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And the rose reddens in my very face, to spite me!" "Is 'ordinary human nature' typified by a thorn? You give it rather a poor character." "I never heard of a thorn that didn't bear an excellent character," said Constance, gravely. "Hush!" said Fleda, laughing; "I don't want to hear about Mr. Thorn. Tell me of somebody else." "I haven't said a word about Mr.
Finally, the countryman who feels discontented with his lot and there are few indeed who do not occasionally pine for a change of employment should go on a railway journey through "the black country" at night, and mark the fierce light that reddens the murky skies as the factory fires send forth their livid flames and clouds of sooty smoke.
"Good Lord! what sudden glare is that that reddens all the sky, As though hell's legions rode the air and tossed their torches high! Up, men! the alarm drum beats to arms! and the solid ground seems riven By the shock of warring thunderbolts in the lurid depth of heaven!
"Where the apple reddens." "Oh, but everybody's there." "You mean all married people." "Married and single." "But married people more than single." "I mean that we all have our illusions, and we'd better keep them as long as possible. When we don't " "We lose our Edens." "Exactly." "So that our Edens are no more than a sort of fool's paradise."
The story of western settlement is not that dreadful story of continual wars with Indians which reddens the pages of eastern colonies. The French were gay people. They loved to dance and hunt and spend their time in amusements.
Datchery drops some money, stoops to pick it up, and reddens with the exertion as he asks: 'How do you know the young gentleman's name? 'I asked him for it, and he told it me. I only asked him the two questions, what was his Chris'en name, and whether he'd a sweetheart? And he answered, Edwin, and he hadn't. Mr.
He gazes on the immense city, which lies outspread beneath his feet. PARIS with the dark outline of its towers, cupolas, domes, and steeples, standing out from the limpid blue of the horizon, while from the midst of the ocean of masonry, rises a luminous vapor, that reddens the starry azure of the sky.
Defoe's irony is so measured and studiously commonplace that perhaps those who imprisoned him because they believed him to be serious are hardly to be blamed; Swift's quivers and reddens with anger in every line. But his pen seldom slips from the strong grasp of his controlling art.
When things are sundered which God has indissolubly joined, or confounded in one, which he has separated by infinite extremes; when sacred and eternal distinctions, which he has garnished with glory, are derided and set at nought, then, if ever, sin reddens to its "scarlet dye."
"No, madame, it's for a tradesman who pays me for them: like the convicts, my labor enables me to treat myself to some little comforts." Adolphe reddens; he can't very well beat his wife, and Madame de Fischtaminel looks at him as much as to say, "What does this mean?" "You cough a good deal, my darling," says Madame de Fischtaminel. "Oh!" returns Caroline, "what is life to me?"
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