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We passed along the foot of Borrego, the mountain which has become so famous, owing to the conflict which took place there between sixty French soldiers and two thousand Mexicans, and had just reached the gateway of Angostura when a dog ran past, but soon returned, barking and fawning upon us in every way.
Why, even six months back he could not have stood there thus, a tenth as long, before the copper name-shield of the Claridge, without collecting about him a fawning, favor-hunting throng so dense, so tenacious, and troublesome to traffic that it would have brought the officer from his place beside the surface-car tracks, caustic-tongued, to investigate and disperse it.
She could not greatly influence her daughter-in-law against me, because, between that lady and herself there was a mutual dislike chiefly shown by her in secret detractions and calumniations; by the other, in an excess of frigid formality in her demeanour; and no fawning flattery of the elder could thaw away the wall of ice which the younger interposed between them.
He besought her to instruct him in the nature of the Sirens, and by what method their baneful allurements were to be resisted. These are the bones of men whom they have slain, after with fawning invitements they have enticed them into their fen.
'Perhaps the letter itself will tell the beautiful lady, the fortunate lady, the discerning lady, answered she, in a fawning, wheedling tone. 'How should a poor old Jewess know great folks' secrets? 'Great folks? Hypatia looked at the seal which fixed a silk cord round the letter. It was Orestes'; and so was the handwriting.... Strange that he should have chosen such a messenger!
He enters My black heaven with a pretense of gratitude, fawning before Me and accepting My fellowship with humility. There follows then a moment of insidious diversion. Slowly a confusion fills Me. Yes, even I am open to confusion. It is a pity I have for the babbling one. "I listen to his complaints. The sad-eyed Mallare staring at intolerable visions. Mallare, the dark chatterer.
Nefert shrieked with fright, but the dog at once knew her, and crouched against her with whines of recognition. Paaker, who had gone down to his boat, turned round in astonishment, and saw his dog fawning at the feet of a boy whom he could not possibly recognize as Nefert; he sprang back, and cried out: "I will teach you, you young scoundrel, to spoil my dog with spells or poison!"
At that moment I first fully understood that Severus was the present and I the future Caesar. Geta had only to obey, like every one else. "After kissing the image, I stood, still holding my father's hand, to watch the flames. I can see them now, crackling and writhing as they gained on the wood, licking it and fawning, as it were, till it caught and sent up a rush of sparks and fire.
And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King Pluto, there was the dragon tail wagging against its will, and looking as cross and ill-natured as you can imagine, on its own separate account. "Will the dog bite me?" asked Proserpina, shrinking closer to Pluto. "What an ugly creature he is!" "O, never fear," answered her companion.
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