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Blackett," said Hutton, with a hideous grin distorting his monkeyish visage; "I'm only a-tellin' you of these here things for your own good,... an' I ain't afeered of no man-o'-war a-collarin' me. This here island is a place where you've got to sleep with one eye open, an' the moment you sees a nigger lookin' crooked at you put a lead pill in him that is, if he's a stranger from somewheres.
His account of Shelley is like a figure seen through fantastically distorting panes of glass. Thomas Love Peacock, again, is a man to whose extraordinary powers Shelley did full justice. He has worked through a long official career without losing his very peculiar dry wit; but a dry wit was not the man exactly to discern the form of Shelley's mind, or to portray it with accuracy and distinctness.
But, in the meantime, I have simply to tell you, that the manual arts are as accurate exponents of ethical state, as other modes of expression; first, with absolute precision, of that of the workman; and then with precision, disguised by many distorting influences, of that of the nation to which it belongs.
Not only did the articles in question contain a crushing criticism of the English system of suppressing and distorting the truth, but they also proved that for years America had been misled systematically from London in its judgment of foreign nations e.g., the 'degenerate' French.
The wretched window-glass breaking and distorting the pine-trees without. Little oval mirrors distorting the human countenance within. A square, cellarless room, about twenty feet from the house, had been the study of the elder Vannelle. A jumble of retorts and other chemical apparatus about the floor.
His wicked black eyes were twinkling, which, with the scars distorting his features, gave him a look of curiously malevolent triumph. "Guess they're kind of rough figgers," he apologized. "But they're near enough to make good readin'." "What's the total?" The demand was sharp and masterful. "Just under ten thousand ounces since last reckoning. That's the last half of last summer's wash-up.
From that time I looked out through other eyes, my thoughts were colored, my words dictated, my actions limited by one dominating, all-pervading idea which constantly increased in force and weight until I finally realized in it a great, tangible fact. And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States.
Yesterday we had intended to have killed off a great many visits, but the fates willed it otherwise. Mr. Hummelaur, attached to the Austrian Embassy, came; and then Mr. Chenevix, who converses delightfully, but all the time holding a distorting magnifying glass over French character, and showing horrible things where we thought everything was delightful.
"But " The rest was murmured so faintly, yet so tremendously audible to his superheated brain, that he drew back and stared up at her with an awful expression of mingled unbelief and horror distorting his face. "Do you know what you say?" he gasped, and shot an apprehensive glance toward Venner and Pearse. "Surely, my friend," she crooned.
The sprightly young lady whose entrance had been so opportune seemed a universal favorite, and was overwhelmed with invitations to "bag," "hop," and "blow" from the gentlemen who hovered about her, cheerfully distorting themselves to the verge of dislocation in order to win a glance of approbation from the merry black eyes which were the tapers where all these muscular moths singed their wings.
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