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Dark grey was the valley everywhere, save that by the side of the water was a space of bright green-sward hedged about toward the mountain by a wall of rocks tossed up into wild shapes of spires and jagged points.
My mind is tossed with a thousand tormenting thoughts, which are lost the moment they are conceived, to make way for others. So long as my body is influenced by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold the paper, or guide a reed to write." So saying, he took out of a little desk which was near him, paper, a cane ready cut, and an inkhorn.
"Well, I guess they don't come any of that on me," said Peterson, laughing again. "How long are you going to stay with us?" The office, then, had not told him. Bannon was for a moment at a loss what to say. Luckily there was an interruption. The red-headed young man he had spoken to an hour before came in, tossed a tally board on the desk, and said that another carload of timber had come in. "Mr.
"Sir Knight, slip your lance in the ring of the castle walls but having no lance and this being no castle, well, Sir Knight in chaparejos that is to say, Sir Chaps let me inform you" here Jasper Ewold threw back his shoulders and tossed his mane of hair, his voice sinking to a serious basso profundo "yes, inform you, sir, that there is one convention, a local rule, that no stranger crosses this threshold at dinner-time without staying to dinner."
"Breakfast is served, Miss Caroline," he announced. "Has Captain Warren come from his room?" asked the young lady. "No, Miss Caroline. That is, I haven't seen him." Stephen tossed the paper on the floor and rose. "I wonder " he began. Then, with a broad grin, "A sudden thought strikes me, Sis. He has undoubtedly blown out the gas." "Steve! How can you!" "Perfectly simple. Absolutely reasonable.
"You're foolish," returned Gresham, holding his temper through the superiority which had always nettled Collaton. "You like money and I'm showing you a way to get it from Johnny Gamble." The waiter brought the drinks. Collaton paid for them, tossed off his own and rose. "I've had all of that money I want," he declared.
She pursued him with uplifted whip. Suddenly he turned, and folding his arms, defied her. She laughed aloud, and tossed him her purse. Another time she was told that a fire had destroyed a village. She hardly seemed to hear. It was winter. In the middle of the night she arose and saddled her horse with her own hands, and rode off to the sufferers, working over them for hours.
"It was something about Willy and ." The speaker did not mention any name, but winked knowingly and tossed his head toward the entrance of the house, to indicate some member of Slade's family. "I believe so." "D'ye think Willy really likes her?" Matthew shrugged his shoulders, but made no answer.
President, When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
The air was full of it, the night without was full of it, millions of voices took up the chant, and from far away, note by note, mighty organs and silver trumpets told its melody. His brain reeled. In the ocean of those unimagined harmonies it was tossed like a straw upon a swirling river, tossed and overwhelmed.
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