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And without further delay the famous conductor of a famous orchestra came commandingly to the front of the stage, welcomed by an outburst of applause, and with the rest of the audience we became silent. But amidst all the delights of the ear which were ours that evening, the eyes of all of us would wander, from time to time, across the aisle.
"Where are your parents and friends?" "I have none. I am alone in the world." "How long have you been so dependent?" She raised her hand deprecatingly, nay commandingly, as though she had said: "No more. You have not the right to question, nor I the will to answer." He marked the look of unconquerable grief, and, understanding her gesture, made no more inquiries. Soon after, Mrs.
The fort itself was a poor construction, but it was commandingly situated on ground gently rising from the shore of the lake, and its approaches were defended by felled forest trees forming an immense abattis deemed impenetrable.
"Ladies! ..." she began impressively, "I must ... Stand up!" she suddenly called out commandingly. "When I speak, you must hear me out standing." They all exchanged glances with perplexity: such an order was a novelty in the establishment. However, the girls got up one after another, irresolutely, with eyes and mouths gasping.
He laid his hand commandingly on young Lester's shoulder, and surveyed his countenance with a dark and menacing frown. Go!" So high and lofty was Aram's manner so majestic was the sternness of his rebuke, and the dignity of his bearing, as he now waving his hand turned away, that Walter lost his self-possession and stood fixed to the spot, absorbed, and humbled from his late anger.
I looked at my grandfather: all my admiration of him was gone; and I said, almost commandingly, "Take off these chains! It is bad of you to tie this man!" The man grew calm at once, and asked imploringly to be set free; promising to be quiet and tractable if my grandfather would give him a trial.
Stannard pencilled a few hurried words to her "Luce," while Lilian, with a world of rapture, thanksgiving and rejoicing in her heart, was striving to regain self-control, and avoid her mother's eye, a thing she never before had done, nor would she now be doing but for that splendid, knightly, heroic, self-poised, soldierly fellow, standing so commandingly, gracefully there, conferring one minute with her soldier father, and the next helping Mrs.
The unhappy Mr. Napier was actually reduced to append a notice to the July number regretting that "this powerful speech, which, as we are well informed, produced an impression on those who heard it not likely to be forgotten, or to remain barren of effects, should have reached us at a moment when it was no longer possible for us to notice its contents at any length.... On the eve of a general election to the first Parliament of a new reign, we could have wished to be able to contribute our aid towards the diffusion of the facts and arguments here so strikingly and commandingly stated and enforced, among those who are about to exercise the elective franchise.... We trust that means will be taken to give the widest possible circulation to the Corrected Report.
She, indeed, was, to the one first described what the rose, with its hardy stem, is to the lily leaning on the surrounding herbage for its support; and though less delicately fair in mere complexion, she was yet more commandingly beautiful; for there was an expression in the bright, discriminating glances of her deep hazel eyes, and in the commingling smile that played over the whole of her serene and benignant countenance, that told of intellects that could act independently, as well as of a heart that glowed with the kindly affections.
He read the lines written upon it and tore it into tiny fragments. The youngest member, who had remained an interested but silent listener to the tale of the Queen's Messenger, raised his hand commandingly. "Sir Andrew," he cried, "in justice to Lord Arthur Chetney I must ask you to be seated.
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