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And thus the work proceeds; the two tackles hoisting and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by way of assuaging the general friction. The Blanket I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale.
Then they knew. But he delayed only a minute or so in answering. "Why," said he, "that was Jeff's room when he lived at home." "Then," said Anne, in her assuaging voice, "he must have it again." "Yes," said the colonel. "I think you'd better plan it that way."
"Well, perhaps I did think I saw something of the sort," Richard answered audaciously, yet very gently. Helen continued to look at him, and as she did so her cheek rounded, her mouth grew soft, the vertical line faded out from her forehead. "You are very assuaging, Cousin Richard," she said, and she too laughed softly.
That is to say, he lived there whenever the state of the weather or the time of year stranded him in dry misery. Those who have never come across a man of this description might suppose that he was happy and content at home with his wife and growing family, assuaging the brine in the delightful manner commended by Hero to Leander. But, alas! it was not so at all.
While assuaging their hunger the men had exchanged many allusive remarks regarding the Demon's bad ending, how nearly he had thrown the race away; and the meal being now over, and there being nothing to do but to sit and talk, Mr. Leopold, encouraged by William, entered on an elaborate and technical account of the race.
It was extraordinary: they positively brought home to her that to feel about them in any of the immediate, inevitable, assuaging ways, the ways usually open to innocence outraged and generosity betrayed, would have been to give them up, and that giving them up was, marvellously, not to be thought of.
In the revolution of the lunar year, the Ramadan coincides, by turns, with the winter cold and the summer heat; and the patient martyr, without assuaging his thirst with a drop of water, must expect the close of a tedious and sultry day.
The presence of Antoinette who honestly believed all Dolores had said concerning the state of her heart and the purely sisterly affection she felt for her adopted brother and the timid, shrinking love of the young girl also aided not a little in assuaging his grief.
He found him assuaging the impassioned grief of Edwin, and striving to moderate the vehement wrath of the faithful Murray, "Pour not out the energy of your soul upon these worthless men!" said he; "leave them to the fates they seek the fates they have incurred by the innocent blood shed this day!
She knew that she never quite understood, had never quite fathomed, his nature. Gentle voices, assuaging hands, and sweet charities were about the stricken ones; and pious hands, with all Christian observances, ministered to their beautiful dead.
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