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Updated: June 23, 2025
Ishmael, his heart turning cold within him, remembered how he had lied to the Parson about that evening's meeting, how he lied to his mother many times a day for the sake of ease; remembered how he and Jacka's John-Willy had pored over a snail which they had unearthed in the act of laying her eggs.
The final total was twelve hundred and ninety-three pounds seventeen and sixpence! Thirteen hundred pounds for clothes in eight weeks! No, the thing was a cheat, a mistake. They had sent her somebody else's bill. She had not had half these things. She read the first page, her heart beating violently as she pored over the figures, her eyes dim and clouded with the trouble of her brain.
He spent a part of every day with Elizabeth, and the remainder of his time was completely engrossed by the work over which she, too, the presiding genius, pored eagerly. Together they humoured many of Beatrice's whims, treating her very much as an unexpected protegée, a position with which she seemed entirely content. She made friends with the utmost facility.
Why should she? But it was hard to have hunted a bubble for years, and have it break in his hand at last. "Set not your affections on things on the earth," murmured Yeo to himself, as he pored over his Bible, in the vain hope of forgetting his little maid. But why did Amyas wish to increase the distance between himself and Ayacanora? Many reasons might be given: I deny none of them.
Every night we pored over our map and laid plans for our escape the following week when we would be put on night shift; but before the week was up I was put on a different job. Instead of shovelling coke I was set to filling small cars with coal. This took me away from the boys, and at first I was very much discouraged.
Bowed heads and narrowed eyes pored over open text-books, and a strained and unnatural silence hung over the room. Even in the ten-minute recess only whispers could be heard, and most of the heads kept on over their books. "Sally's Aunt Jane's poll parrot," Phyllis whispered. "I haven't a chance in a thousand of passing math.
He used up an inordinate amount of soap and quite a lot of elbow-grease, but when he had finished the wood looked as if it had just been newly cut and trimmed. What took my attention about it was that it was covered from end to end with queer little marks or scratches. These seemed to interest Bryce very much, for he pored over them like an antiquary who has discovered a new kind of hieroglyphics.
By the bloody hand, as all the great possessions in this world have been gained and inherited, he had succeeded to the legacy, the richest that mortal man ever could receive. He pored over the inscrutable sentences, and wondered, when he should succeed in reading one, if it might summon up a subject-fiend, appearing with thunder and devilish demonstrations.
Such beautiful Bibles she had never seen; she pored in ecstasy over their varieties of type and binding, and was very evidently in love with them all. "Now, Ellen," said Mrs. Montgomery, "look and choose; take your time, and see which you like best." It was not likely that Ellen's "time" would be a short one.
Sam Clemens, propped up in bed, pored over it through long evenings, and nightly made fabulous fortunes collecting cocoa and other rare things resolving, meantime, to start in person for the upper Amazon with no unnecessary delay. Boy and man, Samuel Clemens was the same. His vision of grand possibilities ahead blinded him to the ways and means of arrival.
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