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She did not reply at once, but put her hat on, and tied the ribbons loosely under her chin, looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Is that the Western slang for saying he belongs nowhere?" she asked. "Nowhere here," he answered with a grim twist to the corner of his mouth, his eyes half-closing with sulky meaning.
Pelgram gave a preliminary cough, and glanced hastily about the room, but calculating that his audience would be larger later on, he restrained himself. "What is art?" he slowly repeated, half-closing his eyes and smiling mystically on his guests. "What is art?" Miss Long hung breathlessly on his words.
Let us drink to all those qualities which make you par excellence one of that great race, the best hearted in the world, which never thinks of to-morrow, never knows when it is beaten, and seldom loses its sense of humour. "Ah!" returned Joe enigmatically, half-closing one of his greenish eyes, and laying the glass to one side of his reddish nose.
It was not a pleasant countenance, for it was foul without with dirt and more foul within from disease, being covered with ruddy fiery blotch and pimple, and the eyes were of that unnatural hue worn by one who has for years been debased by drink. "Yah!" roared the man, half-closing his bleared eyes. "Leave the bairn alone." "O Izick!" gasped the woman.
Ippolyte Ippolytovich was silent and indifferent, only at moments, half-closing and screwing up his eyes, and straightening out his lips, he laughed: "He-he! He-he!" Then added, slyly: "I am dying, you say? He-he! He- he!" Ilya Ippolytovich walked through the empty rooms of the dying house. How dusty and mouldy it seemed!
The man was tall and meagre, with a receding forehead and a sandy complexion that should have been freckled, but was not. He had a trick of half-closing his eyes when he looked at anything, not screwing them up as seamen do, but appearing rather to drop a film over them like the inner eyelid of a bird.
"What is it?" asked Mr. Raleigh. "Forgot to say, Massa," replied Capua, rolling his eyes fearfully, and still hesitating, and half-closing the door, and then looking back. "Well, Capua?" "Mass' Raleigh, your house done been burned up!" said Capua, at last, jerking back his head, as if afraid of losing it. "Ah? And what did you do with" "Oh, eberyting safe an' sound.
Bouvard, who wrote spread over his desk, with his elbows out, in order the better to round his letters, gave vent to a kind of whistle while half-closing his heavy eyelids with a waggish air.
I don't like I'm almost unable to speak about this to her." "Very well, I will talk to her. But how is it she does not think of it herself?" said Darya Alexandrovna, and for some reason she suddenly at that point recalled Anna's strange new habit of half-closing her eyes. And she remembered that Anna drooped her eyelids just when the deeper questions of life were touched upon.
There was the scratching of a match followed by the pop of a gas-ring, and half-closing my eyes I lay back in serene and silent contentment. I was aroused by the chink of a spoon, and the splash of something liquid being poured out. Then I saw my host coming towards me, carrying a large steaming china bowl in his hand. "Here you are," he said. "Do you think you can manage to feed yourself?"
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