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With such a picture before them, a picture faithful and true in form and coloring, how pitiful must have appeared to the wise, and thoughtful, and generous, those miserable party feuds and personal animosities which disturbed the peace of the commonwealth mere loathsome cobwebs, spun by selfishness, across a piece of gorgeous tapestry spots upon the sun of a glorious national career!
There everything reminded him of her; the scrupulous neatness of floor and walls no cobwebs hanging from the rafters, the kitchen utensils shining like mirrors. He sat down and burst into a flood of tears. For several days he did not exchange a word with his accomplice, and dared not go to market lest his worst fears should be realised.
This work, like The Scented Garden, was left unfinished. Burton had covered his Latin copy and his manuscript with pencil notes looking like cobwebs, and on one page was written "Never show half finished work to women or fools." The treatment meted to his manuscript would, if Burton had been a poet of the first order, have drawn tears from a milestone.
But once out on the moorland the bright sunshine and fresh bracing air blew away all cobwebs of discontent. 'How very pretty it is to-day! said Miss Mouse eagerly, 'I've never seen it like this the sunshine makes all the colours different, but, oh! how cold it must be in winter when it snows!
"Limpy-toes used cold water," said Aunt Squeaky. "No, it was hot water, Ma," contradicted Dot. "First he freezed me with cold water; then he boiled me in hot water," said Tiny. "I guess I can remember. Mammy put on cobwebs, Wink gave me some candy, and then I got better." "Fetch that creoline bottle, Silvy," repeated Grand-daddy sternly. "Land o' pity, who is the doctor, anyway?
She could see the glistening of dew, its beaded hoar upon cobwebs and grassy borders. There was no footstep here to disturb the silence; the dawn stole into being in a deep and breathless quietude. That same Tuesday afternoon Mark sat in the doorway of the cowshed looking at the road. It was the first period of rest and ease he had had since his arrival.
They do their work so well as to entrance, not only Faust, but all who hear their strains, The instrumental ballet is a fairy waltz, a filmy musical fabric, seemingly woven of moonbeams and dewy cobwebs, over a pedal-point on the muted violoncellos, ending with drum taps and harmonics from the harp one of the daintiest and most original orchestral effects imaginable.
Then, in the still, dark night before Christmas Day, the dear Christ-child came, to bless the tree for the children. But when he looked at it what do you suppose? it was covered with cobwebs! Everywhere the little spiders had been they had left a spider-web; and you know they had been everywhere.
Cheriton's mind and sympathies were as quick and alert as if she were still a young woman, instead of being near the rounding of the completed century. She listened with kindly interest, and her wise and tender words cleared away many of the cobwebs of anxiety that beset Margaret's sky. "Let patience have her perfect work!" she was fond of saying.
In that way he would retrieve his own past errors and in a measure redeem the misspent life of the thief. He saw Cronk smooth his brow with a shaking hand, as if to wipe away from his befuddled brain the cobwebs of indecision and time-gathered shadows. His lips, drawn awry with intensity, opened only to drone: "Pretty little Midge, I thought as how ye were dead!
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