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Slips emblazoned with the question: Have you read "The Vital Thing"? fell from the pages of popular novels and whitened the floors of crowded street-cars.
Men and women whose hairs have whitened in Siberia have not been recalled not one thing done to lighten the awful load of anguish in his empire. It may have been unreasonable to have looked for reforms; but certainly it was not too much to expect mercy! What one man could reform Russia? Who could reform a volcano?
He spurred the horse to furious, exhausting speed, guiding him wildly around the mountain theater. Again and again they circled the grassy arena, till foam and lather whitened the broncho's flank, chest, and mouth, and his nostril burned red as living flame. When at last the animal, weary and undone, would have sobered down to a trot or walk, Van forced him anew to crazy speed.
Examining further, a large earthen pot or jar, close covered, contained a prodigious quantity of round balls of earth or clay, of various dimensions, large and small, whitened on the outside, and variously compounded, some with hair and rags, or feathers of all sorts, and strongly bound with twine: others blended with the upper section of the skulls of cats, or set round with cats' teeth and claws, or with human or dogs' teeth, and some glass beads of different colours.
Since the Swallow did not answer, Bull-Head, wishing to be cunning, crept behind her in silence, and of a sudden seized the cloak and the arm beneath it, for he feared lest she should choose death and cheat him. "Then it was that the body rolled over toward him; then it was that he saw the whitened face and the black breast beneath.
Then my company rose up and drew in the ship's sails, and stowed them in the hold of the ship, while they sat at the oars and whitened the water with their polished pine blades. But I with my sharp sword cleft in pieces a great circle of wax, and with my strong hands kneaded it. And soon the wax grew warm, for that my great might constrained it, and the beam of the lord Helios, son of Hyperion.
Accordingly, all see to their stomachs lest they come to look like a leathern bottle on two skittles." "A good custom. I regret it fell into disuse in my province. And what is the purpose of that big old trunk? It is of precious wood and seems to have seen many years." "Very many. That is the family trunk of triumph," answered Joel opening the trunk, in which the stranger saw many whitened skulls.
If this were true and not for an instant did I doubt her then not for a few hours had we lain there at the foot of the living wall in the Hall of the Cones but for the balance of that day and that night, and another day and part of still another night. "What does she say?" Drake stared anxiously into my whitened face. I told him. "Yes." Norhala spoke again.
He did not care though the glittering frost whitened his short hair, and pierced his sinewy flanks like a knife thrust; he hardly realized that the driving snow froze his eyelids together, and caked between his toes, making his feet so tender that they bled.
His blue overcoat, whitened at the seams, was still decorated with the ribbon of his cross; and the passers-by looked at the hero, doubtless some victim of the government, with curiosity and commiseration; the rosette attracted notice, and the fiercest "ultra" was jealous for the honor of the Legion.
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