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Smallbones grinned diabolically, and Vanslyperken, who remembered all that the men had said in confirmation of his own opinion relative to Smallbones, turned pale, Smallbones, on his part, aware from Corporal Van Spitter that the lieutenant had such an idea, immediately took advantage of the signs in the lieutenant's countenance, and drawled out, "That's not so easy!" Vanslyperken turned away.

For instance, during the campaign of 1807 Ah! I will tell to you how I crawled through the enclosure to see a pretty little German." Here the chief closed one eye and executed a diabolically sly smile. "Where have you been to-day?" asked Ivan Ivanovitch, wishing to cut the chief short and bring him more speedily to the object of his visit.

If you ever want your umbrella mended, I know a man who will do it cheap and well. Nasty day, isn't it? Go on! go on!" The general opinion which ranks vanity among the lighter failings of humanity, commits a serious mistake. Vanity wants nothing but the motive power to develop into absolute wickedness. Vanity can be savagely suspicious and diabolically cruel.

I believe I have finished that flask. Let us take our coffee. We can define that beforehand, for we know by daily experience how diabolically bad it is." Orsino saw that Spicca meant to lead the conversation away in another direction. "May I ask you one serious question?" he inquired, leaning forward. "With a little ingenuity you may even ask me a dozen, all equally serious, my dear Orsino.

As they advanced, they came under a diabolically heavy rifle fire; bullets were raining upon them from all sides. Here and there he heard moans already, when one of the soldiers fell bleeding on the snow. Close to him fell the young Cossack who had given him the muffler and breeches. He held out his hand, groaning.

I can see that our host won't rest content till I've promised to dine here three times a week to drink his port; I've been good value to Lady Poynter; if I play bridge, I shall lose a lot of money to Gaymer not that I don't play quite a fair game, but I'm sure, without even seeing him, that he plays a diabolically good game and I know I shall cut against him. Mrs. Shelley?

Kennedy was clinging to a lightning rod on the cross. It broke. I gasped as Craig reeled back. But he managed to catch hold of the rod further down and cling to it. The crook seemed to exult diabolically. Holding with both hands to the cross, he let himself out to his full length and stamped on Kennedy's fingers, trying every way to dislodge him. It was all Kennedy could do to keep his hold.

There was something so odd about his manner and about the things he said that Nino was silent, and allowed him to proceed. "The fact is," he continued, "that love is a very rare thing, nowadays, and is so very generally an abominable sham that I have often amused myself by diabolically devising plans for its destruction. On this occasion I very nearly came to grief myself.

His richest prize was the great temple of Sunnat, or Somnaut, on the promontory of Guzerat, between the Indus and Bombay. It was a place as diabolically wicked as it was wealthy, and we may safely regard Mahmood as the instrument of divine vengeance upon it. But here I am only concerned with its wealth, for which grave writers are the vouchers.

Read this, dearest Barbara, and judge for yourself: "Vladimir started, for in his veins the lust of passion had welled until it had reached boiling point. "'Countess, he cried, 'do you know how terrible is this adoration of mine, how infinite this madness? No! My fancies have not deceived me I love you ecstatically, diabolically, as a madman might!

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