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Updated: May 16, 2025
But these, they wait not to hear the joyful shout, or heart-rending moan to know if hope deferred be at length joyful certainty, or bitter only half-expected woe. We dread a postman. Our hand shook, as we last year paid the man of many destinies his demanded Christmas box.
A terrible and heart-rending calamity in any case, enough to break the heart of all Egypt; and it did break the heart of Egypt, and the proud heart of Pharaoh himself, and they let the people go. But this was a RELIGIOUS affliction too. Most of these first-born children probably all the first-born of the priests and nobles, and of Pharaoh himself were consecrated to some god.
I had never known such a heart-rending exhibition of grief. But the sorrow of these friends of Aumia was not genuine. It could not be; it was too dramatic. When they left the house the mourners laughed and lit cigarettes and pipes.
He is not altogether mad is he?" cried Louise, in a heart-rending tone, "He will come to himself it is only momentary " "Morel, my friend," said Rudolph, "we are here. Your daughter is alongside of you; she is innocent." "Thirteen hundred francs," said the artisan, without looking at Rudolph, and continuing his imaginary occupation.
Their neighing, and snorting, and bellowing blend The horses and cattle; The chariot-wheels rattle, As down to the valley they take their mad way; And even the forest where life seems to move, The eagle, and falcon, and hawk soar above, And flutter their pinions, in heaven's bright ray. In search of repose From my heart-rending woes, Oh, where shall my sad spirit flee?
You cruel, unnatural child," cried the mother. "Out of my sight, boy," said his father, in low, threatening tones. "Oh, father! what do you mean? Let me tell you how it was." "Begone, sir!" and the enraged man gave poor Willie a blow which sent him reeling into the hall. Staggering up to his room and throwing himself on the bed, he wailed forth, in heart-rending tones: "Oh, mother, mother!
Kathleen, however, sat down beside her sister, and the matter was soon forgotten in the stir and bustle which preceded the setting out of the funeral. This was indeed a trying and heart-rending scene.
Not, Heaven knows, from the interest I can now attach to them; but because, like a drowning man who catches at a brittle twig, I seize every apology for delaying the subsequent and dreadful part of my narrative. But it must be communicated: I must have the sympathy of at least one friend under this heart-rending calamity.
"Perhaps you have only ordered it to be committed." With a wild gesture she raised her arms to heaven, and cried in a heart-rending voice, "O God, O God! He believes it! he really believes it!" There followed great silence, dismal, formidable silence, such as in nature follows the crash of the thunderbolt.
I was as helpless as an infant in the hands of my father and my mother!" she panted, in a voice that was the more heart-rending from half suppression. "Valerie! love! wife!" murmured Volaski, in low and tender tones, as he essayed to take her hand. But she snatched it from him hastily, gasping: "Do not speak to me in that way! Do not call me love or wife!"
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