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At the word "friendship" the young man flinched uncontrollably. Was the whole diabolical world in league to spring out and make friends with him? "Unfortunately," he said, with his iciest bow, "my time is entirely engrossed by my work."
The most empty of your many ostentatious orchestral soliloquies, the most feeble of your many piano-pyrotechnics, the iciest of your bouquets of icy, exploding stars, the brassiest of your blatant perorations, the very falsest of your innumerable paste jewels, declare that you were born to sit among the great ones of your craft. For they reveal you the indubitable virtuosic genius.
That night one of the coldest of the winter, the roads at their iciest she walked more than half a mile to and from the prayer-meeting. It is difficult for those who are not conversant with the case to believe it, yet there is no illusion in it.
Miss Channing was the oldest teacher on the staff, and taught the fifth grade. She was short and stout and jolly; nothing, not even the iciest reserve, ever daunted Miss Channing. "Isn't it good to think of two whole blessed months of freedom?" she said jubilantly. "Two months to dream, to be lazy, to go where one pleases, no exercises to correct, no reports to make, no pupils to keep in order.
One lake in particular now comes to mind which illustrates the floweriness of the sun-touched banks of these icy gems. Close up under the shadow of the Sierra Matterhorn, on the eastern slope of the range, lies one of the iciest of these glacier lakes at an elevation of about 12,000 feet.
Who would not battle with the iciest blast of the north if out of storm and snow he could bring back to his chamber the germs of the 'Winterreise? Who would grudge the moisture of his eyes if he could render it immortal in the strains of Schubert's 'Lob der Thrâne?"
Spring comes at last, the fated prince, to free with glittering spear these enchanted beauties; the waning glacier, slowly receding, lies conquered before their liberated feet; and still the fountain plays. Who can despair before the iciest human life, when its unconscious symbols are so beautiful?
Douglass, I ask your pardon for the angry words I spoke to you that day." The gentleman addressed kept his full bright eyes fixed on Dr. Van Anden, and answered him in the quietest and at the same time iciest of tones: "You are certainly very kind, now that your anger has had time to cool during these ten years, to accord to me the merit of being possibly sincere.
When Faussel came in he was still yawning behind his fist obviously a low morning-sugar type. "Before you fall on your face, go out and get some coffee," Brion said. "Two cups. I'll have a cup too." "That won't be necessary," Faussel said, drawing himself up stiffly. "I'll call the canteen if you wish some." He said it in the iciest tone he could manage this early in the morning.
'Red-haired, stuck-up, saucy thing, she thought, 'how I should like to give her a piece of my mind before I leave this place, if I only dared! 'I don't need any help, thank you, she said aloud, in her iciest manner. 'But it will only make your head ache to bend over and tug away at that valise, and I'll be only too glad to do it. 'I've no doubt of that, responded Laura, meaningly.
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