, under a thin green rind; and the butter produced from it, besides the advantage of its keeping the whole year without salt, is whiter, firmer, and, to my palate, of a richer flavour, than the best butter I ever tasted made from cow's milk.
She brought it all the way from the Bronx in a thermos bottle, so I had to drink it or lose a perfectly respectable old aunt. It tasted like a linoleum cocktail weouw! During the rest of the day every friend and relative I have in the world rushed in, suggested a sure cure, and then rushed out again. Peaches tried them all on me and I felt like the inside of a medicine chest.
In every epoch a word rules or illustrates the dominant spirit: citoyen in the Revolution, moustache during the Consulate, victoire under the Empire, to-day la Bourse. "To a Frenchman," says Mrs. Jameson, "the words that express things seem the things themselves, and he pronounces the words amour, grace, sensibilite, etc., with a relish in his mouth as if he tasted them, as if he possessed them.
Harsanyi looked up quickly, "'Die Lorelei, you mean? One couldn't think of anything else anywhere in the house. I thought she was possessed. But don't you think her voice is wonderful sometimes?" Harsanyi tasted his wine slowly. "My dear, I've told you before that I don't know what I think about Miss Kronborg, except that I'm glad there are not two of her.
He lay down on Vala's couch, and he felt sure that Nanna's smile filled the silence like a spell; for there are still moments when we have the transcendental faculties of the illuminated who, as the apostle says, "have tasted of the powers of the world to come" still moments when we feel that Jacob's ladder yet stands between heaven and earth, and that we can see the angels ascending and descending upon it.
And the third bird said: "If he would eat the Dragon's heart himself he would know all wisdom." But the fourth bird said: "He has tasted a drop of the Dragon's blood and he knows what we are saying." The four birds did not fly away nor cease from speaking. Instead they began to tell of a marvelous abode that was known to them.
We who love each other, shall we not remember those whom we all love?" He spoke with very great tenderness and feeling. "Ma bonne mere, thou too shalt drink this toast!" he said, taking his mother's hand, and kissing it. She returned his caress gently, and tasted the wine with her pale lips. Ethel's head bent in silence over her glass; and, as for Laura, need I say what happened to her!
But after he had got a good breakfast, and tasted well of the king's wines, he undertook to go on guard again the third night, but he would not do it for less than the half of the kingdom, he said, for it was a dangerous post, and the king had to agree, and promise him this. The remainder of the day went like the previous one.
Jacob Botcher leaned forward, and cracked his seat; but none, even those who had tasted of his hospitality, recognized that the Black Knight had entered the lists the greatest deeds of this world, and the heroes of them, coming unheralded out of the plain clay. Mr.
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