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Updated: May 14, 2025
Of this readjustment period, Clarence Hawkes, the well-known blind naturalist who lost his eyesight at the age of fifteen, says: "the loss of eyesight seems, for a time, to upset the perfect working of the nervous system. The nerves have to adjust themselves to new conditions, and rearrange the channels of communication.
Mildred knew everything, without ever leaving her room, or leaving, at least, that little salon of their own, at the pension, which she had made so pretty by simply lying there, at the window that had the view of the bay and of Vesuvius, and telling Kate how to arrange and rearrange everything.
The angry passions which had been roused led the English directors to take the very wise step of sending out two representatives one from each of the old companies to rearrange all matters and settle all disputes. The two delegates were Nicholas Garry, the Vice-Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Simon McGillivray, who bore one of the most influential names of the Nor'-Wester traders.
He stood still for a moment behind a huge clump of tall sunflowers and gaudy dahlias to recover his breath and rearrange his coat, which had been mishandled quite a good deal by his friends in the excess of their joy.
I did not care for it enough to repeat it to you, and I fear we shall find it very bad." Stopping often to recall and rearrange words and lines, Ian completed at last the following sonnet:
Duke always spoke curtly; to-night his heavy voice was as sharp as an axe. "Been late a good deal lately." Nan laid her hat on the table and, glancing composedly from one suspicious face to the other, put her hands up to rearrange her hair. "I'm going to try to do better. I'll go out and get my supper if you've had yours." She started toward the dining-room. "Hold on!"
That which placed his European fame on a solid basis was the production of "Il Barbiere di Seviglia" at Rome during the carnival season of 1816. Years before Rossini had thought of setting the sparkling comedy of Beaumarchais to music, and Sterbini, the author of the libretto used by Paisiello, had proposed to rearrange the story.
He had no opinion at all of the Montenegrin Government, and poured out a torrent of plans for its reform. He was all for peace, he said, and wanted to rearrange all the world which badly needed it. I little thought what would be his fate when I wished him goodbye, and promised to look him up next year.
"I will lead you to the loving Father in Heaven who cares for us all as if we were His children; but not now you must rest and neither talk nor hear of anything that can excite your fevered blood. Now I will rearrange the pillow under your head. Mary will wet a fresh compress and then you must try to sleep." "I cannot," replied Selene, while Hannah shook her pillows and arranged them carefully.
They were invited guests of the Greek, and they had no more right to object to his other guests or to rearrange his house rules than would you have the right, when a guest in a strange club, to reprimand the servants.
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