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As a set-off to this surrender of all questions of foreign policy and many internal rights, what did these rulers receive? As happened almost uniformly in Napoleon's aggrandizements, he struck a bargain extremely serviceable to himself, less so to those whose support he sought, and in which the losses fell crushingly on the weak.
Upon him was the last measure of defeat. He had staked his passion and his pride in the supreme attack, and had been crushingly repulsed. Doubt not that he read the incredible portents in the heavens now. His face went from chalk to leaden gray. He drew his tongue once across his lips, and said, just articulately: "If I go out of this room alone ... as God lives, you'll never see me again."
"I am a myself," said Miss Roberts, regarding him crushingly. Hunt, of course, knew that, and had advisedly selected her denomination for his strictures. But he replied as if a little confused by his blunder: "I beg your pardon. You don't look like one." "How do they usually look?" she asked sharply.
It is, above everything else, for those rooms upon rooms crowded with the pictures and statues and busts of the Englishmen who have made England England in every field of achievement that is oppressively, almost crushingly wonderful.
Harry, who had been stuffing fruitcake on the sofa sweets were his weakness rose suddenly and came over to the group. "If you are ever as beautiful as she is now, you may thank your stars, Miss Yellow Frisk!" he remarked crushingly.
With the death of her poor hope, with the collapse of all those flighty, childish dreams, the leaden weight of realities seemed to descend crushingly upon her. She felt stricken, inert, apathetic. It was all so unreal, so bizarre.
The Professor seized the bar and beat Finn off with it; not for protection now, but in sheer, savage anger. Then he withdrew from the cage, and seizing a long pole beat Finn crushingly with that, through the bars, till his arms ached.
I think I should scream if you told me it was bound to happen or will all turn out for the best." "I had no intention of saying any of those things in fact, they hadn't even entered my mind. What I was going to " "Oh, I know. You were going to remind me of what you said this morning. Almost prophetic, wasn't it?" And there was a strong touch of irony in her laugh. She turned on him crushingly.
For I must have my head and hands clear. It is a selfish view. I know that. It is crushingly selfish. But it is for a large purpose. I am a small man fitted to a great undertaking, and I can permit no divided interests. I need an unhampered mind." She walked a few steps. "And if I should travel with you as a woman and yet not marry you," she asked over her shoulder, "what then?" I looked away.
'Be one, snapped the Parnass. 'And then you come to us to share the expenses! 'Well, what do I want with a barometer? 'It'll do to tell you there's a storm when the chimney-pots are blowing down, suggested the Parnass crushingly. 'Put it in your window you'll make a profit out of it, said Mendel.
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