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"My dear pal!" retorted the journalist. "Are you living here?" "Why not?" "Why not, indeed? Where the eagles are there is the carcase." "Your misquotation is offensive." "It was so intended." "Come and have a drink." "No." "I say 'yes. You'll thank me on your bended knees afterwards. The South American gent is having the time of his life.
It is most strange that the same intellect that worded the simple and self-contained and clean-cut paragraph beginning with "How unreasonable is the belief," should in the very same lustrum discharge upon the world such a verbal chaos as the utterance concerning that plague-spot or bacilli which were gnawing at the insides of the metropolis and bringing its heart on bended knee, thus exposing to the eye the rest of the skeleton breathing slowly through a barren breast.
Charlik, sitting in a European chair, was watching the wild bustle and excitement around him in the courtyard, when his eye fell on the three messengers, who, with bent head and bended knees, were awaiting his further commands. Beckoning to a young, light-skinned woman, who stood near him, he bade her bring him three of his best pearl-shell bonito hooks.
And she bended forward from her loins and listened, but in none otherwise moved she. And my lady went on, "To-morrow I will set thee free I do swear it. With the rising o' th' morrow's sun thou shalt be free as air. Only speak to me now. Only speak to me now. Just once, Ernle just once." With one spring Mistress Marian was upon her, and had pinned her arms to her sides.
So too is the Madonna of San Zaccaria, hung in a cold, dim, dreary place, ever so much too high, but so mild and serene, and so grandly disposed and accompanied, that the proper attitude for even the most critical amateur, as he looks at it, strikes one as the bended knee. There is another noble John Bellini, one of the very few in which there is no Virgin, at San Giovanni Crisostomo a St.
Thus, when he rose in the morning, princes of the blood and the first gentlemen of France were in attendance: one to present to him his stockings, another to proffer on bended knee the royal garters, a third to perform the ceremony of handing him his wig, and so on until the toilette of his plump, not unhandsome person was complete.
As with this resolution he was hovering round the mansion, he beheld, stealing from a small door in one of the low wings of the house, a bended and decrepit form: it supported its steps upon a staff; and, as now entering the garden, it stooped by the side of a fountain to cull flowers and herbs by the light of the moon, the Moor almost started to behold a countenance which resembled that of some ghoul or vampire haunting the places of the dead.
Thirdly, in all those accurate observations of a naturalist, so well qualified for this purpose, there appears nothing but what is perfectly consistent with such a cause as had operated by slow degrees, and softened the bodies of rocks at the same time that it bended them into shapes and positions inconsistent with their original formation, and often almost diametrically opposite to it; although there appeared to our author an insurmountable difficulty in ascribing those changes to the operation of subterranean fire, according to the idea hitherto conceived of that agent.
Certainly if no one could have recognized M. Lebeau in the stately personage who had visited Louvier, still less could one who had heard of the wild feats of the roi des viveurs in his youth reconcile belief in such tales with the quiet modesty of mien which distinguished the cavalier now replying, with bended head and subdued accents, to the courteous welcome of the brilliant hostess.
When we entered we saw the duchess and the princess sitting upon the divan. The duke was in his great oak chair, and Hymbercourt and two other gentlemen were standing near by. I made obeisance to Charles on bended knee. He rose to receive Max, and, after a slight hesitation, offered his hand, saying: "You are welcome, my Lord Count."
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