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All at once made for the tents; and they were but just in time, for the rain began to fall in torrents, and a peal of thunder crashed out overhead as they got under the canvas. "This is our first experience of this sort of thing," Harry said, as he and his brother lit their pipes half-sitting and half-reclining on their beds.
He rose from his chair, and approaching the window where I sat in a half-reclining position, he drew a small chair opposite mine, and sitting down, laid one hand confidingly on my wrist. "You can do much!" he replied, earnestly, "and I feel that I can thoroughly depend upon you. Watch over HER! She will have no other protector, and she is so beautiful and careless!
Looking up, he beheld by the dull red light of the almost extinct fire, the form of Phil Briant, half-seated, half-reclining, on the branch of a tree not ten feet from the ground, and clasping another branch tightly with both arms. At that moment, Ailie, who had awakened, ran up, and caught Glynn by the hand. "Hallo! Briant!" exclaimed Glynn. A very loud snore was the reply. "Briant!
Moving to and fro, sitting, half-reclining, standing in various graceful poses she invited, challenged, dared, his closest attention professional attention, of course to every curve and detail. In spite of its simplicity of color and line, the gown still bore the unmistakable stamp of the wearer's world.
Joam Garral, who had just come in, was half-reclining on a couch of plaited bamboos, when Yaquita, a little anxious, came and seated herself beside him. To tell Joam of the feelings which Manoel entertained toward his daughter was not what troubled her.
She was, indeed, a handsome woman so much of her as could be seen. Half-sitting, half-reclining on her couch, the lower part of her frame was swathed in eastern stuffs sparkling with gold threads. She wore a yellow silk dress trimmed about the shoulders with black lace and glittering with valuable jewels. Her neck and arms were finely moulded and of a dazzling whiteness.
His labors on the Examiner had just commenced. He was seated, half-reclining, in an arm-chair, surrounded by "exchanges," from which he clipped paragraphs, throwing the papers, as soon as he had done so, in a pile upon the floor. His black eyes, long black hair, brushed behind the ears, and thin, sallow cheeks, were not agreeable; but they made up a striking physiognomy.
I sat down beside her, caught her to me, kissed her till she was breathless.... "There ... there ... please! Please!" "What! you're not tiring of my kisses?" "No, dearest boy, but I have a curious feeling, I tell you ... maybe we're being watched...." "Nonsense ... he believes I told him the truth." And I caught her in my arms again, half-reclining on the bed.
The great Emperor stirred from his indolent, half-reclining position and leaned forward with a sudden look of interest on his lowering features, and as he did so a man attired in the costume of a gladiator entered the arena from one of its side doors and with a calm step and assured demeanour walked up to the front of the royal dais and there dropped on one knee.
She had returned from seeing Mitya half an hour before, and from the rapid movement with which she leapt up from her chair to meet him he saw that she had been expecting him with great impatience. A pack of cards dealt for a game of “fools” lay on the table. A bed had been made up on the leather sofa on the other side and Maximov lay, half-reclining, on it.
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