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The color was a rich, deep, and uniform red, such as much exposure is apt to give to men whose complexions are, by nature, light and florid. The dress of the stranger was quite as remarkable as his person.
Our Maker also, in his kindness, has so constructed us, that even mere vicissitude is grateful and refreshing a consideration which should prompt us often to seek, from a prudent variation of useful pursuits, that recreation, for which we are apt to resort to what is altogether, unproductive and unfruitful. Yet rich and multiplied are the springs of innocent relaxation.
On this condition, I consent to play the saint for twenty-seven days out of thirty, and to be always as grave and heavy as the paper itself." "A journal! that will be something droll, and dance forbidden steps all alone on the tables of the cafes." "Yes, it will be droll enough; but not for everybody. They are rich sacristans, who pay the expenses.
There is nothing which goes so far to prove the falsity of the saying that "trade follows the flag" as do these model German colonies with their barracks, governor's palace, officers' clubs, public pleasure parks, and with no trade; and the English colonies, where the German merchants remain, and where, under the English flag, they grow steadily rich.
How beautiful is the whole region, for form, and grouping, and opulence, and freshness of foliage, and variety of color, and grace and shapeliness of the hills, the capes, the, promontories; and then, the splendor of the sunlight, the dim rich distances, the charm of the water-glimpses!
Your mere good sense will show you that I cannot budge. I have accepted him being rich, and I cannot throw him over when he is poor. I may not like it I don't like it but I am helpless. Whatever change is made, it cannot be made by me." He stared at her in blank wonder and dismay. For a moment he could not say anything.
Hedges, fields, and trees, hill and moorland, presented to the eye their ever-varying shades of deep rich green; scarce a leaf had fallen, scarce a sprinkle of yellow mingled with the hues of summer, warned you that autumn had begun.
His only window looked out on a courtyard, a narrow, dark shaft, where only the rats could have seen his three Japanese lanterns. He needed a public opening. He found it. On the first floor of his house lived a rich man, a nobleman and a royalist, whose coachman, also a reactionary, occupied a garret-room on the sixth floor, facing the street.
My companions made similar provisions of money and rum, though neither was as rich as myself. I left Mallet and Leonard Lewis my heirs at law if I escaped, and my trustees should I be caught. Lewis was a young man of better origin than most in the prison, and I have always thought some calamity drove him to the seas. He was in ill health, and did not appear to be destined to a long life.
Alexander the Great, having found a rich cabinet amongst Darius' spoils, gave order it should be reserved for him to keep his Homer in, saying: that he was the best and most faithful counsellor he had in his military affairs.
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