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"Have you noticed that black cloud over the city?" he asked. "At first it did not strike me particularly but it looks as if there might be a big fire." Isabel, who faced him, turned her head. "There are always fires in San Francisco after an earthquake," she said, indifferently. "And about seven a day at any time. There are none on the hills, so your mother is not having a second fright.

Some very famous jewel or other thing, much talked of all over the world. some person to meet with it, and get possession of it in some unexpected manner, amid homely circumstances. To poison a person or a party of persons with the sacramental wine. A cloud in the shape of an old woman kneeling, with arms extended towards the moon.

If you were a man to express that thought, it would be to me the sentence of an agonizing death; if you did not express it, I should watch suspiciously every cloud upon your brow. Dear Savinien, I have preferred you to all else on earth. I was right to do so, for my godfather, though jealous of you, used to say to me, "Love him, my child; you will certainly belong to each other one of these days."

"that fund of truth and sense, Which though her modesty would shroud, Breaks like the sun behind the cloud." Good Taste is needful in society. There are those, who so appear, as "thoughtless of gracefulness, to be yet grace itself." This is the native endowment of some; but all may approximate toward it. Propriety is a rich ornament of female speech. Modesty is a cardinal point in good taste.

The anxieties and cares of the past years, the fear and anguish of the last few days, rolled away like a dark cloud from my troubled brain, while peace, happiness, and rest flooded my heart to overflowing.

A cloud of dust was rising from the London road and drifting off across the fields like smoke when the old ricks burn in damp weather a long, broad-sheeted mist; and in it were bits of moving gold, shreds of bright colors vaguely seen, and silvery gleams like the glitter of polished metal in the sun.

Something almost resembling pleasure appeared on the city editor's face. "He'll not get there until 8.30; too late for the evening papers. The biggest beat of the year, by George!" For a moment the glasses and the frown were lost in a cloud of smoke. Then "Go on," he commanded.

First, They allege the bowing of God’s people before the ark, the temple, the holy mountain, the altar, the bush, the cloud, the fire which came from heaven. Ans. 1. Where they have read that the people bowed before the altar of God, I know not. Bishop Lindsey indeed would prove from 2 Chron vi. 12, 13, and Mich. vi. 6, that the people bowed before the altar and the offering.

The barrier slowly rising between them was not yet cemented by lack of affection on either side, but rather by lack of belief in the other's affection. Helen imagined Thorpe's interest in her becoming daily more perfunctory. Thorpe fancied his sister cold, unreasoning, and ungrateful. As yet this was but the vague dust of a cloud.

O lady! there be many things That seem right fair above; But sure not one among them all Is half so sweet as love; Let us not pay our vows alone, But join two altars into one. Here still is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast, And the heart, and the hand, all thy own to the last. Mr.