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Updated: May 1, 2025
There is a subterranean passage leading from the palaces to the Coliseum, which was made use of by the emperor and his suite for their transit thither; and a terribly anxious little journey that must often have been to the great Cæsars. The grand old Coliseum still rears its crumpling walls proudly towards the skies, though almost two-thirds lie in ruins.
This reminded her to turn another page, and she had scarcely noted that it contained the picture of a monkey when the animal sprang from the book with a great crumpling of paper and landed upon the window seat beside her. "He-he-he-he-he!" chattered the creature, springing to the girl's shoulder and then to the center table. "This is great fun!
Apparently this stage is reached at the end of the Archaean, and a great rise of the land probably protracted during hundreds of thousands of years takes place. The shore-bottoms round the primitive continent are raised above the water, their rocks crumpling like plates of lead under the overpowering pressure.
Fear! It's the black godmother of all damnable things!" Our friend bent down, crumpling and crumpling at his dog's ears. We, too, gazed at the ground, thinking of, that poor lost puppy, and the horrible inevitability of all that happens, seeing men are what they are; thinking of all the foul doings in the world, whose black godmother is Fear.
Little Thady Kilfoyle reported that he had met the strange man a bit down the road, "leggin' it along at a great rate, wid a black rowl of somethin' under his arm that he looked to be crumplin' up as small as he could" the word "crumpling" went acutely to Mrs.
"I executed your grace's orders, but M. Dagobert was accompanying his son to the door, and " "Very well!" interrupted Marshal Simon, with an abrupt and imperious gesture. The servant went out, and his master continued to walk up and down with impatient steps, crumpling, in his rage, a letter that he held in his left hand.
Jacqueline went on looking through the newspapers, crumpling up the sheets as she laid them down. The last she opened had the reputation of being a repository of scandals, never to be depended on, as she well knew. Several times it had come to her hand and she had not opened it, remembering what her father had always said of its reputation.
The colonel rose from his chair, steadied himself on the low window-sill, and looked out across the Tench. The silence was oppressive only the ticking of the clock in the next room and the bees among the flowers outside. "Wait until I return," he said, crumpling the paper. In a moment he was back, leading in his aunt by the hand.
Though she was beaten for this misdeed, she persisted nevertheless in tearing the favorite's gowns and crumpling her collars. At the time of Adeline's wonderful marriage, Lisbeth had bowed to fate, as Napoleon's brothers and sisters bowed before the splendor of the throne and the force of authority.
Well, as I was in the very act of crumpling it up, my glance fell upon the sketch at which you had been looking, and you may imagine my astonishment when I perceived, in fact, the figure of a death's-head just where, it seemed to me, I had made the drawing of the beetle. For a moment I was too much amazed to think with accuracy.
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