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Anna at once rejected any idea of asking that lady to undertake the work. So it may be concluded that it was Anna who acted as the direct vehicle for the transmission of the literary infection to the children themselves. The logic of the matter was very simple. "It will cost us twopence each," said Pauline calculatingly, "but we can afford it; it's nearly the day for our sixpences again."
He could put out his hand and touch sand, drift, spray; yet they were a setting where something lay hidden behind that setting something watched, calculatingly, with intelligence, and a set of emotions and values he did not, could not share. "... storm coming." Thorvald paused in the buffeting of wind and spray, watching the fury of the tossing sea.
If we believe some of them we hang the man because they say he is sane. On the other hand we frequently acquit the guilty man if they say he's insane." Simmy squinted a half-closed eye, calculatingly, judicially.
Honor, without liking Vivian Standish, endured him well enough, and enjoyed his clever conversations very well; she could not guess the fierceness of the moral struggle that was taking place, as he calmly and calculatingly planned her doom.
Craft studies the world calculatingly, from without, instead of understandingly from within. Especially would it have cheapened the feline philosophies; for not simply how to know but how to circumvent the universe would have been their desire. Mankind's curiosity is disinterested; it seems purer by contrast. That is to say, made as we are, it seems purer to us.
"Indeed, Delancey, I am not at all ready to make an intimate acquaintance with the 'Pot, or 'Frying Pan," again exclaimed the lawyer fireman. Still, Hal insisted upon following, in hopes the stranger would tack about. "You have no fears?" said Hal, to his brother fireman, the merchant. "Why no," he returned, calculatingly; "that is, if the risk is not too great."
It carefully and calculatingly distributed his riches among the members of his family, overlooking no individual of it.
Hour after hour, a post at every few yards, and on every post a vulture a vulture that opened its eyes as he approached, regarded him from its own point of view that of the Eater whose life is an unending search for Meat calculatingly, and closed them again with a sigh at his remaining vigorousness.
"Since I know about you," Marcia cut me off sweetly. But she stared at me calculatingly. "H m," said she, "I beg your pardon for mistaking your N for a big, big D, Nicky darling, but you see I never heard any one call you plain, short Nick! I don't exactly see why she had to write with you in the house, either, but you needn't be nervous. I'm not going to use my cinch on you not now, anyway!
Barto paused, calculatingly, eye on victim. "The Signorina Vittoria," he resumed, "has engaged to sing on the night of the Fifteenth; has she?" A twitching of Luigi's muscles showed that he apprehended a necessary straining of his invention on another tack. "On the night of the Fifteenth, Signor Barto Rizzo? That's the night of her first appearance. Oh, yes!" "To sing a particular song?"
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