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Updated: June 9, 2025
When it came, what then? With a rush the wild terror of the Arctic sea burst upon them. It lifted the giant ice-pan weighing hundreds of tons, tilted it to a dangerous angle, then dropped from beneath it. Marian's heart stopped beating as she felt the downward rush of the avalanche of ice. The next instant she felt it crumble like an egg-shell. It had broken at the point where they lay.
Jules, horror-struck, allowed her to go without further notice. The whole world seemed to crumble beneath his feet, and above him the heavens were falling with a crash. "Monsieur is served," said his valet. The valet and the footman waited in the dining-room a quarter of an hour without seeing master or mistress. "Madame will not dine to-day," said the waiting-maid, coming in.
Set on its pebble in the open air, without any sort of shelter, the nest will have to undergo the heat of summer, which will turn each cell into a stifling furnace, followed by the autumn rains, which will slowly wear away the stonework, and by the winter frosts, which will crumble what the rains have respected.
And the sight of the old sarcophagus, with its bacchanal of satyrs and nymphs, brought back the memory that death lurks even amidst the bliss of passion, the unsatiated kisses of love. For a moment the clear song of the water sounded in Pierre's ears like a long-drawn sob, and all seemed to crumble in the terrible shadow which had fallen from the invisible.
The structure reared with tears and prayers, the structure of Mellony's happiness, seemed to crumble before her eyes. "And I was to give you this;" and from the lining of his hat the captain drew forth a folded paper. "Then you knew about it?" said Mrs. Pember, in a flash of cold wrath. "No, no, I didn't. My daughter's boy brought this to me, and I was to tell you they was married.
It was an invariable practice of Carlotta's. She would keep the lump in the coffee to saturation-point between her fingers, and then hastily put it into her mouth, so that it should not crumble to pieces on the way. If it did, there would be much laughter and wiping of skirts; and there would be a search through my dinner-jacket pockets for a handkerchief to dry the pink tips of her fingers.
Make use, if possible, of that which is black from decomposition, and will crumble readily under the application of the hoe, or iron rake. One-third in bulk of this material is not too much. Bulbs are great eaters, and unless they are well fed you cannot expect large crops of fine flowers from them.
"No, for while a woman gives her heart all at once, men crumble theirs away, as one feeds bread to birds a crumb to this woman, a crumb to that and such a little crumb, sometimes! And his wife gets what is left over." "Pray, where did you read that?" said Charteris. "I didn't read it anywhere. It was simply a thought that came to me," Patricia lied, gently. "But don't let's try to be clever.
Even before they made their fire or prepared their breakfast they were exploring along the edge of the gigantic cleft. Going first to make sure no rock should crumble under the girl's tread, no danger threaten, Stern tested every foot of the way to the very edge of the sheer chasm. "Slowly, now!" he cautioned, taking her hand. "We've got to be careful here. My God, what a drop!"
Graham turned hastily away. When a moment later he resumed his narrative, she noticed that his eyes were moist and his tones husky. "Our heaviest loss was in the demoralization of some of the regiments engaged. They appeared to have so little cohesion that one feared all the time that they might crumble away into mere human atoms.
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