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I can get a sight of that every day; and now and then I can get a look into the bay, and Weymouth looking like the old time. That was his first sorrowful intonation; but the next had the freshness of his age, 'And there are thistles! 'Thistles?
"We don't take what don't belong to us." "Cow-bells, for instance," put in Bill's hired hand, with a provoking intonation. Jim stopped and his face twisted with rage; Ike paused a little farther on down the path. Jim came closer. "Say, I know what you're driving at and you're a liar, and for a leather cent I'd lick you like hell!" "You can't do it. You don't weigh enough."
"Yes, I see," Lingard replied with a surprisingly confidential intonation. "But power, too, is in the hands of a great leader." Mrs. Travers watched the faint movements of Daman's nostrils as though the man were suffering from some powerful emotion, while under her fingers Lingard's forearm in its white sleeve was as steady as a limb of marble.
The speaker pronounced the last words with an intonation which added to their force; and his face wore a singular expression, full of gravity and significance. Another of the company rose hastily, and, with some appearance of alarm, prepared to take his leave.
Contrary to the usual theory respecting the production of a great dramatic effect, he declares that the grand scene between the prophet and Fides in the third act, where John of Leyden, by the sheer force of intonation of voice and play of feature, forces his mother to retract her recognition of him and to fall at his feet, was created, so to speak, by Madame Viardot and himself on the inspiration of the moment and without any preliminary conference or arrangement.
Perhaps it was the disquieted gray eyes in the lean leathery face, or the thin-lipped mouth that I had seen close so foxly after some sanctimonious speech, or the voice which, when not savage with recrimination, could take on a sustained and calculated intonation of appeal, perhaps these things aroused my interest as well as my disgust.
"Gramercy!" said the Lord Scales, in a somewhat affected intonation of voice, "the conjunction of the bear and the young lion is a parlous omen, for the which I could much desire we had a wise astrologer's reading." "It is said," observed one of the courtiers, "that the Duke of Clarence much affects either the lands or the person of the Lady Isabel."
He couldn't help this: the time, the place, the girl inspired, indeed incited, one to banality. "Why?" she persisted. "Oh, you know." He caught the intonation of her previous words precisely. She had the grace to blush and hang her head; but he received a thrilling sidelong glance. "Ah... aren't you awful to talk that way, Mr. Duncan?" "Yes," he admitted meekly.
He heard her say, a little unsteadily with a sort of fluttering intonation which made him think suddenly of a butterfly's flight: "You used to tell your your simple and and professional tales very well at one time. Or well enough to interest me. You had a a sort of art in the days the days before the war." "Really?" he said, with involuntary gloom.
He looked from one face to another. "She's a Corner," said Mrs. Britling. "Well," said Mr. Direck, and hesitated for a moment. It was so delightful that one couldn't go on being just discreet. The atmosphere was free and friendly. His intonation disarmed offence. And he gave the young lady the full benefit of a quite expressive eye. "I'm very pleased to meet you, Cousin Corner.
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