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But there they stood, Lempriere's face with a great-eyed gravity looming above his rotund figure like a moon above a purple cloud. But huge and loose though the Seigneur's motions seemed, he was as intent as though there were but two beings in the universe, Leicester and himself.
There being no bedstead she had flung down some rugs and made a little nest for herself in the very cramped quarters the closet afforded. When he looked in upon her she sprang out of her lair, great-eyed and trembling. "You ought not to have pulled open the door!" she cried excitedly. "It is not becoming in you! Oh, will you go away; please will you!"
Just now it hung in damp, shining strands on either side of her face, so that she looked most remarkably like one of those oval-faced, great-eyed, red-lipped women that the old Italian artists were so fond of painting. Below her, blazing in the sun, lay the great stone and iron city.
Well I remember his bursting into our London lodging late one afternoon, great-eyed and almost in tears for joy of that first visit.
Kit told of the lugger, ready to sail; of the business of the barrels in the creek; of the rumbling in the drain. The Parson listened with nodding head. "I feel like a mouse that knows it's going to have a cat jump on its back, but don't know quite when or just how," he muttered. "Meantime there's Nelson, sir!" cried the boy, great-eyed and anxious. "I know, my boy, I know.
The great, slow creature cowered and grew dumb under my story. Then he went, great-eyed and hanging-lipped, from cabin to cabin. I had locked up his springs of word and thought. But one thing my sword and my words prodded out of him. He had come by the portage path from the east, and had seen no marks of passage that were less than a week old. Our star led west.
He looked up in mild surprise; the first wave of Rickett's men had swept out of the courthouse to take the trail of the fugitive or to watch the pursuit; in this second wave came the remnants, the old men, the women; great-eyed children. In spite of their noise of foot and voice they appeared to be trying to walk stealthily, talk so softly.
The criticism is like our impatience of miles when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards. The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life. The publication, in Mr.
Now presently she stirred in my embrace, and looking down at her, I saw her regarding me, great-eyed. "Here do I rest for the second time, Martino," she murmured. "I wonder when the third shall be?" "God knoweth!" said I; and being come to the trees, I laid her there as comfortably as I might and went to aid Resolution to secure the boat.
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