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God knows, brothers and sisters" and he looked all round the circle with an eagerly appealing gaze "God knows I never knew or dreamed of this. Anne, read." "Shall I read, Major Harper?" He was gazing out of the window with an absent air. At the sound of her voice he started, and gave some mechanical assent. Anne read the date of only twelve days back.
"He will do it," she thought, with a sense of indescribable terror, "if I don't stop him!" There is but one chance for her. The only certain way to prevent Horace from appealing to his friend was to grant what Horace wished for before his friend entered the house.
He had grudged her a good morning, but that was all, and she had scarcely seen him since then. He had been out every evening. "He said very little," she replied, "but I know he felt it very much." "How do you know?" "Well, that night when he came in " the words refused utterance. She looked up quaintly, appealing to him, desiring to be understood without further explanation. "Drunk?" said Traill.
A look of recognition came into his eye, and with it a smile that metamorphosed his homely, almost ugly face into something beyond mere beauty; a smile that transformed a somewhat commonplace personality into an appealing and compelling individuality.
'Well but what is it? repeated Sponge, appealing to Pacey, who stood as pale as ashes. 'Oh! nothing, replied he; 'quite a mistake; Mr. Spraggon misunderstood me altogether. 'Mistake! There's no mistake in the matter! exclaimed Jack, appearing again on the surface like an otter; 'you gave me the lie as plain as a pikestaff. 'Indeed! observed Mr.
The immediate successors of Genghis conducted their campaigns after a more humane fashion, and it was not until Timour revived the early Mongol massacres that their opponents felt there was no chance in appealing to the humanity of the Mongols.
But he presents us with a climax of absurdity in appealing lastly to the population of Surrey as quite rural compared with that of the twelve towns having less than 5000 inhabitants in their respective jurisdictions, such as Saffron-Walden, Monmouth, etc.
She was certainly the most beautiful creature he had ever seen, and there was something in her treatment of him, the subtle flattery of her half appealing confidence, which went to his head like wine. The door closed and he was left alone. He listened to their departing footsteps. Then he looked around him, for the first time forming some idea of his surroundings.
The impulse to worship fire still lingers within us and though we have better creeds than that of Zoroaster and truer spiritual ideals than the Parsees we can have no more appealing symbol of the purely spiritual than flame. Phlogiston might well be another word for soul and we are unkind to the old philosophers to take them too literally.
Appealing to the Gentiles, Philo declared that "God has special regard for the proselyte, who is in the class of the weak and humble together with the widow and orphan ; for he may be alienated from his kindred when he is converted to the honor of the one true God, and abandons idolatrous, polytheistic worship, but God is all the more his advocate and helper."
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