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On the one hand, it was vigorously contended that it was free, and that any attempt to limit the power of the province was uncalled for, was an attempt to petrify its laws, and to revive the coercion which Sir Wilfrid Laurier himself had denounced and defeated in 1896.
I can conceive of nothing more overpoweringly terrible to an unsuspecting family of birds than the sudden appearance above their domicile of the head and neck of this arch-enemy. It is enough to petrify the blood in their veins.
'Or she will take out her Gorgon's head in the midst, and petrify her subjects! Maybe it will be safest to prepare her. You see, such discipline reigns here, that a poor Bohemian like me doesn't know where to be. Accordingly, Edgar said in his airy way, 'O Mettie, by-the-by, we have put in a part for little Miss Knevett. 'Indeed! I thought it was to be all among ourselves.
Benevolence, when Simeon Brown spoke of it, seemed the grimmest and unloveliest of Gorgons; for his mind seemed to resemble those fountains which petrify everything that falls into them.
Did you succeed in getting Mrs. Tutt to change her mind about honoring the festivities?" "Oh, yes, she just wanted to be persuaded some. It's a mighty dried-up mind that can't leaf out in a change onct in a while, and it's mostly men folks that take a notion, then petrify to stone in it. But you all oughter see what is a-going on down the Road."
I can remember putting my lips to the dent on the little ruffled pillow, where his head had lain, and swearing that I would have my revenge. "That night turned me to stone; every tender feeling seemed to petrify.
The direct influence of slavery is to debase, to make barbarous, to petrify; I know as well as though I saw it that the South must be full of neglected, perishing objects, cast out to perish in their sicknesses. You doubtless are acquainted, dear Aunty, with the great change in the mode of reasoning introduced by Lord Bacon.
I beard a crunching of gravel. Even as I wheeled I felt a tremendous pull on the lasso and I seemed to be sailing in the air. I got a blurred glimpse of Herky-Jerky leaning back on the taut lasso. Then I plunged down, slid over the rocks, and went souse into the spring. Down, down I plunged, and the shock of the icy water seemed to petrify me.
A storm of tears gushed from her eyes, but in a moment, as if scorning her own weakness, she drove them back into her heart. "Poor Italian," she said, in a soft, low tone "poor child of the South, what are you doing in this cold North, amongst these frosty hearts whose icy smiles petrify art and beauty?
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.
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