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Her hollow-cheeked pallor remained unstained, but her thin lips were set and her hard eyes were harder. She played with determined nonchalance and an extraordinarily facile rapidity, and Miriam's uneasiness changed insensibly to the conviction that these girls were learning in Germany not to be ashamed of "playing with expression." All the things she had heard Mr.

Who knows what work may be in store, for which this fiery trial may be meant to prepare you? The head was raised, and the eyes brightened with something like hope in their fixed interrogative glance. 'Even as things are now, who knows what good may be done by the presence of a man educated, religious, unstained by crime, yet in the same case as those around him?

Dorn saw only low down, the gray arms reaching with bright, unstained blade. His own bloody bayonet clashed against it, locked, and felt the helplessness of the arms that wielded it. An instant of pause a heaving, breathless instinct of impending exhaustion a moment when the petrific mace of primitive man stayed at the return of the human then with bloody foam on his lips Dorn spent his madness.

Sir, under a Constitution unstained by the word slave, we have a law magnifying slave property above all other property in the nation a law giving it guarantees that no other property could possibly obtain. Sir, the partiality of this law is so great, that it stands opposed to a Constitution that guarantees equal justice and protection to all.

We also presume it will help the sale and promote his chance of the poet-laureateship. After the dedication comes the "Proeme" of eight couplets, occupying a separate page, faced and backed with virgin paper. The sovereign voice spake, once more, in mine ear: "Write, now, a song unstained by any tear!" "What shall I write?" I said: the voice replied: "Write what we tell thee of the crucified!"

"A pure Christianity, unstained by blood and perjury, by hypocrisy and verbose genuflection. Can I not worship and say my prayers among the clouds?" And she pointed to the lofty ceiling and the handsome chandelier. "But Ida goes to church," said Mrs. Mackinnon. Ida Talboys was her daughter.

They are marching on ahead, and we hope to follow; and when we all meet, and the roll is called, we shall find them still cheery, I think, still unwavering, and answering to their good English names, which they carried unstained through a score of fights, at what price God and a few comrades know. 19 May.

'Oh, we could not consent to turn them out of their comfortable quarters this cold night, so we insisted on their remaining, having first gone through the trifling ceremony of grounding their arms. "The greeting between the young soldiers and their more peaceful relations could not have been more cordial if their hands had been unstained with blood.

A sawmill was the largest figure of the town, and the railway station was the center. There was not an inch of painted board in the village. Everywhere the clear yellow of the pine flamed unstained by time. Lumber piles filled all the lower levels near the creek. Evidently the town had been built along logging roads, and there was something grateful and admirable in its irregular arrangement.

He liked to believe that they were free from temptations, more true in their emotions, more generous in their affections, more unerring and unstained than men. He extended to them all the reverent tenderness with which he regarded his mothers memory.