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I know you robed in the livery of Satan avaunt! Peace! On this steep precipice the boundaries of virtue terminate: here heaven and hell are separated. Here have heroes stumbled, here have they fallen, and left behind a name loaded with curses here, too, have heroes paused, here checked their course, and risen to immortality. To govern with a master's hand this formidable state!
Long coal-black hair, unkempt, dishevelled, fell from beneath a dark veil which had been thrown over the head; whilst the strange gleam of the eyes, and the death-like tone of the sharp-cut features, inclined him to think that it was an apparition. His hand involuntarily grasped his gun; and he exclaimed almost convulsively: "Who are you? If you are an evil spirit, avaunt!
Come now, and let us fuddle our noses till they be as red as the liquor itself, and thy spectacles shew thee two noses, before they melt with the heat of their ruby supporter. "'However this world do change and vary, Oh, let us in heart never more be sary." "Avaunt ye! in the name o' the five holy wounds!" muttered the widow, as she held up the Sathanifuge crow in his face.
I would fain hear the old snail skrike out at me, `Avaunt, Sathanas! as he surely will." Amphillis stepped back.
"And be it so," said Cedric; "and let him tear me with beak and talons, ere my tongue say one word which my heart doth not warrant. I will die a Saxon true in word, open in deed I bid thee avaunt! touch me not, stay me not! The sight of Front-de-Boeuf himself is less odious to me than thou, degraded and degenerate as thou art."
Imagine Aphrodite in goggles, clothed in dust, her fair skin red from sunburn and glistening with cold cream; horrible nightmare of a mechanical age, avaunt! "The chariots of High Olympus were never greased, they used no gasoline, the clouds we see about them are condensed zephyrs and not dust.
The demon laughed derisively. "Harry of England, advance towards me, and you advance upon your peril," he rejoined. "Avaunt, I say!" cried the king. "In the name of the blessed Trinity, and of all holy angels and saints, I strike!" And he whirled the staff round his head. But ere the weapon could descend, a flash of dazzling fire encircled the demon, amidst which he vanished.
She sprang back into the middle of the room, and, striking a serio-comic attitude, continued: "Here I am in no end of trouble for me. There is a grief preying on my vitals that would make a poet's hair stand on end should he attempt to portray it. Were there a lover around the corner, sighing like a furnace, I would say to him 'Avaunt!
Avaunt!" he cried, frantically. "O Heaven! spare me, spare me!" Evelyn was not seriously alarmed; she gazed on him with the tenderest compassion. Was this one of those moody and overwhelming paroxysms to which it had been whispered abroad that he was subject?
Woffington planted herself in the middle of the floor, and with a comical glance, setting her arms akimbo, uttered a shrill whistle. "Now you will see another angel there are two sorts of them." Pompey came in with a basket; she took it from him. "Lucifer, avaunt!" cried she, in a terrible tone, that drove him to the wall; "and wait outside the door," added she, conversationally.
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