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"Hope she will," said Captain Swarth, with a pleasant smile and a lightening of his eyes "hope she will, and give me a chance. Her majestic widowship owes me a brig, and that's a fine one." Mr. Todd had never been known to smile, but at this speech he lifted one eyebrow and turned his saturnine face full at his superior, inquiry written upon every line of it.
Better still, a double expression can be imparted to the physiognomy, by approaching the left hand to the left side of the mouth, the left side of the physiognomy will smile, while at the same time, by closing the right hand, the right eyebrow will frown. The subject can be made to send kisses, or to turn his hands round each other indefinitely.
He is one who is religious without being sectarian, philosophic without being a partisan, and loving without being weak. 'A paragon, truly! exclaimed Sir Gervas, who was busy with his eyebrow brush. 'This is what he saith, I continued, and proceeded to read the very letter which I now read to you.
"What's `strafen' and what's `zanken, Daisy?" asked the Colonel, pronouncing the latter like "z" in buzz. Ruth went up to her father and took his face between her hands, dropping a light kiss on his eyebrow. " Strafen is when one whips bad boys and t s zanken is when one only scolds them. Which shall we do to you, dear? Both?"
I say I hold that man and I delight vastly in ready wit; it is the wine of language! I regard that man as the superior being. True, he is not so entertaining. My father pressed on my arm to intimate, with a cavernous significance of eyebrow, that Captain DeWitt had the gift of repartee in perfection. 'Jorian, said he, 'will you wager our editor declines to dine with us?
And they thrust the stake of olive wood into the fire till it was ready, green as it was, to burst into flame, and they thrust it into the monster's eye; for he had but one eye and that was in the midst of his forehead, with the eyebrow below it. And I, standing above, leaned with all my force upon the stake, and turned it about, as a man bores the timber of a ship with a drill.
"Don't you think, now, Fletcher, that the ten thousand pays you for all you've done? Isn't it enough for a month or two's work?" "I think I am paid when I get what was agreed on," replied Fletcher, stoutly. The eyebrow was raised with a deprecatory, inquiring look. "Why, Fletcher, sharp's the word, is it?" "That's what you said, when we started."
Then Ulysses bade his comrades be of good courage, for the time was come when they should be delivered. And they thrust the stake of olive wood into the fire till it was ready, green as it was, to burst into flame, and they thrust it into the monster's eye; for he had but one eye, and that in the midst of his forehead, with the eyebrow below it.
I had to fetch him and make him come back to bed." Then she seemed to feel that an explanation was necessary. She bent rosily over the work, and said: "We don't want the servants to know." Again the piano began to ripple and thunder. Again we heard John go into the dining-room. I must have lifted an eyebrow, for Lucy said: "Yes. I'm afraid so, but it doesn't seem to go to his head.
"If the Normans rule Ireland," he observed, "your fortunes may improve. A grant of land there might be worth your while." The young knight met the Count's searching glance fearlessly. "I would not take it," he answered. "Dermot lost his realm by his own fault. There is no honor in serving him." "Ah," said the Count with a quizzical lift of the eyebrow, "in that case you are very right."
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