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They chatted in low tone together, as the night came on, their lips moving and their ears attent even though their heads were turned apart, communing as men commune who do not wish to be thought in conversation. "We shall have supper at Grand Island," said the captain, presently, "and coffee will be sent through the cars for the men. If you will escort Mrs. Cranston and Miss Loomis, Mr.
Often has Reason turned me out by night, in mid-winter, on cold snow, flinging for sustenance the gnawed bone dogs had forsaken: sternly has she vowed her stores held nothing more for me harshly denied my right to ask better things.... Then, looking up, have I seen in the sky a head amidst circling stars, of which the midmost and the brightest lent a ray sympathetic and attent.
Does he purpose to come? Will this day will the next hour bring him? or must I again assay that corroding pain of long attent that rude agony of rupture at the close, that mute, mortal wrench, which, in at once uprooting hope and doubt, shakes life; while the hand that does the violence cannot be caressed to pity, because absence interposes her barrier!
Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
This was the end of Pamfilo's song, whereto albeit it had been completely responded of all, there was none but noted the words thereof with more attent solicitude than pertained unto him, studying to divine that which, as he sang, it behoved him to keep hidden from them; and although sundry went imagining various things, nevertheless none happened upon the truth of the case.
Probably about the same, or a somewhat later hour of the succeeding evening, its echoes, collected by holy obedience, were breathed verbatim in an attent ear, at the panel of a confessional, in the hoary church of the Magi.
These too were dressed as the genie, and nymphs of the river and were the groomsmen and bridesmaids in attendance on the betrothed. The longer the procession lasted and the nearer the looked-for victim approached, the more eagerly attent were the gazing multitude. When this group of youths and maidens had gone by, there was hardly a sound to be heard in the tribune and among the crowd.
In other words, the modern tendency, with spiritually sensitive folk, is for us to go direct to the fountain-head of all theologies, Nature herself, and, prostrating ourselves before her mystery, strive to interpret it according to our individual "intimations," listening, attent, for ourselves to her oracles, and making, to use the phrase of one of the profoundest of modern Nature-seers, our own "reading of earth."
I shake myself from sleep and mount over the sloping roof, and stand there with ears attent: even as when flame catches a corn-field while south winds are furious, or the racing torrent of a mountain stream sweeps the fields, sweeps the smiling crops and labours of the oxen, and hurls the forest with it headlong; the shepherd in witless amaze hears the roar from the cliff-top.
"Those are the Green Mountains; and this is the 'Green Mountain State, and the men who fought in the Revolution under Ethan Allen were the 'Green Mountain Boys'." "But, ranged in serried order, attent on sterner noise, Stood stalwart Ethan Allen and his 'Green Mountain Boys' Two hundred patriots listening as with the ears of one, To the echo of the muskets that blazed at Lexington!" quoted Mrs.
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