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He snuffed them with his dirty fingers in a vain attempt to improve their miserable light. Then, seating himself upon his counter, he lit a cheap green cigar and prepared to wait. "Damn 'em all anyway," he muttered comprehensively, and abandoned himself to watching the hands of a cheap alarm clock creeping on toward the hour of nine.
In these brief and simple, but comprehensive terms, was the crime of high treason defined. The punishment was still more briefly, simply, and comprehensively stated, for it was instant death in all cases.
'I am Silver, as I told you before; I know not what you mean with your Leah. 'But, mademoiselle, your Bible 'What is Bible? 'You have never read the Bible? 'It is a book, then. I like books, replied Silver, waving her hand comprehensively; 'I have read five, and now I have a new one. 'Do you like it, your new one? asked Waring, glancing towards his property.
Perhaps she reflected that the generation to which they belonged is not one heavily handicapped by too subtle a delicacy of feeling. Jack Meredith gave her the lead before long. "Millicent," he said, without a vestige of embarrassment, "has consented to be openly engaged now." Lady Cantourne nodded comprehensively. "I think she is very wise," she said. There was a little pause.
Vincent, "and they can't help becoming seamen; but attention is needed to make them learn their business with the guns." After graduating, my first cruise was upon what was then known as the Brazil Station; by the British called more comprehensively the Southeast Coast of America. After the war the name and limits were judiciously changed.
"Were you invited to attend this meeting by either Major Bohannan or by me?" "No, sir, I was not." "Then, why are you here?" "Why am I here? For exactly the same reason that all the rest are here, sir!" The aviator swept his arm comprehensively at the ranks of eagerly listening men. "To resume active service. To get back to duty. To live, again!
"Things can't go on much longer like this," observed F.F. comprehensively, in front of the morning's messages from the capitals of the world. "Still," said Mr. Prohack, "we've won the war, haven't we?" "I suppose we have," said F.F. and sighed. Mr. Prohack felt that he had no more time for preliminaries, and in order to cut them short started some ingenious but quite inexcusable lying.
Indeed, viewed comprehensively, the entire State seems to be pretty evenly divided into mountain ranges covered with nut pines and plains covered with sage now a swath of pines stretching from north to south, now a swath of sage; the one black, the other gray; one severely level, the other sweeping on complacently over ridge and valley and lofty crowning dome.
The Renaissance brought with it not only the desire to know, but to know comprehensively and in all possible directions; it brought with it temptations to the awakened Italian genius, renewed, enlarged, refined, if not strengthened by its passage through the Middle Ages, to make thought deal with the real, and to understand the scene in which men were doing such strange and wonderful things; but Giordano Bruno, Telesio, Campanella, and their fellows, were not men capable of more than short flights, though they might be daring and eager ones.
The man had gone into a rage and had sworn comprehensively. Stung by his language, his tormentors had immediately bristled at him with a great show of resenting unjust oaths. Possibly there was going to be a fight. The friend arose and went over to them, making pacific motions with his arms. "Oh, here, now, boys, what's th' use?" he said. "We'll be at th' rebs in less'n an hour.
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