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In the midst of all this whirl and confusion comes a brilliant procession: it is the governor of the city and the Roman senate, driving in a great number of grand carriages, with splendid horses and servants; gold and silver shine out, and liveries which appear to be covered with fire.
Mr Bloom, breathless, caught in a whirl of wild newsboys near the offices of the Irish Catholic and Dublin Penny Journal, called: Mr Crawford! A moment! Telegraph! Racing special! What is it? Myles Crawford said, falling back a pace. A newsboy cried in Mr Bloom's face: Terrible tragedy in Rathmines! A child bit by a bellows!
Olof swerves a little to the right, and leaps off, coming down in a whirl of spray. The rock has done its part, and sent the end of the log high out of the water; Olof lands on it and goes on again, the log scraping the face of the rock as it passes. "Sticks like a leech, he does! He's done it now!" A cheer from the crowd. Straight down in midstream now.
She's really the kindest person in the world, but she's very easy-going, and apt to believe that everything will happen just as she wishes. She felt quite sure that Miss Farnborough and the staff would supply me with a whirl of gaiety. There was one lady, who said she would write to a friend " Cecil groaned deeply. "I know that friend. She comes from Sheffield.
We take our seats in the carriage, open wide beneath a sparkling sky, whirl past the palace and its ghost-like recollections, and are halfway on the road to Fossombrone in a cloud of dust and whirr of wheels before we think of looking back to greet Urbino. There is just time. The last decisive turning lies in front. We stand bareheaded to salute the grey mass of buildings ridged along the sky.
"It is difficult to follow you; but I go hobbling along after you with my thoughts, though what you say makes my head whirl round and round. Still I contrive to lay hold on some of it." Kaela's beauty had a firm hold on Alfred; it filled his soul, and held a mastery over him.
Yea, they had their alarms so frequently, and that when the nights were at longest, the weather coldest, and so consequently the season most unseasonable; that that winter was to the town of Mansoul a winter by itself. Sometimes the trumpets would sound, and sometimes the slings would whirl the stones into the town.
Jim Airth read it; took one look at his watch; then jumped headlong into a passing taxicab. "Charing Cross!" he shouted to the chauffeur. "And a sovereign if you do it in five minutes." As the flag tinged down, and the taxi glided swiftly forward into the whirl of traffic, Jim Airth unfolded the telegram and read it again. It had been handed in at Shenstone at 2.15. Come to me at once. Myra.
Into this gayety Eugene Graham eagerly plunged; night after night was spent in one continued whirl; day by day he wandered further astray, and ere long his visits to Beulah ceased entirely. Antoinette thoroughly understood the game she had to play, and easily and rapidly he fell into the snare.
He thought: "Their movement is only a small swirl in an immense Vortex. It may suck them all down. But it will clear the air. They will have helped to clear it." He thought of himself going on, free from the whirl of the Vortex, and of his work as enduring; standing clear and hard in the clean air.
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