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Not that the man was altogether ugly, for he had a good enough nose and a fine double chin; but his eyes stood out from his face and were red and watery, and he winked them continually, as though they were always a-smarting. His lips were thick and purple-red, and his cheeks mottled here and there with little clots of veins.
Lord James faced about to the eastern sky, where the gray dawn was beginning to lessen the star-gemmed blackness above the watery horizon. Swiftly the faint glow brightened and became tinged with pink. The day was approaching with the suddenness of the tropical sunrise.
Pleased awhile to view The watery waste, the prospect wild and new; The now receding waters gave them space, On either side, the growing shores to trace And then returning, they contract the scene, Till small and smaller grows the walk between. Crabbe. The information of Davie Dibble, which had spread such general alarm at Monkbarns, proved to be strictly correct.
The general's orders to me were to put you under arrest, not to carve you into small pieces. Good-morning." Turning his back on the little Gascon who, always sober in his potations, was as though born intoxicated, with the sunshine of his wine-ripening country, the northman, who could drink hard on occasion, but was born sober under the watery skies of Picardy, made calmly for the door.
Long before he ceased to listen in expectancy, the murderer's dead body lay tossing in that great watery grave in which so many of the human race innocent and guilty alike lie buried. Ere long Tommy was called to renewed exertion and trial. The tide happened to be rising when the schooner struck.
She comes, majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant bark along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales. Now flitting at their length the streamers fly, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze. Wednesday, May 2nd. Steam was up at five o'clock, the wind being still fair but light.
For a moment they were buried in the swirling maelstrom, and then as the Halfmoon rose again, shaking the watery enemy from her back, the two men were disclosed Theriere half over the ship's side the mucker clinging to him with one hand, the other clutching desperately at a huge cleat upon the gunwale.
All pulled steadily, while the steersman, with a sweep of his oar, kept her head to the seas and with consummate skill and judgment avoided the most dangerous crests, until the first watery rampart was passed.
"On the watery waste, in the tempest!" "Oh I don't mean that so much; we had a beautiful voyage and there wasn't any tempest. I mean when I was living in Utica. That's a watery waste if you like, and a tempest there would have been a pleasant variety." "Your parents seemed to me so peaceful!" her associate in the other memories sighed with a vague wish to say something sympathetic.
In the afternoon a cold and watery sun making its way through the window threw a chill light on her as she drew near with some papers in her hand. It was the revealing of this light which made the Duchess look at her curiously. "You are not quite as blooming as you were, my child," she said. "About two months ago you were particularly blooming.
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