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So a man becomes the slave of his own lusts, of his indulged tastes, which rise above all restraints and carry away all before them, like the Euphrates in flood. Fertility is turned to barrenness; a foul deposit of mud overlays the soil; houses on the sand are washed away; corpses float on the tawny wave.
The works of the stone-cutter and the carver remain under the eyes; but for us it is not to complain when the plasterer blots out the last trace of our hands, and appropriates our work to himself; when he overlays it, and smooths it, and colors it. "Not from regard for the opinion of others, but from respect for himself, the mason will be faithful in his calling.
The things which offend her sensibilities are the wilful exaggeration of the characters, and the jests which are so elaborately constructed that "the very theme itself disappears under the mass of embroidery which overlays it."
They never had a chance to overlay me like a mother overlays her baby and kills it." "Not 'like a mother overlays, but 'as a mother overlays," returned Kitty with a queer note to her voice. "That's what they taught me at school. The teacher was always picking us up on that kind of thing. I said a thing worse than that when Mrs. Crozier" her fingers motioned towards another room "came to-day.
Accordingly, we put on our crampons about 3 p.m. and struck camp, securely packing the two green tents on the sledges, and casting a careful eye round the loads, tightened a strap here, hitched there, and then led by Scott we made a careful descent to the precipitous edge of the ice cap which overlays the promontory.
And as when some skilful man overlays gold upon silver one that Hephaestus and Pallas Athene have taught all manner of craft, and full of grace is his handiwork even so did Athene shed grace about his head and shoulders.
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