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He stopped and although not a trained orator, the pause could have been no more effective. Dick looked around him. The faces of those nearest were grave and unmoved, as if carved from the mother rock of the country in which they delved; but he saw a light in their frowning eyes that told how deeply their sympathies were stirred.
Adone was at work, stripped to his shirt and hidden in the delved earth to his shoulders. He looked up from the trench and lifted his hat as he saw the priest enter the field; then he resumed his labour. "Come out of your ditch and hearken to me. I will not weary you with many words."
He refilled and lighted his pipe, then he said, "I don't want to invade private precincts, but after hearing that I'd like to see the portrait. May I?" I delved into the mate's chest, and unwrapped the newspaper page. For some moments he gazed at it, and I began to wonder whether it held the same magic infatuation for every one else that it did for me.
The references were consulted, or Sir George's own words of old delved among; and from his discourse there sprang a regular series of notes. 'It's a kind of task, he remarked once, 'that might easily enough lend itself to vain-glory. We must avoid that. If there is anything that could so be read, I alone am the sinner; for with his memories there go my interpretation and appreciation of him.
Thus the rich man and the poor man talked together, moving along parallel lines, neither understanding, and each looking down upon the other Alan with the scornful pity of the scholar who has delved in the dust of dreary negatives which generations of doubters have gradually heaped up; and Caleb with the pitiful scorn of one who has been into the sanctuary of God, and so learned to understand the end of these men.
To this lawless and tumultuous multitude Ball was appointed preacher, and assumed for the text of his first sermon the following lines: "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?"
Down, down, down went the stairs, until at length we reached the bottom and found ourselves in a cave, the stairs ending in a small foyer area which opened out into the cave, it being delved into the bedrock layer, indicating that we had indeed passed below the surface on our descent.
Deeper into the woods they delved, past bowers of pink azalea and closely growing branches of trees whose tender green foliage was breaking into summer growth. The bright May sunshine dripped through the green and dappled the ground in little discs of gold. Suddenly the path led up-hill in a steep grade. Amanda stopped and leaned against a slender sapling. "Stand here and look up," she invited.
The simple pleasures of the poor. His hindpaws then scattered the sand: then his forepaws dabbled and delved. Something he buried there, his grandmother. He rooted in the sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the air, scraped up the sand again with a fury of his claws, soon ceasing, a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach, vulturing the dead.
He checked his impetuous, unconsidered words too late. The girl's quick mind delved into his unspoken thought. She started and stepped back, crying, "'To give? Judd Amos, war hit yo' thet paid me ther extry price on them baskets?" Confused and distressed, the other remained silent until she repeated her question insistently. Then he answered pleadingly, "I loves ye, Smiles.
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