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The huntsman then withdrew the hounds from the throttled stag, and on his knee presented his knife to a fair female form, on a white palfrey, whose terror, or perhaps her compassion, had till then kept her at some distance.
It is presented under various forms, and when stated in a persuasive manner, is next to the argument from design, probably as popular as any.
I have realised that all our technical books are written and presented in too dry a fashion. They don't make the most of themselves. Very often the situation implied is intensely sensational, and if set out after the fashion of an up-to-date newspaper, would be wonderfully effective.
Its outward appearance presented a dark and forbidding aspect. The heart of the beholder would contract within him as he gazed upon those ruins of fallen greatness, as they reposed before him, dark and deserted, like an evil omen in his path.
But in all the multitude there was not one man or woman who knew the name of the individual to whom the face belonged, and there were few who would have risked the respectability of their social position by making the acquaintance of a man so evidently poor, even if the occasion had presented itself.
The old farms had been cut up into blocks; but while they were waiting for some one to come along and build them up, the thrifty Germans had turned them into market gardens, and they presented a very pretty appearance. They could see the small clusters of houses on Long Island, and the end of Blackwell's Island, a terrible place to them.
Who could be otherwise than powerfully affected, as I was, by the first objects that presented themselves to me on entering the place? A mother and her two sons, kneeling in pious devotion at the foot of the husband's and the father's grave!
This seemed well recommended, even if the name of the author hadn't been a strong recommendation in itself. A faded legend on a fly-leaf showed that the book had been "Presented to Edward Rogers, on his Fourteenth Birthday, Jan'y 21st, 1852, By his Uncle Daniel." I took that book back to the kitchen. The Professor had a lamp burning on the table beside him, and I sat down in its light.
For a long time there was silence. The reasons were clear in Nahoum's mind why he should not act yet. A new factor had changed the equation which had presented itself a short half hour ago. A new factor had also entered into the equation which had been presented to David by Kaid with so flattering an insistence.
Meanwhile, the Admiral had made out and presented to me my acting order; while, for my own part, I had been busy all day and every day, either at the dockyard, superintending the work being done to the Wasp, or in hunting up a crew for her.
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