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His hat was pushed far back on his forehead; his face was flushed with elation; and, consciously unconscious of the waiting crowd, he gesticulated as he walked, throwing out the palms of his loosely dangling hands, and emphasising his words with restless movements of the head. He was respectfully greeted by those who had known him. A minute or two later came Louise.
Most poets aim rather at giving the musical effect, and the atmosphere, the vocal atmosphere, of the poem, than at emphasising individual meanings. They give, in the musician's sense, a "reading" of the poem, an interpretation of the poem as a composition. Mr.
Her black skirt was so short that it was like a flounce, and nothing more; from chest to back there was no more width than could be covered by the scraggy little arm, the feet dangled half- way to the floor, and the hands waved about, emphasising every sentence with impassioned gestures.
Before war was declared the German military experts were emphasising the importance of trees for masking troops and guns against aerial observation.
"No, never, ma'am," cried he, emphasising the assertion with a thump of his malacca cane that almost made a hole in Mrs Gilmour's best drawing- room carpet. "Not since I first joined the service at Portsmouth here, forty years ago, or more!"
At the present time, however, there is a real danger in some quarters at least of unduly emphasising the specifically vocational, or "practical" side of education. The man of affairs knows little or nothing of young minds and their limitations, of the conditions under which teaching is done, or of the educational values of the various studies in a school curriculum.
She was not entirely at ease; self-consciousness appeared in a furtive change of attitude from time to time; it might have been remarked, too, that she kept a guard upon her phrasing and even her pronunciation, emphasising certain words with a sort of academic pedantry. Perhaps it was this which caused Lady Ogram to ask at length whether she still worked for examinations.
Ryan, emphasising the statement by allowing his walking stick to fall heavily on a pile of music which lay on the piano. Von Barwig looked at him but did not speak. "You can't go on," said Schwarz. "Not while scabs are working there," added Mr. Ryan sententiously. Von Barwig tried to speak but could not; words would not come. His heart had almost stopped beating.
But when Amelia puts her foot down, she puts her foot down a fact which she is unnecessarily fond of emphasising in that identical proposition. So the self-same evening saw me safe in the train on my way to Paris; and next morning I turned out of my comfortable sleeping-car at the Gare de Strasbourg.
"Mr Riddell means Mr Parrett's, I presume?" asked Mrs Patrick in her sweetest tones, looking hard at the speaker, and emphasising the "Mr" "I beg your pardon," he said, "I'm sorry." "We shall miss Wyndham," said the doctor. "Yes, thank you," replied Riddell, who at that moment was dodging vaguely in front of Miss Stringer as she stood solemnly waiting to get past him to the tea-table.
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