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"The innovations are individually hardly perceptible, but taken together they alter the character of the hexameter line in a way more easily felt than described.
As they fell on the sand picture, three Snake priests stood in readiness, and while the reptiles squirmed about or coiled for defense, these men with their snake whips brushed them back and forth in the sand of the altar. The excitement which accompanied this ceremony cannot be adequately described.
He had a potted plant in his arms, wrapped in tissue paper. He set it on the counter and went away. When Miss Emily discovered the plant, she asked Derry, "Who put it there?" Derry described the man. "You were busy. He didn't stop." The plant was a cyclamen, blood-red and beautiful.
"The voices told me," she said, "that in the church vault at Fierbois there lies a sword marked with five crosses which I must carry, and no other." A messenger was sent, who found the sword exactly as she had described it. This naturally swelled the faith of the people in her divine mission.
While there, close to the fire, lying on the mattress, she was visited by the good doctor, who, feeling he could not bear to witness the spectacle just described, had asked her leave to retire, that he might say a mass for her, that God might grant her patience and courage. It is plain that the good priest had not prayed in vain.
Yes, He is still going on before still leading, and His leadership will continue until time shall be no more. The growth of Christianity from its beginning on the banks of the Jordan, until to-day, when its converts are baptized in every part of the world, is so graphically described by Dr.
Perhaps a few children whispered, or a baby cried and its mother took it out. Everybody seemed happy and astir. After church there was so much handshaking that the house emptied very slowly. But on his return he described the Quaker meeting to aunt Corinne. "They all sat and sat," said Bobaday.
Yet it does possess a marvellous adaptability which often seems to come very near it, and it is no doubt this property that caused elementals to be described in one of our early books as "the semi-intelligent creatures of the astral light". We shall find further evidence of this power when we come to consider the case of the artificial class.
He described his love in glowing colors. Korinna's heart, he said, must have gone forth to him; for, at their last meeting on the northern shore of the lake, her hand had rested in his while he helped her out of the boat; he could still feel the touch of her fingers.
It should be noted that the various kinds of fallacies run into each other, and not infrequently a given piece of bad reasoning can be described under more than one of them. Of all the sources of faulty and misleading reasoning, ambiguity is the most fruitful and the most inclusive.
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