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The guardian's faith in this miraculous witness to her sainthood, the gentle piety of the men and women who knelt before it, checked all expressions of incredulity. We abandoned ourselves to the genius of the place; forgot even to ask what Santa Chiara was sleeping here; and withdrew, toned to a not unpleasing melancholy.
His years for his countenance, though handsome, was deeply marked, and evinced the tokens of dissipation seemed more numerous than they really were; and though not actually past middle age, Lord Mauleverer might fairly have received the unpleasing epithet of elderly. However, his step was firm, his gait upright, and his figure was considerably more youthful than his physiognomy.
Such a pair stood prominent before them when Basil and Isabel emerged at last from the cover of the woods at the head of the island, and glanced up the broad swift stream to the point where it ran smooth before breaking into the rapids; and as a soft pastoral feature in the foreground of that magnificent landscape, they found them far from unpleasing.
He had never respected Michael Delgrado, he could acknowledge that now without the twinge of conscience that had always accompanied the unpleasing thought in the past, yet, despite the gulf already yawning wide between them, his soul revolted against the notion of laying a hand on him in anger.
The Traveller saw at once the sensation he had created: his brow lowered; and the same unpleasing smile, or rather sneer, that we have noted before, distorted his lip, as he made with affected humility his obeisance.
'It was because it is a pleasure to the old and withered to look upon young hearts like yours and to know the time will come when you will loathe each other loathe loathe ha! ha! ha! It was now Ione's turn to pray against the unpleasing prophecy. 'The gods forbid! said she. 'Yet, poor woman, thou knowest little of love, or thou wouldst know that it never changes.
The side of the house that faced the street would not, be hoped, prove unpleasing, as for the arrangement of the interior, that was to be made in accordance with his own taste and needs, and to please himself alone.
How great soever his opinions were of the prudence and virtue of Father Gasper, yet he thought fit to give him in writing some particular instructions, to help him in the conduct of that important mission. I imagine those instructions would not be unpleasing to the reader; I am sure, at least, they will not be unprofitable to missioners; and for that reason I shall make a recital of them.
Carlyon had read the service. His manner had been extremely reverent and devout, but Malcolm found his delivery unpleasing. The peculiarity in his speech was very noticeable in the reading-desk, and there was no clearness of articulation. "I am not versed in phonology," he said reluctantly, when Elizabeth asked him a little anxiously about Mr.
"At the corner of Center Street and Grand," said Steingall indifferently. He was about to add the unpleasing fact unpleasing to Lord Valletort, that is that the man on duty at the Detective Bureau would certainly refer an inquirer to him, Steingall, when the clerk reappeared.
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