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They paced on under the waning starlight, over the cold, lonely road, and through the dreary and deserted suburbs, a fearful and discordant pair! Coldly, obediently, impassively, as if she were walking in a dream, the spirit-broken girl moved by the side of her scarce-human leader.
Bad: thus doth it call all that is spirit-broken, and sordidly-servile constrained, blinking eyes, depressed hearts, and the false submissive style, which kisseth with broad cowardly lips. And spurious wisdom: so doth it call all the wit that slaves, and hoary-headed and weary ones affect; and especially all the cunning, spurious-witted, curious-witted foolishness of priests!
Their parched throats refused to sing in the noontide of their labor. Thick clouds of gnats followed these tormented gangs, who with dull and spirit-broken endurance suffered alike the stings of the insects and the blows of their driver.
As soon as he was seated on his back, the horse, which had appeared at first vicious, and afterwards spirit-broken, rose kingly, a spirit, a god; unfolded the splendor of his wings and soared towards heaven. Our own poet Longfellow also records an adventure of this famous steed in his Pegasus in Pound.
Their parched throats refused to sing in the noontide of their labor. Thick clouds of gnats followed these tormented gangs, who with dull and spirit-broken endurance suffered alike the stings of the insects and the blows of their driver.
Thus the two rooms had been the scene of some events quite queer, if not really strange; but the queerest that ever they presented, I guess, was 'Sieur George coming in there one day, crying like a little child, and bearing in his arms an infant a girl the lovely offspring of the drunkard whom he so detested, and poor, robbed, spirit-broken and now dead Madame.
He was not fit for such service, and his clownish master could make nothing of him But a youth stepped forth and asked leave to try him As soon as he was seated on his back the horse, which had appeared at first vicious, and afterwards spirit-broken, rose kingly, a spirit, a god, unfolded the splendor of his wings, and soared towards heaven.
You should take the risk for you must meet ruin if you do not. I cannot. I have nothing to gain!" "I dare not!-I dare not!" murmured Beaufort, quite spirit-broken. "Subornation, dishonour, exposure! and I, so respectable my character! and my son against me, too! my son, in whom I lived again! No, no; let them take all! Let them take it! Ha! ha! let them take it! Good- day to you."
"Isadora can't prod them up any more. They just won't make a showing." "I know them," Collins nodded. "They're pretty old now, and they're spirit-broken besides. Take old Sark there. He's had so many blank cartridges fired into his ears that he's stone deaf. And Selim he lost his heart with his teeth. A Portuguese fellow who was handling him for the Barnum and Bailey show did that for him.
Zis is ze last timer," well knowing that it wasn't. The poor devil had a wife and children to feed. Bevies of weary and spirit-broken chorus girls in costume were sprawling on the chairs in the lower boxes, some sleeping, some too tired to sleep, and some eating ravenously from paper bags.
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