Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 14, 2025
Any portion of the field of consciousness that has more potentialities of emotional excitement than another may thus be roused to predominant activity; and the shifting play of interest now in one portion, now in another, deflects the currents in all sorts of zigzag ways, the mental activity running hither and thither as the sparks run in burnt-up paper.
In four generations, whose representatives are placed before us with uncommon plasticity and lifelikeness, the decaying family slowly passes across the stage. From generation to generation the robust, sober business sense is poisoned with a greater and greater infection of morbid feelings and hypersensitive nerves, until finally the vitality of the family goes out like a burnt-up candle.
The hundred miles under a burning sky seemed interminable, though they were performed as rapidly as possible. The country, which extends from the right of the Obi to the base of the spur detached from the Sayanok Mountains, is very sterile. Only a few stunted and burnt-up shrubs here and there break the monotony of the immense plain.
"Well, well, my dear," returned Martha, with a solemn shake of the head, "there an't much difference atween lighted-up an' burnt-up. It's just as I always said to your father, my dear to your grandfather I mean depend upon it, John, I used to say, that light'ouse will either be burnt up or blowed over. Ay, ay, dear me!"
Three days' camel-riding up one of the short valleys which lead towards the high table-land offered little of interest beyond arid, igneous rocks, and burnt-up, sand-covered valleys, with distorted strata on either side. Here and there, where warm volcanic streams rise out of the ground, the wilderness is converted into a luxuriant garden, in which palms, tobacco, and other green things grow.
Speak before both night and love are gone and the eye of day looks upon my sorrow and my shame; upon my blackened face; upon my burnt-up heart." A sigh, short and faint, marked an almost imperceptible pause, and then his words flowed on, without a stir, without a gesture.
The hatred and fear of man, as man, was blotted out of sight by the craving for animal food in any shape whatsoever. Here was a living trail, in the midst of a dead, burnt-up land of starvation and emptiness. What Finn's thoughts on the subject may have been I cannot say. But, of course, he had connected men with food all his life long. And now he was starving.
"Yes, in the cabin. And you?" "I've a warrant to the sheriff of Sierra." There was a pause, and the voice went on less confidently: "How long have you been here?" "Three weeks. I came here the day of the fire and took up this claim." "There was no other house here?" "There were ruins, you can see them still. It may have been a burnt-up cabin."
"Boys," he said, "I'm the biggest fool that ever came to this burnt-up wilderness; and I'm a knave because I persuaded the sweetest girl in England to join me." Oil may calm troubled waters, but it feeds flames. When he had finished and how his tongue must have ached! Ajax said quietly "Were you any good as a clerk?" Jim nodded sullenly. "I knew my business, of course.
Leaving Santiago we crossed the wide burnt-up plain on which that city stands, and in the afternoon arrived at the Maypu, one of the principal rivers in Chile. The valley, at the point where it enters the first Cordillera, is bounded on each side by lofty barren mountains; and although not broad, it is very fertile.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking