Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. Three times I have been led to the hope, if not the belief, that I had found the object of my superstitious belief.
When the train pulled out of the station into the clearer light, she turned her face from him toward the forward window, and the corner of her mouth, which her half-averted profile gave him, had a kind of piteous droop which smote him to keener regret. Once it lifted in an upward curve, and a gay light came into the corner of her eye; then the mouth drooped again, and the light went out.
Duncan!" exclaimed Alice, bending forward to read his half-averted countenance, until a lock of her golden hair rested on her flushed cheek, and nearly concealed the tear that had started to her eye; "did I think this idle tongue of mine had pained you, I would silence it forever, Cora can say, if Cora would, how justly we have prized your services, and how deep I had almost said, how fervent is our gratitude."
He could have sat so forever, gazing with rapture upon her half-averted countenance, which beamed with such a divine beauty, all aglow with the happy consciousness of his ardent admiration, that it seemed the face of a seraph; and in his heart, if not on his knees, he bent in worship, almost idolatrous, at her feet. And yet he trembled, this strong man who had faced death in every form but this!
"Now tell me your own story everything from the moment you got the telegram up to our meeting in the Gardens." With half-averted face she listened, while the girl again began the interrupted narration, and went on telling everything to the finish, wondering at times why Mary sat so silent with face averted, as if afraid to meet her eyes. But when she finished Mary turned and took her hand.
Duncan!" exclaimed Alice, bending forward to read his half-averted countenance, until a lock of her golden hair rested on her flushed cheek, and nearly concealed the tear that had started to her eye; "did I think this idle tongue of mine had pained you, I would silence it forever.
In awarding us the franchise, therefore, these officials are in no way proving themselves false to their trust." Gorham studied the half-averted face of his companion carefully before he proceeded. "Do you follow me?" "Perfectly, although not wholly sympathetically," the Senator replied. Gorham smiled at Kenmore's frankness.
When, however, they sprang on board their blackened legs showed the nature of the mud into which they had stepped, and produced a malicious chuckle from Ben, who watched them with half-averted head. By moving their legs about in the water they soon got rid of the black stains, when, having resumed their places, they pulled the boat in close to where Ben and Dick were standing.
It is an old story. In a mad hour he forged another man's name then, a wanderer on the face of the earth, he drifted about with never a local habitation or a name, until his aged father had made good the price of his honor, when he came home "tramped home," the world says and, now, after years of variable steadiness, he has built upon the wreck of his early life a sort of questionable confidence which brings him half-averted recognition; and every day, with the gray always glistening on his temples and the clear profile of the past outlining itself though the high-bred face is low between the shoulders now he passes beneath my window with halting step to and from the old courthouse, where, by virtue of his father's position, he holds a minor office.
He took the swivel chair and glanced at her half-averted face gravely. "Rosemary," he said gently, "how would you like to ride over to Bennington with me to-morrow? They're opening the new hospital and I half promised to go. We'll be gone all the morning and it will make a little change for you." Bennington was the county seat, twenty miles away.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking