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That's what I like. If there is one thing that I can't tolerate, and that I have to tolerate, it's 'attentions, especially from people who copy their deportment from Russian Archdukes." "There are Archdukes?" "Why! the air is thick with them. Why do men think that a woman is flattered by their ridiculous 'attentions? If they knew how sometimes I can scarcely keep from laughing!
Next morning, at daybreak, we took leave of our hosts, and proceeded on our journey; we had eight miles more of this thick forest to scramble through, and this part we found considerably worse than that we had traversed yesterday.
You know where he goes all the time " "Oh, Lord, yes!" Sheridan turned over in the bed, his face to the wall, leaving visible of himself only the thick grizzle of his hair. "You better go back to sleep. He runs over there every minute she'll let him, I suppose. Go back to bed. There's nothin' in it." "WHY ain't there?" she urged. "I know better there is, too! You wait and see.
This valley, like the first, was also full of rich trees, some dark and some light green, some heavy and thick in foliage, and others light, feathery, and graceful, while the beautiful blossoms on many of them threw a sort of rainbow tint over all, and gave to the valley the appearance of a garden of flowers.
So thick was the verdure that the sky could not often be seen. "I should be sorry, Almeric," said the young knight to his squire, "to traverse this route by night. Yet unless we make better use of our legs it will happen to us to have the choice either of encountering the wolves of the forest or the phantoms of the castle."
"I ain't goin' to work out-doors in any such weather as this for nobody, not if I know it, an' I've got a wife an' eight children, an' he ain't got nobody." And the man cast defiant eyes at the great store-windows, dim with thick blue sheaves of frost.
They moved up under a heavy fire of cannon and musketry, and joined Colonel Walcutt; but the crest was so narrow that they necessarily occupied the west face of the hill. The enemy, at the time being massed in great strength in the tunnel-gorge, moved a large force under cover of the ground and the thick bushes, and suddenly appeared on the right rear of this command.
The wind had grown keener moment by moment, and when they left the storm-twisted pines below, its breath had a wintry nip. The rain had ceased to fall, but the clouds still hung densely to the loftiest summits. It was a sinister yet beautiful world a world as silent as a dream, and through the short, thick grass the slender trail ran like a timid serpent.
They met only a few belated wayfarers, and pressed on across a wide open tract where the immense prairie was broken every now and then by the patches of thick woodland which make the park different to any other in the world. There Frycollin's terror became acute, particularly as he saw the five or six shadows gliding after him across the Schuyllkill bridge.
Shall we be permitted to walk hand in hand through the first thick darkness, darling?" "Don't!" I cried, choking. "You shall not die.