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Our first impression was of a vast framework stiffened and shrunken into the peculiar petrifaction of age; our second, of a Jove-like wealth of iron-gray beard and hair; our third, of eyes, wide, clear, and tired with looking out on a century of the world's time. His movements, as he laid one side his axe and passed a great, gnarled hand across his forehead, were angular and slow.
Brimmer, worthy of the Jove-like Quincy Brimmer; another Queen of Love and Beauty like like" continued the gallant Senor, with an effective oratorical pause, and a profound obeisance to Miss Keene, "like one whose mantling maiden blushes forbid me to name?"
After it comes the annual election of officers. I fancy Malone may know of a man who might grace the directorate with a more deferential humility than I show when he speaks Jove-like from the head of the table." "To be ousted from that board would mean to wear the brand of defeat." "If Mr. Malone wants to put some one else in my place he can do it the chair I occupy faces the window.
He seized upon the single point in Jill's behavior that still constituted a grievance. "There was no need for you to go to supper with the man!" Jove-like wrath had ebbed away to something deplorably like a querulous grumble. "You should have gone straight home. You must have known how anxious I would be about you." "Well, really, Derek, dear! You didn't seem so very anxious!
The responsibility rests with you women. You can not only make men lie, but you can make them believe that there is no such thing as truth in the universe. Isn't it so, Lenox?" Mr. Lenox smiled and nodded, Jove-like. "Oh, yes, they pull some strings," he said; "but don't cocker them up too much. Don't make them think we are nothing but clay in their hands."
The janitor eyed young Jenkins with pained dignity. "Didn't I say the Rooshin captain was a small, a very small man? Rooshins is small, likewise Greeks." A noble enthusiasm beamed in the faces of the youthful heroes. "Was Barlow as large as me?" asked C. F. Hall Golightly, lifting his curls from his Jove-like brow. "Yes; but then he hed hed, so to speak, experiences.
One instant genial smiles overspread his expressive countenance, whereon the faintest emotion writes its legend with instantaneous and responsive touch; the next, on occasion, a Jove-like sternness settles on his face, and, with a facility of expression bewildering to less gifted tongues, scathing invective, cutting sarcasm, or bitter irony impress upon an offender the gravity of a breach of discipline.
Colonel Forney crossed the Atlantic with him when Peabody was in his seventy-first year, and here is what Forney says: "I sat on one side of the cabin and he on the other. He was reading from a book, which he finally merely held in his hands, as he sat idly dreaming. I was melted into tears by the sight of his Jove-like head framed against the window.
The English language is the richest in the world, and yet somehow in moments when words count most we generally choose the wrong ones. The adjective "cross" as a description of his Jove-like wrath that consumed his whole being jarred upon Derek profoundly. It was as though Prometheus, with the vultures tearing his liver, had been asked if he were piqued. "Cross!" The cab rolled on.
To support this second family, of whose existence not a soul in his immediate surroundings knew a thing, burdened him with a care that made it hard for him to preserve his cheerful, Jove-like disposition. He had been leading a double life for fourteen years.
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