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The foolish Adams and Eves fret and strain against these processes of development, and bewail their "mistake" in marrying; not seeing that the association is really benefiting both.
"We've had a real nice Christmas Eve, after all," said he. "Yes." "Our Christmas Eves at home are usually quiet. I'm the only kid there, and I don't make much noise.
Lizzie Fleming said Maria was sure to get the ring and, though Fleming had said that for so many Hallow Eves, Maria had to laugh and say she didn't want any ring or man either; and when she laughed her grey-green eyes sparkled with disappointed shyness and the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin.
So, to raise her courage, he began with the Emperor's congratulations, and while her eves were sparkling brightly and her pale cheeks were crimsoned by a fleeting flush, he went on, as considerately as he could, to inform her of the Emperor's resolution, not neglecting while he did so to place it in a milder light by many a palliating remark.
"It makes me homesick," said another, a melancholy little man who was forever bragging of his native Duluth. "Christmas," I repeated "to-morrow!" It was Christmas Eve, and I had not known it! I leaned back in my chair in sudden loneliness, what pictures coming before me of long-ago Christmas Eves at home! old Christmas Eves when there was a Tree....
George flung himself on his bed. What a relief to feel it was all over! He lay there with eves shut for hours, as it seemed. After a time Dave came in. George leaped to his feet and saw his friend stumbling over a chair. Somehow, Dave did not look as usual. He seemed changed, or shrunken, and his face wore a discomfited, miserable expression. "Well?" cried George, sharply.
Dan's whistle stopped abruptly. "On a dish of fried chicken and a pot of coffee," he replied at once. "What's become of the waffles?" demanded Jack indignantly. "I say, old man, do you remember the sinful waste on those blessed Christmas Eves at Chericoke? I've been trying to count the different kinds of meat roast beef, roast pig, roast goose, roast turkey " "Hold your tongue, won't you?"
'The Aphrodites how I insulted her fair form by those failures! the Freyjas, the Nymphs and Fauns, Eves, Avices, and other innumerable Well-Beloveds I want to see them never any more!... "Instead of sweet smell there shall be stink, and there shall be burning instead of beauty," said the prophet. And they came away.
It is very difficult for me to describe the period of time which elapsed between my arrival at Babyan's Peak and my marriage with Stella. When I look back on it, it seems sweet as with the odour of flowers, and dim as with the happy dusk of summer eves, while through the sweetness comes the sound of Stella's voice, and through the gloom shines the starlight of her eyes.
He was found two eves ago pierced to the heart with an arrow beneath an oak in Malwood Chace." "God have mercy on his poor soul!" ejaculated Edgar, crossing himself. "No moment vouchsafed for penitence! Alas! Who did the deed, Father Dunstan?" "That is not known," returned the priest, "save that Walter Tyrrel is fled like a hunted felon beyond seas, and my Lord Henry to Winchester."
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