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Pointing along the divergent northwest road, I ask him if this is the koon lo to Sam-shue; for answer he bestows upon me an expansive but wholly expressionless grin, and points silently toward Canton.
Sometimes when the injured man opened his eyes he saw the motionless and muffled figure of Pèp's wife who sat staring at him with expressionless eyes, moving her lips as if in prayer, and giving vent to profound sighs. No sooner did she encounter the glassy gaze of Febrer than she ran to a small table covered with bottles and glasses.
But he moved towards her, the strangest look in his eyes, the fixed expressionless gaze of a somnambulist. "Olga " "No, no!" she exclaimed, as if suddenly stricken with fear, throwing out her arms to repel him. "You didn't mean that! It is my fault. You never meant that." "Yes! Give me your hand again!" he said in a thick voice, the blood rushing into his cheeks. "Not now. You misunderstood me.
Renewed hope aroused within her a spirit of greater cheerfulness, and it was almost blithely now that she moved at the side of her weird companion. She even caught herself humming a gay little tune that was then popular in Helium. The creature at her side turned its expressionless eyes upon her. "What is that noise that you are making?" it asked. "I was but humming an air," she replied.
Natalya uttered all this in an even, almost expressionless voice. 'And you, Natalya Alexyevna, what did you answer? asked Rudin. 'What did I answer? repeated Natalya.... 'What do you intend to do now? 'Good God, good God! replied Rudin, 'it is cruel! So soon... such a sudden blow!... And is your mother in such indignation? 'Yes, yes, she will not hear of you. 'It is terrible!
Robert saw that the Ojibway had now risen and that he and the Onondaga were regarding each other with a gaze so intent and fierce, so compact of hatred that he was startled and his great pulses began to beat hard. But it was only for an instant or two that the two warriors looked thus into hostile eyes. Then both sat down and their faces became blank and expressionless. The gaze of St.
That precise gentleman of stiffness and English immobility appeared, clothed in extreme evening dress, and established himself, ramrod-like, in a customary spot in the center of the floor. There was a figure on the Persian rug whereon Mr. Gwynn never failed to take position. Once in place, eye as expressionless as the eye of a fish, Mr. Gwynn would wait in dead silence for Richard to speak. Mr.
A sandy plain, checkered across by verdant-banded arroyos, and splotched with little clumps of trees and little fields of corn. In the heart of it all was Santa Fé, a mere group of dust-brown adobe blocks silent, unsmiling, expressionless the city of the Spanish Mexican, centuries old and centuries primitive.
Wisely he kept silent, and Jimmy Grayson, stopping a moment at his own door, said, in the grave but otherwise expressionless tone that he had used throughout the discussion: "Good-night, Harley; I don't think we shall forget this evening, shall we?" "No," replied Harley, and he tried to decipher a meaning in Jimmy Grayson's tone, but he could not.
Presently there came the steady footfalls of soldiers in formation and a sudden fear seized upon Tom. "They they ain't going to arrest me, are they?" he asked, with alarm in every line of his ordinarily expressionless face. "Put you both in the guardhouse," said the captain briefly. "Didn't you didn't you believe me?" Tom pleaded simply and not without some effect.
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