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The house was ancient and honorable. Its air of antiquity was undisturbed by the great changes which had swept the land in the ages it had stood. The masters had changed from father to son, but the house was as it had been in the beginning, and with it lived unbroken and unshifting, the traditions and beliefs of its founders.
Seconds passed, to Huldah they seemed endless, her heart, which at first had beat furiously, quieted down until it seemed scarcely to beat at all. Save for the good-night calls of the birds, and the sad mooing of a cow in a field not far away, the silence remained unbroken. "Perhaps I didn't knock loud enough," thought Huldah, "or whoever's inside may be gone to sleep."
The unbroken quiet of the happy valley which had irritated him at first, grew to be more and more a balm to his wounded spirit.
It is marvellous these men do not more frequently meet death by accident, for what with the back wheel sliding and skidding like an unbroken mule, and dodging round shell-holes as if we were playing musical chairs, and hanging round the driver's waist like a limpet to keep our balance, it was anything but a comfortable experience.
In truth, our Ministers were content with placing France and her ancient dynasty in an honourable position, in the hope that Europe would thus at last find peace; and the forty years of almost unbroken rest that followed justified their magnanimity.
Within the circle of light from a kerosene lamp a great figure sank in a heap to a ranch house floor. Against a background of unbroken white a trail of red blotches ended in the mutely pathetic figure of a prostrate dying horse a noble thoroughbred. What varied horrors seethed in the watcher's brain, crowded each other, recurred and again recurred!
"She sent it back a few months afterwards said she had no need for it," replied Peters. "I kept Phillipe on because he was a better mechanic than the other man. There was no need for two." Craven refrained from comment and relapsed into silence, which was unbroken until they reached the house.
The night-flower's incense to their God is given, And grateful mortals raise their thoughts to heaven. We trod a weary path through silent woods, Tangled and dark, unbroken by a sound Of cheerful life.
The day before had been almost a feast-day in the Ghetto everybody providing for the morrow. Esther had scarcely eaten anything. Nevertheless she was fasting, and would fast for over twenty-four hours, till the night fell. She knew not why. Her record was unbroken, and instinct resented a breach now. She had always fasted even the Henry Goldsmiths fasted, and greater than the Henry Goldsmiths!
Sir, a new world has come into being since the Constitution was adopted.... Are we to neglect and refuse the redemption of that vast wilderness which once stretched unbroken beyond the Alleghany?" In these views he proved himself one of the most far-sighted statesmen that had as yet appeared in Congress, a typical Western man of enthusiasm and boundless hope.
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