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The rains, the winds and the waves, the complexity and the fitfulness of nature, are always before him. His work is not yet in being, and he must foresee its influence: how it shall deflect the tide, exaggerate the waves, dam back the rain-water, or attract the thunderbolt.
The duchess took the second letter, and read as follows: "'MY DEAR ARMAND, "Is this it, or are you mistaken again?" said the duchess to Richelieu. "No, no; this time it is right." The duchess went on. "'MY DEAR ARMAND You are a dangerous advocate when you plead against Monsieur de Villeroy. I need to exaggerate your talents to diminish my weakness.
She recovered in an instant, and threw up entrenchments against the attack she saw he was about to make. "You exaggerate, I trust," said she. "Your forebodings will be proved groundless. You will return safe and sound from this venture, as indeed I hope you may." That was his cue. "You hope it?" he cried, arresting his step, turning, and imprisoning her left hand in his right. "You hope it?
His pessimism about his play caused him to exaggerate the enormity of his offences. He pictured her, looking at him with that queer air of puzzled pathos that had so impressed him when he first saw her, and intense shame filled him when he thought that he had done or said anything to make her look at him in that way. Well, he would compensate her for any pain that he had caused her.
They are always ill at ease, fearful, devoured by dread of other people's censures, and completely upset by the idea of the least initiative. Their mania leads them to exaggerate the smallest incident.
"You will meet the greatest kindness here, you will have the heartiest welcome on the face of the earth," he continued. "But there is a great deal of disturbance, is there not?" asked her companion. "Oh, the newspapers exaggerate dreadfully shamefully, to get up a sensation in the interest of their own flimsy sheets.
Even brilliant men's conceptions of the possibilities of their mental forces are so limited and below their real worth that they are far more likely to belittle their possibilities than they are to exaggerate them. You don't want to think that an aim is impossible because it has never been realized in the past. Every day someone is doing something that was never done before.
He did not consciously exaggerate, but he made as good a case as he could; and he talked to an ear inclined to listen. "He caught you and Puttock on false pretences utterly false pretences," Kilshaw ended. "Puttock saw it pretty soon." "I was too stupid, I suppose?" "Well, if you like," said Kilshaw, with a laugh. "I suppose when one doesn't appreciate a man's game, one calls him stupid."
I was not in the least likely to hear an exaggerated version of Lalage's performance from any source; because no one in the world, not even a politician, could exaggerate the truth about the Anti-Tommy-Rot Gazette. My mother went on: "You appear to be mixed up in the affair, and, on the whole, I advise you to get out of it at once if you can.
Though its days of greatest value were soon over, no one can exaggerate the importance of this waterway in the growth and prosperity of Chicago between 1848 and 1860. By 1857 Chicago was sending north and south annually by boat over twenty million bushels of wheat and corn.
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