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If the balance of classes is such a blessed thing, the sooner we get the balance equal, the better; for it's rather lopsided just now, no one can deny. So, representative institutions are the talismanic palladium of the nation, are they?
'When he shows his light, said Venus, keeping watch upon his dusky figure all the time, 'drop lower and keep closer. He went on again, and they followed again. Gaining the top of the Mound, he turned on his light but only partially and stood it on the ground. A bare lopsided weatherbeaten pole was planted in the ashes there, and had been there many a year.
It builds the dunes into new shapes every day, and the sagebrush is always bent and lopsided and torn, and the colors are the gray and brown of the world's secret tragedy. But when the red sunset is on the dunes there's nothing I have ever seen so wild and passionate and beautiful. "It was late in the autumn.
I made some excuse or other and got away. Once in the store-room, I sat down on my cot and stayed there a long time, feeling queerer than anything. I read a chapter in the Bible, I don't know why. After I'd got my boots off I sat with them in my hands for as much as an hour, I guess, staring at the oil-tank and its lopsided shadow on the wall. I tell you, sir, I was shocked.
The tree planted in the shrubbery will grow all lopsided; the bushes on the edge of the cliff will be shorn away on the windward side by the teeth of the south-western gale, and will lean over northwards, on the side of least resistance. And so we all are apt to content ourselves with doing the good things that are easiest for us, or that fit into our temperament and character.
But they were too tloubled and sad, too awfully burdened: they had no chance at all. Such a queer, unnatulal feeling it gives me to lead of all that world: I can't desclibe it; all their motives seem so tainted, their life so lopsided. Tluely, the whole head was sick, and the whole heart faint. 'Yes, she interrupted, 'that is tlue: but there must have been some cause!
It was a very ugly bush indeed; that is, so far as any thing in nature can be really ugly. It was lopsided having on the one hand a stunted stump or two, while on the other a huge heavy branch swept down to the gravel-walk. It had a crooked gnarled trunk or stem, hollow enough to entice any weak-minded bird to build a nest there only it was so near to the ground, and also to the garden gate.
"Didn't I say I'd pay you for spilling the cold water on me?" cried Sneak, in a convulsion of laughter. "Why didn't you tell me, you rascal?" cried Joe, flushed in the face, and forgetting the Indians in his increasing anger. "Oh, I'll laugh myself sore ha! ha! ha!" continued Sneak, sitting down on the snow, and laughing obstreperously. "You long, lopsided scoundrel, you.
"He grinned a kind of lopsided grin, like he had a lemon in his mouth, and commenced to cuss the horse for tryin' to climb a pine tree. "'I knew 'twas some Bible outrage or other, he says. 'There's more Bible names in this forsaken sand heap than there is Christians, a good sight. When I meet a man with a Bible name and chin whiskers I hang on to my watch.
It was furnished with discarded patent rockers, lopsided reed chairs, a scratched pine table, a gritty straw mat, old steel engravings of milkmaids being morally amorous under willow-trees, faded chromos of roses and fish, and a kerosene stove for warming lunches. The front window was darkened by torn net curtains and by a mound of geraniums and rubber-plants. While she was listening to Mrs.
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