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The fire in the grate was on so small a scale, that, although he shivered with the wet and cold, Newton was afraid to stir it, lest it should go out altogether. From this circumstance he drew a hasty and unsatisfactory conclusion that his uncle was not very partial to spending his money.
I was going to drown some of the others, but I gave up the idea, partly because I believed that if I kept that up it would arouse attention, and perhaps sympathy with those people, and partly because it was not a large well and would not hold any more anyway. Still the story was unsatisfactory.
When night came, the lady of the house sternly and resolutely opposed my leaving it. She would not consent to free herself from a risk she took so much honest pleasure in encountering. Another day and night left us in the same uncertainty. The reports were still more unsatisfactory and contradictory.
Chinese plays are usually historical, and vary in length from a few hours to several months. The costumes are gorgeous after the Chinese ideas of splendor. No females are allowed on the stage at all, young men with falsetto voices invariably impersonating the women. The restaurants of Chinatown are a very unsatisfactory feature of the unsavory quarter.
While so unsatisfactory a condition of affairs existed in the first great military field east of the Alleghanies, the outlook was quite as unpromising both in the second between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi and in the third west of the Mississippi.
If the average of any student is found to be unsatisfactory, he is informed of the fact, and an opportunity given him either to prepare for a private examination, or quietly to withdraw from his class. The Women's and Men's Departments are entirely distinct, the one being under the supervision of the Faculty, the other of the Ladies' Board.
He asked her to tell him the Church whose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it was the Greek Church. 'The Greek, said he, gazing harder at the portrait. Presently she said: 'It was a perfect likeness. She named the famous artist who had painted it. Patrick's 'Ah' was unsatisfactory. 'We, said she, 'think it a living image of her as she was then.
"Well, Hardy what have you found out about the Watkins family? Something satisfactory, I hope!" Mr. Forbes spoke to the detective with unusual good nature. But Hardy closed the office door and advanced to the desk where the superintendent was sitting. "On the contrary, sir; I have found things very unsatisfactory," was his answer.
Whether the artist will solve the problem of uniting energy with sweetness, the Godhead with the manhood, remains to be seen. The paintings of Jesus are generally unsatisfactory; but Schoefier has approached nearer towards expressing my idea than any artist I have yet seen. The knowing ones are much divided about Schoeffer. Some say he is no painter.
Dick was right, and in another hour the ship hove to and the boat got alongside. Rhymer's downcast countenance showed that he had unsatisfactory intelligence to communicate. The commander listened to his report, but made no remark; he then desired to hear Charley's account. "We can't let the poor boy be lost without a further effort to recover him!" observed Captain Curtis.
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