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He lifted his arm as he spoke; but, as though she guessed his intention, she sprang out of his reach. "No!" she said, in a voice concentrated with passion. "I am not going to die like that. Stafford can shoot his wife down like a piece of blind cattle if he thinks fit but not you. I won't die by your hand, Steven. I hate you too much." "Hush!" he exclaimed. "The account between us is settled."
A number of bells were attached to the harness of the horses, and to a bow-shaped piece of wood that arched over the head of the central horse. "This is an improvement on the post-waggons, Stephanie," Julian said. The child nodded brightly.
He obtained an unoccupied piece of land fit for planting, and, not far from the school, laid out a school-garden. This pleased the teacher, and the children willingly took part in the task, for they had soon learned to like their new minister, who came and worked amongst them.
Our patience was to be severely exercised. We were all so hungry that Charley consented to serve out a small piece of biscuit to each of us, just to stay our appetites; but that produced a very transient effect. At first I saw him tightening his waist-belt; then I had to tighten mine, as Harry did his.
I have placed under the first microscope a piece of this weed which is just sending out young seaweeds in the shape of tiny cells, with lashes very like those we saw coming from the moss-flower, and I have pressed them in the position in which they would naturally leave the plant.
"I set a clay head that was like him on the shoulders of the fat Silenus near the gate, that had lost its own head. It was my first piece of independent work." "But you did it to vex my father." "Certainly not, Selene; I was delighted with the joke and nothing more." "But you knew how touchy he is." "And does a wild boy of fifteen ever reflect on the consequences of his audacity?
A piece of hose was attached to the spout of the pump, and carried to the door of the cabin; and by means of this water was still poured in. But this contrivance proved unavailing. The mouth of the hose could not be got into the hatch, as it was impossible any longer to enter the cabin, and the water was spilled on the floor. It so chanced that the stern of the vessel sat high.
As the visitor stands before this fragment of a stupendous piece of sculpture, he may recall to mind the points in the career of Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
Now and then he would steal a look at my wife Beatrix, or at one or the other of my three daughters, and again gaze out at the sea beyond the open window, as though trying to piece it all together into one picture. But it was not until the womenfolk had risen and retired that he unlocked his thoughts to me. And I hold even now that his first question was a curious one.
They were unbroken, and much slighter than any others found there. Between the plates was the fragment of a piece of cotton cord which had attached one of the plates to the ear.
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