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Updated: May 20, 2025
Yet he moved towards her with a brief articulate something on his lips, something between a laugh and a sigh, but that really was a kiss, and in point of fact promptly folded her in his arms.
Kit inspection, feet inspection, all the duties of the day and dinner were over. Most of the men returned to their billets to sleep. Some, including Doggie, wandered about the village, taking the air, and visiting the little modest cafés and talking with indifferent success, so far as the interchange of articulate ideas was concerned, with shy children.
Bronson finally managed to articulate. Joe stood speechless. How could he tell, in one brief sentence, all the whole night's happenings? for all that must be included in the explanation of what his luckless disarray meant. "Have you lost your tongue?" Mr. Bronson demanded with an appearance of impatience. "I 've I 've " "Yes, yes," his father encouraged.
Let us be moderate in all things, then, even in our references to the force of circumstances. Circumstances can unmake; but of themselves they never yet made man, nor any other form of life. The differentia of man the quality that marks him off from the other animal kinds is undoubtedly the power of articulate speech. Thereby his mind itself becomes articulate.
So that we who have only looked at a country over our shoulder, so to speak, as we went by, will have a conception of it far more memorable and articulate than a man who has lived there all his life from a child upwards, and had his impression of to-day modified by that of to-morrow, and belied by that of the day after, till at length the stable characteristics of the country are all blotted out from him behind the confusion of variable effect.
Here is the genuine esoteric gnosis, the sacred secret, which the rude and selfish wishes of the savage, the sensual rites of Babylon, “mother of harlots,” and the sublimely unselfish dreams of a “religion of humanity,” have alike had in their hearts, but had no capacity to interpret, no words to articulate.
Why had the vision of her come to him like that? She smiled then and spoke. "It is really I. I've come with a message for you." Until she spoke he could do nothing but stare as one would at an hallucinatory vision; but her voice, the first articulate syllable of it, brought him to his feet and drew him across the room to where she stood.
He gazed long in her face, with an expression which at that time she could not define, but which startled and affected her, and she put her arm round him and kissed his brow. A convulsive almost agonized sob broke from the boy's breast, and caused his slight frame to shake as with an ague, then suddenly he knelt before her, and, in accents barely articulate, murmured
For a long time he was unable to articulate or to summon assistance. Early in September he heard some persons in the wood and, having managed to summon them in a feeble voice, told them his story. They declared him to be an impostor and left him. On the evening of the same day his late master came to his assistance and removed him to Swan Inn.
She pointed the direction, and Mr. Button, bathed in cool perspiration, turned falteringly, and began to mount to the second floor. In the upper hall he addressed another nurse who approached him, basin in hand. "I'm Mr. Button," he managed to articulate. "I want to see my " Clank! The basin clattered to the floor and rolled in the direction of the stairs. Clank! Clank!
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