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And the master in Paris who had taught her he also had been confident and sure. Yet as she studied the uncompleted sketch before her she felt her confidence waver. It had not satisfied her while she was working on it, it seemed now hopelessly and utterly bad. With a heavy sigh she stared at it despondently, seeing in it the failure of all her hopes. Then in quick recoil courage came again.
Congress made provision for only one battleship, and therefore the Navy Department has deemed it necessary and proper to make an estimate which includes the first year's expenditure for three battleships in addition to the amount required for work on the uncompleted ships now under construction.
It was impossible for June to miss the dismay that found outlet in the fallen jaw and startled eyes. In the stranger's grin was triumphant malice. "You sure look glad to see me, Pete, and us such old friends too. Le's see, I ain't seen you since since " He stopped, as though his memory were at fault, but June sensed the hint of a threat in the uncompleted sentence.
His mind cleared. Some old, forgotten joy, wonderful as the dawn, burst into his heart, rose to fire in his eyes, flooded his whole being. A glory long eclipsed, a dream interrupted years ago, an uncompleted game of earliest youth all these rose from their hiding- place and recaptured him, soul and body. He glanced at the children.
She left her sentence uncompleted as she turned away, with a break in her voice, and stood by the open window leading out on to the verandah. As Durham glanced at her he saw her shoulders heave and her hands convulsively clasp. Through the chill of her forgetfulness the love impulse surged.
If it had made her cheeks a little pale, it had more than made up for it in the exalted tone of her voice and expression of her eyes. "You say you're happier here?" asked Elise. "Weren't you happy then, down there in New York, Ruth?" "Yes, for a while. But you see my life was like a circle uncompleted.
Among Clarke's uncompleted writings are a few brilliant chapters of a novel which promised to be as permanent a record of his ability as the well-known convict story, though of a different kind. But the author had the unlucky faculty of attending to anything rather than the work which offered him certain fame and fortune, as well as the most natural employment of his powers.
In order to prevent the escape of these Turkish forces in a northerly direction along the Tigris and the line of the projected but uncompleted part of the Bagdad railroad, the Russians had launched another attack from the north. This second army advanced to the south of the region around Lake Urumiah, a large body of water less than fifty miles east of the Turko-Persian border.
Seeing that no attack was seriously intended, the army broke once more into the line of march, and proceeded to a favourable piece of ground, near the uncompleted position which I have already described, where we passed the night under little tents made with blankets and ramrods.
Upon these two incongruous qualities Spinrobin always insists. "The deaf shall hear !" came sharply from the clergyman's lips, the sentence uncompleted, for the housekeeper cut him short. "They're out!" she cried with a loud, half-frightened jubilance; "Mr. Skale's prisoners are bursting their way about the house.