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A light snow was announcing itself in little white powderings across overcoat shoulders and in the crevices of derbys. The new brown coat enveloped her warmly enough, but she shivered as she sat, at the same time committing the paradox of unbuttoning and flinging its double-breastedness away from the beating of her very being.
As we came through the streets to-day, and I saw so many inoffensive creatures, who, like ourselves, have never done these white wretches the least injury, to see them and us driven from our homes by a mob of wretches, who can accuse us of nothing but being darker than themselves, it takes all the woman out of my bosom, and makes me feel like a " here Esther paused, and bit her lip to prevent the utterance of a fierce expression that hovered on the tip of her tongue.
But for his very low voice, his slow speaking of the words, Shefford would have thought him a white man. For Shefford there was indeed an instinct in this meeting, and he turned to face the Navajo. "Withers told me you had been educated, that you came back to the desert, that you never showed your training.... Nas Ta Bega, did you understand all I told Withers?" "Yes," replied the Indian.
The front door suddenly opened, and an old woman came out, followed by the familiar white Pomeranian. Gurov was on the point of calling to the dog, but his heart began beating violently, and in his excitement he could not remember the dog's name.
Presently the lonely figure at the desk lifted his head and gave Bob a keen, searching glance. In so doing, although the young man was unable to distinguish any particular feature, he caught a glimpse of the face. As far as he could judge, it was grave and deeply lined. He noticed, too, that the hair was grey, while over the temples it was nearly white.
The rushing of the waters over such immense precipices the dashing of the spray, which rises in a white cloud at the base of the Falls, and is felt at the distance of a quarter of a mile the many and beautiful rainbows that occasionally appear, united, form a grand and imposing coup d'oeil.
The old man was hard to terrify, anyway; and more than that, he wasn't taking any precautions he was actually avoiding them. It looked more like he was asking for a quick finish supposing there's any truth in my idea. Why, he would sit in that library window, nights, looking out into the dark, with his white shirt just a target for anybody's gun.
They piled up against it outside, covered the steps, and then the door, and then the windows, and then the roof, and at last buried it completely out of sight under the soft, white mass. And all the time the mother and her three children lay snugly covered up in their beds fast asleep, and knew nothing about it.
The Proteids, because they contain the element nitrogen and the others do not, are frequently called nitrogenous, and the other two are known as non-nitrogenous substances. The proteids, the type of which is egg albumen, or the white of egg, are found in muscle and nerve, in glands, in blood, and in nearly all the fluids of the body.
There was a struggle a loud scream a heavy fall and silence. A minute later Mrs. Gorman, attracted by the noise, burst into the room. Cora was lying on the floor, and Alan, with white face and bloody hand, was drawing the fatal weapon from her breast. Mrs. Gorman's first act was to rush to the open window, and call for the police.
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