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It all seems to the sane reader such a grotesque kind of intoxication. Yet it is as natural as the airs and graces of the singing canary, the unfurling of the peacock's fan, the held breath and hampered strut of the turkey a tendency to assume a greatness and a nobility that one does not possess, to seem impressive, tremendous, desirable.
The last recitation of the winter term was over, and the corridors were alive with girls hurrying this way and that, pinning on their hats, buttoning jackets, crowding into the elevator, unfurling umbrellas, and chattering all the time. "Hope you'll have the nicest sort of a time!" "Don't stay up too late!" "Good-bye!" "Oh, good-bye!" "Be sure to get well rested this vacation!"
"Buy linen, yarn, or anything, for these frocks are of absolute necessity nothing can be done without them. You may please tell your own people that there is a project to get arms for them. Yours. Adieu. "George Murray." From his age and infirmities, the Marquis was precluded from taking an active part in the long course of events which succeeded the unfurling of the standard at Glenfinnin.
The gathering consisted principally of the Camerons of Locheil, some six hundred strong, and they brought with them two English companies captured on the 16th, disarmed and prisoners. The Duke of Athole performed the ceremony of unfurling the banner.
It must, in the end, culminate in the unfurling of the banner of the Most Great Peace, in the Golden Age of the Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh. Might not a still closer parallel be drawn between the community singled out for the execution of this world-embracing Plan, in its relation to its sister communities, and the nation of which it forms a part, in its relation to its sister nations?
Any unfurling of the flag would be useless, and worse than useless, unless it heralded victory sure and complete Damaris realized this. So she kept a brave front, although her pulse quickened and she had a bad little empty feeling around her heart.
"Mademoiselle Helen you consider very beautiful?" murmured the Princess, unfurling her fan and waving it indolently to and fro. "No, not beautiful," answered the Doctor quickly. "But very pretty, sweet and lovable and good." "Ah then, of course some one will break her heart!" said the Princess calmly. "That is what always happens to good women."
She was so far from accompanying the Prince's army, that she went off with the rest of the spectators as soon as the army marched; neither did she ever follow the camp, nor ever was with the Prince in private, except when he was in Edinburgh." Soon after the unfurling of the standard, we find the Marquis of Tullibardine writing to Mrs.
No field-preacher surely ever carried his irreverent familiarity so far as to bid the Supreme Being stop and think on the importance of the interests which are under His care. The grotesque indecency of such an address throws into shade the subordinate absurdities of the passage, the unfurling of whirlwinds, the unrolling of thunder, and the upheaving of worlds.
By now we should have been together out of reach of this cursed telegram, and far away!" Myra slowly lifted her eyes and looked at him. He, blinded by pain and passion, failed to mark the look, or he might have taken warning. As it was, he rushed on, headlong. Myra, very white, with eyelids lowered, leaned against the mantelpiece; slowly furling and unfurling the ivory fan.
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