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After the long, flat plains of Holland, Tom had thought the Baden territory sufficiently mountainous; but now he was to make acquaintance with the snow-topped peaks and ranges of Switzerland, and his eyes dilated with awe and wonder when first he beheld the dazzling white peaks standing out clear against a sunny sky.
It doesn't seem possible that such a place can be conducted secretly; whereas I am assured that all the efforts of Scotland Yard thus far have failed to locate the site of the London branch." "But surely," cried Denise Ryland, nostrils dilated indignantly, "some of the... customers of this... disgusting place... can be followed?"... "The difficulty is to identify them," explained Cumberly.
The earl had Florimel's hand in his. "For God's sake, my lady!" cried Malcolm, "hear me one word before you promise that man anything." His lordship started back from Florimel, and turned upon Malcolm in a fury. But he had not now the advantage of the stair, and hesitated. Florimel's eyes dilated with wrath.
We can't wink but six times a week now," said Father Anselmo; "and by-and-by he won't let us wink at all." "Hist! hush! here he comes," said Father Johannes, "What ails him? he looks wild, like a man distraught." In a moment more, in fact, Father Francesco strode hastily through the corridor, with his deep-set eyes dilated and glittering, and a vivid hectic flush on his hollow cheeks.
Munroe in his misfortunes, his eyes dilated, and his gestures were as apt and energetic as though he had been an orator all his lifetime. "I see what you have done with your money," said Frank, as the speaker paused at the close of the narrative. "It was like you, Tony noble and generous!" "We gave all our money for the relief of Mr. Munroe; but I didn't even suggest the thing to the fellows.
"Your prayer has been answered," he said quietly. "I am here to help you, Mary." The grey lady stood there, with her hands pressed to her heart, her great pathetic eyes dilated with a curious fear. It was a long time before she spoke, though it was easy to see that she had penetrated Berrington's disguise. But then, he had spoken in his natural voice, which made all the difference.
The right man would have full control of practical operations, and I have a tolerably free hand in respect to financial conditions. The main thing we wish to discover is, are you willing to consider an offer of the position?" It was on the surface a simple business proposition, but Thurston's nostrils dilated and his brows contracted, for he guessed what lay behind it.
She was enormously, incredibly busy, and on the whole, she hoped, successfully so. The receptions, at least, went off very well, everybody said. Dr. Melton did not see his goddaughter again until he came with Mrs. Sandworth to the last of these events. She was looking singularly handsome at that time, her color high, her eyes very large and dark, almost black, so dilated were the pupils.
They seem to be in a specially good humor." Ernie sprang forward, his eyes dilated. He stared for a full minute without blinking. Then his grip on Dick's arm suddenly relaxed. "Oh, God, how I wish I was straight and handsome like him!" he cried brokenly. Dick did not look down, but he knew that the tears were standing in the boy's eyes. "Don't think about it, Ernie," he began.
It was no craze, under the influence of the moon, which possessed him; it was an idea of mere hostility to the moon. The Madras people, like many others, had an idea that she influenced the weather. Subsequently the Herschels, senior and junior, systematized this idea; and then the wrath of Andrew, previously in a crescent state, actually dilated to a plenilunar orb.
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