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I believe she would petrify me if I had to bear them. Don't you give Medusa one of those sweet almonds, Daisy, not one, do you hear?" I heard too well. I faced round upon him and begged him to remember that it was my mother I must obey in Miss Pinshon's orders; and said that he must not talk to me.
The terrible, ruthless smile, the glittering eyes of doom seemed literally to petrify the renegade. The hunter's right arm rose slowly. The knife in his hand quivered as if with eagerness. The long blade, dripping with Deering's blood, pointed toward the hilltop. "Look thar! See 'em! Thar's yer friends!" cried Wetzel.
So long as they continue to live and change, to expand and deepen, to be filled with new harmony and new suggestion, we may rest content; we are still growing. At the moment we think we have comprehended them, at the moment we see them as stationary things, we may be sure something is wrong; we are beginning to petrify. Our fresh interest in life has been arrested.
He was full, in those days, of raw enthusiasms, which he forced on any one who would listen when his first shyness had worn off. You can't picture him spouting sentimental poetry, can you? Yet I've seen him petrify a whole group of Mrs. Lanfear's callers by suddenly discharging on them, in the strident drawl of Western New York, "Barbara Frietchie" or "The Queen of the May."
"Quite as long as I expected longer than I meant it to be," he answered rather thoughtfully. "Mr. Carleton," said Constance sidling up in front of him, "I have been in distress to ask you a question, and I am afraid " "Of what are you afraid, Miss Constance?" "That you would reward me with one of your severe looks, which would petrify me, and then I am afraid I should feel uncomfortable "
Then was established a code framed with almost diabolical ingenuity to extinguish natural affection to foster perfidy and hypocrisy to petrify conscience to perpetuate brutal ignorance to facilitate the work of tyranny by rendering the vices of slavery inherent and natural in the Irish character, and to make Protestantism almost irredeemably odious as the monstrous incarnation of all moral perversions."
Before we knew which way to turn next, my lady came in, hearing my voice in her daughter's sitting-room, and wondering what had happened. The news of the loss of the Diamond seemed to petrify her. She went straight to Miss Rachel's bedroom, and insisted on being admitted. Miss Rachel let here in. The alarm, running through the house like fire, caught the two gentlemen next. Mr.
I don't learn much from our senators, or great lawyers, great doctors, professors, members of governing bodies that lot. Policy seems to petrify their minds when they 've got on an eminence. Now explain it, if you can. 'Responsibility has a certain effect on them, no doubt, said Weyburn. 'Eminent station among men doesn't give a larger outlook.
Paisley's scheme was to petrify 'em with wonderful relations of events that he had either come across personally or in large print. I think he must have got his idea of subjugation from one of Shakespeare's shows I see once called 'Othello. There is a coloured man in it who acquires a duke's daughter by disbursing to her a mixture of the talk turned out by Rider Haggard, Lew Dockstader, and Dr.
This is best accomplished by approaching truth in as many ways and from as many sides as possible. Another precaution for the critic who would retain clearness of vision is the avoidance of abstract systems, which petrify and hinder the necessary flexibility of mind. Coolness of temper is also enjoined and scrupulously practiced.
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