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Lace for her neck " and then a sudden idea struck her, "can you mean a necklace? Don't you know that a necklace means beads?" Fixie stared at her for a moment, growing very red. Then the redness finished up, like a thundercloud breaking into rain, by his bursting into tears, and hiding his face in Bee's lap. "I didn't know, I didn't know," he cried, "I thought it was some lace that Martha meant.
But invariably Collins won out. While every other servant in the place liked him and trusted him, the sight of his honest, red face and his ginger eyebrows was enough to make Borkins look like a thundercloud. The climax was reached one night in the autumn when the evening papers failed to appear at their appointed time. Collins confronted Borkins with the fact and got snubbed for his pains.
But there is another clause in the description of the persons addressed, 'Who walketh in darkness and hath no light. This is, no doubt, primarily a reference to the great sorrow that filled, like a gloomy thundercloud, the horizon of Jewish prophets, small and uninteresting as it seems to us, namely, the captivity of Israel and their expulsion from their land.
He runs he runs he gropes, under his black thundercloud and load of fright and agony, towards the glimmer that he must fly to those he has wronged. To her first to Josephte, his cruelly-treated daughter the hour tells him where she is!
The world is about to shake off its masters. There is dead silence. Why should the military renew the fight in the midst of the awful doubt that rests upon their souls? Ah! we will soon know the best or worst; for, far away to the west, dark, portentous as a thundercloud spread out like the wings of mighty armies moving like a Fate over the bright sky, comes on the vast array of the Demons.
The lion glowered over the lamb like a thundercloud. "He is a Virginian," said Frowenfeld. "He is an American, and no American can be honest." "You are prejudiced," exclaimed the young man. Citizen Fusilier made himself larger. "What is prejudice? I do not know." "I am an American myself," said Frowenfeld, rising up with his face burning. The citizen rose up also, but unruffled.
Every thundercloud has a rainbow lying in its depths when the sun smites upon it. Our purest and noblest joys are transformed sorrows.
The watershed between the river and Fingal's Creek is here only a high swell, and straight toward the west it is level as a floor. The air of a hot afternoon had begun to ripple in cool little waves against our faces. All the glory of the midsummer day was ending in the grandeur of a crimson sunset shaded northward by that threatening thundercloud.
You will often see the vista of a gorge-like street so choked with a seeming thundercloud that you feel sure a storm is just about to burst upon the city, until you look up at the zenith and find it smiling and serene. But Chicago is not so easily alarmed. It is accustomed to having its airs from heaven blurred by these blasts from hell.
When she saw how much she was mistaken she looked as black as a thundercloud. "Want any tin ware to-day, ma'am?" inquired Daniel, noways discomposed. "No, sir," snapped she. "Got all kinds, warranted the best in the market. Couldn't I sell you something?"
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