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And seeing them so dispirited and marking also the many wonderful portents, that foremost of all wielders of arms, the preceptor Drona, son of Bharadwaja, said, 'Violent and hot are the winds that below, showering gravels in profusion. The sky also is overcast with a gloom of ashy hue. The clouds present the strange sight of being dry and waterless.
She was at Cousin Hetty's door now; a give-and-take of women's voices sounding within. "Here's Mrs. Crittenden back. Come on, Nelly, we better be going. There's all the work to do." Marise went in and sat down, looking at them with stony indifference, at 'Gene this time as well as at the women. The drawn sickness of his ashy face did not move her in the least now.
She was merely aware that Thérèse had retired to her room without offering to assist them. Without comment Roger renewed his efforts to resuscitate the fainting girl. Her face was ashy, her lips bluish. There was no apparent change in her condition; she continued to lie there so limp and lifeless that Roger became more and more frightened.
You will bring him back to me? I know he would come if he knew." The effect that her words, and even more her earnestness, produced was remarkable. Mrs. Lancaster stood in speechless astonishment. Mr. Rimmon for a moment turned ashy pale. Then he recovered himself. "She is quite mad," he said in a low tone to Mrs. Lancaster. "I think we had better go. She should be removed to an asylum." But Mrs.
"Just her lies!... Inventions in order to engage my interest again and make me take her with me! Ah, the old fraud!" One morning, as he was stepping out on the deck of his steamer, Toni approached him with a mysterious air, his face assuming an ashy pallor. When they reached the saloon at the stern, the mate spoke in a low voice, looking around him.
At the word "retreat" Westerling sprang to his feet, his cheeks purple, the veins of his neck and temples sculptured as he took a threatening step toward the group, which fell back before the physical rage of the man, all except the vice-chief, his mouth a thin, ashy line, who held his own. "You cowards!" Westerling thundered. "Retreat when we have five millions to their three!"
Chairs, table, and floor in that little room were subject to such rasping purifications, that if there had ever been paint on any of them, it was a thing of the far past, while an ashy whiteness and a general smell of dampness were the abiding peculiarities of the apartment.
"Help, Julian; we must carry him to the rear." Julian half expected resistance on the part of Wolfe; but no word passed his lips. They were growing ashy white.
A gasp of astonishment greeted this statement, and Angus Niel was observed to turn ashy pale. "In fact, I know that sometimes gamekeepers turn poachers themselves and make money selling what they have killed," he went on.
He had seen him pass along the crowded street, amidst the execration of the throng; and marked his quivering lip, and trembling limbs; the ashy hue upon his face, his clammy brow, the wild distraction of his eye the fear of death that swallowed up all other thoughts, and gnawed without cessation at his heart and brain.
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