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"Lad," he replied, somewhat sternly, "never give up as long as you can bat an eye. That's my doctrine." And he looked it; so did Ralph a moment later, nor did the boy complain again. All that weary day they fought a losing battle against wind and wave, and when night once more closed in without any sign of clearing weather, the hearts of both were at the lowest ebb of hope.
He died at twenty-seven, having been Purcell's master; and though Purcell's imagination was richer, deeper, more strenuous in the ebb and flow of its tides, one might fancy that the two men had but one spirit, which went on growing and fetching forth the fruits of the spirit, while young Humphries' body decayed by the side of his younger wife's in the Thames-sodden vaults of Westminster Abbey.
'You are brave, Mr Storekeeper, but I have seen a brave man's courage ebb very fast when he saw the death which I have arranged for you. Would you like to hear something of it by way of preparation? In a low gentle voice he began to tell me mysteries of awful cruelty. At first I scarcely heard him, but as he went on my brain seemed to wake from its lethargy. I listened with freezing blood.
Surely, intellect was highly valued in those days, and moral etiquette was at a low ebb! Mlle. de Lespinasse possessed two characteristics which were prominent in a remarkable degree—love and friendship.
Once they were, but now, in some moods, they are merely remembered. Only the men busy on the deck of the ship below are real. Through an arch beneath the feet a barge shoots out noiselessly on the ebb, and staring down at its sudden apparition you feel dizzily that it has the bridge in tow, and that all you people on it are being drawn unresisting into that lower world of shades.
"How soon will it be high water?" asked Mark at last, after wearily watching the constant flow. "Must be soon, sir," said Tom Fillot, who seemed to have dropped into the position of first lieutenant. "Beg pardon, sir, you mean to sail with the ebb?" "Certainly. We must not stay here. That scoundrel may return with help." "You're right, sir. Sooner we're out at sea the better I shall like it."
A large number of children, in convalescence from infective disorders, when the nutrition of the body has fallen to a low ebb, show as evidence of cerebral exhaustion a group of symptoms which in a sense are the reverse of those which characterise cerebral irritation and chorea. The healthy child is a creature of free movement.
Balanced by the regular oscillations of ebb and flow, it rises and falls with the planet of night; rising still higher when concurrent with the planet of day, the two uniting their forces during the equinoxes cause the great tides. Our connection with the heavens is nowhere more clearly indicated.
It was as if the prospect of seeing Janice gave her some of that flood of vitality which always seems to ebb and flow so richly in the life of a metropolis. You haven’t any idea how tired I am of looking at you, Lucinda. If you looked like anything it would be different. But you don’t." Lucinda rocked placidly; hers was what is called an "even disposition."
'Don't don't speak so! I wanted to see you. She hurried her words, as if afraid he would refuse to listen. 'I have told Mary I wanted you to know 'Come in. But there's no fire, and you're chilled through. Do you want to be ill? What outrageous silliness! Her vitality was indeed at a low ebb, and reproaches made her weep.
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