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Then the Ogre struck at him with his iron club; it was even bigger than that which the first Ogre had, and the earth and stones flew up ten yards into the air. My! said Shortshanks, 'that was something like a blow now you shall see a stroke of mine. Then he grasped his sword, and cut off all the Ogre's ten heads at one blow, and sent them dancing away over the sand.
The veterans who were toasting themselves in the sun near the overturned boats, on scanning the broad horizon, would finally discern an almost imperceptible point, a grain of sand dancing capriciously on the waves. They would all break into shouts and conjectures. It was a buoy, a piece of masthead, the drift from a distant shipwreck.
It was Dick Albright. "Good afternoon, Miss Brewster," he said formally. "Good afternoon, Mr. Albright," said Sahwah in the same tone, her eyes dancing in her head. Then she burst out, "Oh, Dick, won't you take us coasting to-morrow night? This is positively the last snow of the season." "Sure," said Dick. "Take you to-night if you want to." Sahwah shook her head.
There the dog stood, at the mouth of the hole, quivering with excitement from his nose to the tip of his tail, and behind him were the cruel boys dancing with joy and setting the dog on. The poor creature would disappear in the water in terror; but he must breathe, and out would come his nose again, nearer the dog each time.
The beautiful white-limbed figures that supported the galleries reminded him once more of the restored magnificence of sculpture; they seemed to writhe in engaging attitudes, their faces laughed. The source of the music that filled the place was hidden, and the whole vast shining floor was thick with dancing couples. "Look at them," said the little officer, "see how much they show of motherhood."
In the Suit of Feathers, for instance, the fairy wears a hideous mask and a wig of scarlet elf locks: the suit of feathers itself is left entirely to the imagination; and the heavenly dance is a series of whirls, stamps, and jumps, accompanied by unearthly yells and shrieks; while the vanishing into thin air is represented by pirouettes something like the motion of a dancing dervish.
Bill might have said more but he did not; for a good reason he could not just then trust his voice; so he jumped up and began to dance a hornpipe, though he was not very perfect in the art of dancing. "Never mind," he said, "I will learn something more about that too, when I get to sea." Bill was up betimes, dressed in his new suit. "Mother, I would like to carry your basket for you," he said.
The Indians had stopped dancing, and were engaged in heaping up a great pile of burning logs. "What are they about?" I asked. Brightson looked at me with a grim light in his eyes.
But as she was dancing the last quadrille with one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with Vronsky and Anna. She had not been near Anna again since the beginning of the evening, and now again she saw her suddenly quite new and surprising.
Thursdays and Sundays, which were school holidays, were given up specially to lessons in what were known as accomplishments: drawing, music, physical exercises, riding, fencing, singlestick, dancing, &c. In winter time we lived in the Palais-Royal, which then was not at all what it is nowadays.
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