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All thoughts of overtaking the horses in front fled from his mind; it was the dreaded punishment that interested him most; figuratively, he humped his back against the anticipated onslaught. Redpath felt the unmistakable sign of his horse sulking; and he promptly had recourse to the jockey's usual argument. Sitting in the stand Allis saw, with a cry of dismay, Redpath's whip-hand go up.
It is a veritable medley of planets, large and small, inhabited and barren, sinless, sinful and millennial. A little universe packed in a nutshell, figuratively speaking. The orb of this group that first held my attention is very notable indeed. I have labeled it "High Invention," and it is still entitled to that distinction.
"Always, with Pollyanna, you know, it was the 'clearing-up shower, both literally and figuratively; and I think you'll find she lives up to the same principle now though perhaps not quite in the same way. Poor child, I fear she'll need some kind of game to make existence endurable, for a while, at least." "Do you mean because Mrs. Chilton has lost her money? Are they so very poor, then?"
The party were figuratively swamped by the multitude of Teutons, who had swarmed on board, already looking truculent, arrogant and victorious drinking and toasting one another noisily in vast libations at the bar.
"All the same, I am very much obliged to you for the hint, and will do my best to profit by it." Whereupon, as I turned on my heel to quit the house, the garrulous Frenchman's three shipmates fell upon him, figuratively, tooth and nail, heaping reproaches upon the unhappy man's head for having warned me against the chief mate's astuteness.
'Believe me, sir, I would more gladly have cut off your head than your hair that is, figuratively speaking, sobbed the artist-in-hair-oils. 'Yes, my head would hardly be missed you are quite right, Gibbs; but my hair! What will they do without it at first nights and private views? It was worth five shillings a week to many a poor paragraph-writer. Well, I must try and make up for it by my beard!
"And everybody's been away the whole winter. Not a soul at home, anywhere, and I had to take my chance of surprising Mrs. Dick Kenton when I saw your door open here." He laughed forlornly, as the gleam faded out of Kenton's eye again. "And the worst of it is that my own mother isn't at home to me, figuratively speaking, when I go over to see her at Ballardsville.
He is powerful with all the power of corruption: I scorn his power, I figuratively spit upon it. He is perhaps the man whom the Government delights to honour. More shame to the Government!
A dozen groomsmen and as many female attendants accompanied the pair who were about to take the nuptial vow. Behind these came the trousseau and the corbeille; the first being that portion of the dowry of the bride which applies to her personal wants, and the last is an offering of the husband, and is figuratively supposed to be a pledge of the strength of his passion.
Before we proceed to study the technical methods of delineating characters, we must ask ourselves what constitutes a character worth delineating. A novelist is, to speak figuratively, the social sponsor for his own fictitious characters; and he is guilty of a social indiscretion, as it were, if he asks his readers to meet fictitious people whom it is neither of value nor of interest to know.
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