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His only defence was that the guard had told him in German to do something, and almost the only German he knew was that word, because they'd shouted it at him when they found him half-unconscious in his trench and kicked him back behind the lines, and the women and children had screamed it at him, in the intervals of spitting in his face at all the stations.
Tears filled his eyes. His heart was like ice, only heavier, within him. He stood for a minute motionless and half-unconscious. Then recovering himself by a powerful effort, he advanced once more. Without venturing to open the door wider, he worked through the narrow aperture, inch by inch, stopping every few seconds for fear that the rustle of his shirt against the jamb might be overheard.
"God be thanked for that!" she exclaimed, half-unconscious of the interpretation that might be put on her words; "All that we have seen of Mr. Wychecombe would lead us to believe that this is not an unusual, or an accidental forbearance." "So much the more fortunate for him. I congratulate you, young sir, on this triumph of principle, or of temperament, or of both.
The great bombshell which Luther cast forth on June 24, 1520, in his address to the German nobility, indeed, contains strong appeals to the economical and political necessities of Germany, and therein we see the veil torn from the half-unconscious motives that lay behind the theological mask; but, as already said, in the popular literature, with a few exceptions, the theological controversy rules undisputed.
He crossed the room, opened a cupboard and brought a telephone instrument to the table. "City 1000," he began. "Yes! British and Imperial Right! Mr. Harrison there? Ask him to come to the 'phone, please. Harrison? Good! Wait a moment. Mr. Phipps will speak to you." Wingate held the telephone before the half-unconscious man. Phipps swayed towards it. "Yes? That Harrison? Mr. Phipps.
The conversation here dropped for a time, George resuming the somewhat dejected saunter fore and aft from the main-mast to the taffrail, and the half-unconscious whistling for a wind, in which he had before been indulging.
He is a little wild just now, and as I intend to leave him in thy charge we must restrain him a bit. Hand me that rope." The boy obeyed in silence, but with much wonder depicted on his face while Erling lashed Kettle's hands together, and, lifting him in a half-unconscious state into his ship, bound him in as comfortable a position as he could, to one of the rowers' banks.
Bazaroff did not get up again all day, and passed the whole night in heavy, half-unconscious slumber. At one o'clock in the morning, opening his eyes with an effort, he saw, by the light of a lamp, his father's pale face bending over him, and told him to go away.
Then, feeling that she had for the present at least done her duty, she took her leave, promising to call again before she left town that afternoon. Jenkins went for the doctor, as Mrs. Vane had told him to do. When that gentleman arrived, he found Mr. Lepel stretched on a sofa in a half-unconscious state, and declared him to be in one of the incipient stages of brain-fever. Mrs.
For how long, she had no idea. A little rain fell, and afterwards the sky showed signs of clearing; stars were again visible here and there. She had sunk into a half-unconscious state, when Quarrier's voice spoke to her. "You must go home," he said, hoarsely. "It's over." She started up. "Have they found" "Yes. Go home at once." He turned away, and she hurried from the spot with bowed head.
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