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He halted, faced the double line of women, mostly elderly, seated on the palm-roofed dais extending the length of that end of the ballroom. "Hel-LO!" called he. "Just the person I was looking for. How is Margaret this evening?" "As you see," replied the girl, unfurling the long fan of eagle plumes with which she had tapped him.
Religiously, all the churches of England felt the quickening power of that tremendous spiritual revival known as Methodism, under the preaching of Wesley and Whitefield. Outside her own borders three great men Clive in India, Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, Cook in Australia and the islands of the Pacific were unfurling the banner of St.
Of course every one over twenty would seem old to Marie Aimée. Probably the lady was on that exquisite frontier line, the early thirties, when the bud is already unfurling its petals, angles have softened into curves, and the significant is stirring in everything like a quickening child.
Thurwell re-read his agent's letter with a slight frown upon his forehead. "I don't know what to do here," he remarked. "What is it?" she asked absently. She was watching the flag slowly unfurling itself in the breeze, and fluttering languidly above the tree-tops. It was odd to think that a master was coming to rule there. "It's about Falcon's Nest. I wish I'd never thought of letting it!" "Why?
The unfurling of the four-fold screen was always a sure sign that Nellie was taking an infantile illness seriously. It was an indication to Edward Henry of the importance of the dog-bite in Nellie's esteem.
Midway down the column the guidon-bearer was just unfurling and shaking out its silken folds, but without raising it so as to attract the attention of possible spies.
He saw the golden dust float nearer up the slope, saw the brave flags unfurling in the breeze saw, at last, man after man emerge from the yellow cloud. As he bent to fire, the fury of the game swept over him and aroused the sleeping brute within him.
Sometimes it consists in the perception of super-physical phenomena the unfurling of a strange and wonderful land; and again it appears to be a higher power of ordinary vision, a kind of seeing to which the opacity of solids offers no impediment, or one involving spatial distances too great and too impeded for normal physical vision to be effective.
Our heavy and restful sleep was not broken till long after the sun was glinting upon us through the trees. Our first work was given to building a lodge of underbrush and making preparations for two days' stay on the lonely island, completed by unfurling the signal of the New York Canoe Club from a high stump hard by the camp-fire.
A light wind was under way from the west Delicate flakes of red and glistening white were detached from the clouds. Sails sails were unfurling in the vast floods of the skies. With flaunting banners and swelling canvas a splendid fleet reached half way to the zenith. But a more multitudinous shipping still swung at anchor low in the west, though the promise of a fair night as yet held fast.
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