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It is harder than steel, yet brittle as glass, crumbling into fragments with the slightest inadvertence of handling or treatment; and the precision of figure requisite to secure good definition is almost beyond the power of language to convey. The quantities involved are so small as not alone to elude sight, but to confound imagination.
There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the air. I've been telling you what we said repeating the phrases we pronounced but what's the good?
I don't say it out of any disrespect to the poor man who is dead and gone quite the reverse; but I would not have such another affair on my hands for pounds." "I can easily believe you, especially when we come to consider the disagreeables of a mob." "You may say that. There's no knowing what they will or won't do, confound them!
This was too much for Ben Zoof's forbearance, and stooping down he caught up a huge stone, when to his surprise, he found that it was no heavier than a piece of petrified sponge. "Confound the brute!" he exclaimed, "I might as well throw a piece of bread at him. What accounts for its being as light as this?" Nothing daunted, however, he hurled the stone into the air.
Pache thought that the surgeons had detained them at the ambulance, where there was a scarcity of sick-bearers. That was a job that he had no great fancy for, to go around under fire and collect the wounded! And haunted by a lingering superstition of the country where he was born, he added that it was unlucky to touch a corpse; it brought death. "Shut up, confound you!" roared Lieutenant Rochas.
He thinks that he can re-ascend with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same thing. Error! Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember.
'I see you move, replied Rabirius, 'but you move nothing. To return to the saffron bag " "Confound the saffron bag!" cried Trevanion, in a rage; and then softening his look as he drew on his gloves, he turned to my mother and said, with more politeness than was natural to, or at least customary with, him, "By the way, my dear Mrs.
The wind was rapidly falling, and with it the sea, but the motion of the brig continued very heavy, a large swell having been set running by the long, fierce gale that was gone; and there being no uproar of tempest in the sky to confound the senses, I could hear a hundred harsh and melancholy groaning and straining sounds rising from the hull, with now and again a mighty blow as from some spar or lump of ice alongside, weighty enough, you would have supposed, to stave the ship.
As useful as to confound the sound that the Letters of the Alphabet stand for.
Lady Susan felt that her replies were hopelessly inadequate, but she was too genuinely taken aback by the news to think of anything to say. "I said so, didn't I?" crustily. "I suppose I shall have to let him marry her in the end. She's all right, of course, as regards family. But a bit of a swear-stick melt in a storm, probably. Confound the boy!" irritably.
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