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As these thoughts were crossing his mind, a harsh bark was heard to the left of the footpath, and a jackal was seen emerging from a large grove of lentisks. Regarding the two wayfarers with manifest uneasiness, the beast took up its position at the foot of a rock, more than thirty feet in height.

Those who had been so harsh to Gervaise were now quite lenient toward Virginie. Gervaise had previously heard numerous reports about Lantier's affairs with all sorts of girls on the street and they had bothered her so little that she hadn't even felt enough resentment to break off the affair.

And I pray that your death-doom may tarry for you who abide." Bess replied: "Daughter, to thy father go back with good cheer; nor imprecate swift death upon us, nor let choler shake thy bosom. For often has a woman, harsh at first and hard to a wooer, yielded the second time."

Tracey was called by the people of Tebuan, was not only a mistress but a friend a friend who spoke their own harsh, guttural language as well as one of themselves, a friend whose dead husband had been the friend of old Gurden, whose memory was still cherished by every grown person in Arrecifos as the white man, the white man who had lived so long among them, and who had married one of their own people.

Already the great plane was swooping downward toward the beach, hardly a mile away, when a harsh shout escaped the man. "Look! Canoes! My God what " As the drive of the Pauillac opened up the concave of the sand and brought its whole length to view, Stern and the girl suddenly became aware of trouble. There, strung along the beach irregularly, they all at once made out ten, twenty, thirty boats.

Suppose that Weir knows this instant where he is and can produce him as a witness in court." "I reckon in this county his testimony wouldn't count for much," Burkhardt, who had been sheriff, stated, with a harsh laugh. Sorenson, however, was impressed by the Judge's reasoning, for he drummed with fingers on the desk and sat in brooding silence.

'Here, beldam, deyvil's kind, growled the harsh voice of Dirk Hatteraick from the inside of his den, 'what makest thou there? 'Laying the roughies to keep the cauld wind frae you, ye desperate do-nae-good. Ye're e'en ower weel off, and wotsna; it will be otherwise soon. 'Have you brought me the brandy, and any news of my people? said Dirk Hatteraick. 'There's the flask for ye.

The sharp distinctions and inequalities of life seem so harsh and unjust; the wide intervals which separate those who have from those who have not seem so unfair, that in all ages and in all countries men have tried to devise schemes for social equality, equality of power, opportunity, and achievement.

This seems at first sight harsh treatment; but one soon remembers that it was the custom of an Oriental feast to offer the guest at his entrance a robe fit for the occasion. "Bring forth the best robe," says the father of the prodigal, "and put it on him." This man had had offered to him the opportunity of personal preparation and had refused it.

Margaret laughed outright and her laughter was so inoffensive and so musical that the Chief Inspector laughed also. "That's more hopeless than ever!" she said. "Poor Sir Lucien had strong, harsh features and rather small eyes. He wore a moustache, too. But Sir Lucien, I feel sure, was one of Kazmah's clients." "Ah!" said Kerry.