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There were some hundreds of these recruits much under twenty; but the poor fellows, exhilarated by their new uniform and large pay, were going gaily to decide their fate by that hazard which puts youth and age on a level, and scatters with indiscriminating hand the cypress and the laurel.
Jasmine and Daisy became quite merry. An indiscriminating observer would have said: "How shocking to hear such merry laughter their mother has only been dead a month." But Mrs. Ellsworthy had far too kind a heart to do these children such an injustice.
Victor has a preference for Hunsden, full as strong as I deem desirable, being considerably more potent decided, and indiscriminating, than any I ever entertained for that personage myself.
It seemed enormously unreasonable to us that two people who had come to the pitch of easy and confident affection and happiness that held between us should be obliged to part and shun one another, or murder half the substance of their lives. We felt ourselves crushed and beaten by an indiscriminating machine which destroys happiness in the service of jealousy.
Beset by the national vice of flowery embellishment, they were also pardonably ignorant of savage life, and had an indiscriminating thirst for the marvelous.
We have at least two accounts of his death one in Latin from a colleague, one in Scots by his old servitor and secretary; and the latter seems to have the merit of admiring and indiscriminating faithfulness. It is often said that such death-bed narratives are worthless, unless judged by the light thrown upon them from the previous life. It is true.
"Why, what are you?" At this juncture Uncle Dan felt it imperatively necessary to interpose again. "That's San Clemente," he observed, indicating an island half-a-mile away, composed, apparently, of red brick and window-glass. "How lovely!" May exclaimed; and the indiscriminating response betrayed inattention. "What are you?" she asked again.
"Once," said the Major, from behind the morning paper, "I was in politics, meself. I ran for coroner an' got two whole votes me own an' the undertaker's. It's because the public's so indiscriminating that I've not run for anything since except th' street-car." "But it's a big game," said Uncle John, standing at the window with his hands deep in his pockets; "and an important game.
Jimmy raised his arm to resist a second assault, and Alfred veered off in the direction of the officer, who stepped aside just in time to avoid similar demonstration from the indiscriminating young father. Finding a wide circle prescribed about himself and the babies, Alfred suddenly stopped and gazed about from one astonished face to the other.
So henceforth he was on the same side with the Squire, held by an indiscriminating world as bound to the same negations, the same hostilities! The thought roused in him a sudden fierceness of moral repugnance. The Squire and Edward Langham they were the only sceptics of whom he had ever had close and personal experience.
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