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There he wished to remain, twittering happily, giving now and then a sweet, little, tremulous trill, indicative of content, warmth, and drowsiness; if I dared to move ever so little, showing by a sharp scratch from his claws that he preferred absolute quiet.
Halle asked Chopin about Liszt, but the reticent answer he got was indicative rather of dislike than of anything else. When in 1842 Lenz took lessons from Chopin, the latter defined his relations with Liszt thus: "We are friends, we were comrades." What he meant by the first half of the statement was, no doubt: "Now we meet only on terms of polite acquaintanceship."
At different points the turns of the road brought to view the panorama of the town below and the calm sweep of the bay. "Exquisite, isn't it?" I said at last, with an indicative wave of the hand. "What's the good of anything being exquisite when you feel mouldy?" "It may help to charm away the mouldiness. Beauty is eternal and mouldiness only temporal.
Very indicative of the coming cardiac insufficiency is the inability to lie at night on the left side. The pressure of the body, especially if the person is stout, interferes with the heart action and causes dyspnea and distress.
There were few of the natives present who were not more or less marked with it, and it was no doubt, indicative of mourning. Some of the men, however, were painted with red and yellow ochre, with which it was evident to me they had besmeared themselves since our appearance, most likely in preparing for the combat in which they fancied they would be engaged.
With which definition Miss Fanny clenched her handsome little hand, and made a gesture therewith, in the direction of Miss Sallianna, indicative of hostility, and a desire to engage in instant combat.
The terms earth, air, fire and water had to be taken in a wide sense: earth meaning all that was of the nature of earth, air all that was of the nature of air and so on. Thus, in the human frame, the bones and sinews pertained to earth. The four qualities of matter hot, cold, moist and dry were indicative of the presence of the four elements.
A writer of good authority has left us an account of the interview which followed between the envoy of the Persian monarch and the victorious Roman. So to act is not to act manfully, but is indicative rather of levity and weakness; for it is to suppose that our inferiors can never be of any service to us, and that therefore we had bettor get rid of them.
There are the gushing young ladies who, having read "David Copperfield," have thereupon sought out a small, longhaired dog of nondescript breed, possessed of an irritating habit of criticising a man's trousers, and of finally commenting upon the same by a sniff indicative of contempt and disgust. Then there are the old ladies who worship a fat poodle, scant of breath and full of fleas.
The Sibilla Libica has crossed her knees, an action universally held amongst the ancients as indicative of reticence or secrecy, and of power to bind.
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