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These latter were slender, almost wasplike insects with lacy wings and long, thread-like legs, that whirled and danced with the mad joyousness of life, the mass of swirling creatures seemingly spinning a net of sheerest gossamer that curtained the interior from the prying eyes of the wrens and ant birds hopping inquisitively through the crevices of the windfall.
I propose that we get the sheerest silk gauze we can find, and cut an eighth-inch square apiece to tie about our middles after the transformation." He slapped his fist into his palm. "By George! Such talk really begins to bring it home.
"A-a-h," he sighed long, almost luxuriously, and spoke with pauses for breath. "It is passing. It seems like heaven. My dear, I'm water-logged, yet the mere absence of that frightful agony makes my present state sheerest bliss." She tried to gasp a reply, but could not. "I'm all right," he assured her. "Let us float and rest up. Stretch out, yourself, and get your wind back."
He smiled at her elemental point of view; laughed outright when the significance of it struck him fairly. But it betokened allegiance of a kind to gladden the heart of the masculine tyrant, and he rolled the declaration of fealty as a sweet morsel under his tongue. "You stand by your friends, right or wrong, don't you, girl?" he said, in sheerest self-gratulation. "That's what I like in you.
"I believe I would have loved her if, if Gerald Vernor had not come here when she did." "Oh, Denham!" "Yes, Soeur Angélique. It is a humiliating confession, is it not, that one has wilfully thrown away something that perhaps one might have had, for something that one knows one can never have? It is sheerest folly. And to do it with one's eyes open is the maddest folly of all.
It was only when the Irish Party set their faces sternly against any concessions to Ulster that Sir Edward Carson stepped into the breach and came to the front as the duly elected leader of the Ulster Party. It is the sheerest nonsense and pure ignorance of the facts to say that Sir Edward Carson created the Ulster difficulty.
"What's this?" he indicated the paper in Alfie's hand. "By the sheerest of coincidences I happen to have a copy of your new assignment!" replied Alfie. Tom, Roger, and Astro looked at each other in surprise. "Well, come on, spaceman," urged Roger. "Give us the inside info. Where are we going?" Alfie tucked the paper in his inside pocket and faced Roger.
"As for love, I think I should be moderate in the asking, in the giving. A little to flavour routine would be sufficient for me I fancy." "You know so much about it," observed Mrs. Ferrall ironically. "I am permitted to speculate, am I not?" "Certainly. Only speculate in sound investments, dear." "How can you make a sound investment in love? Isn't it always sheerest speculation?"
There were pearl-colored brocades and satins, and dainty caps of sheerest material that allowed the well-dressed hair to show quite distinctly. There was also a certain gayety and sprightliness in entertaining, since there were no matinées or shows to visit. Both hostess and guest were expected to contribute of their best.
She had her burning barrier across the more dangerous end of the valley, where the cliffs dropped sheerest, she had but another few yards to go and there would be hope that she would succeed. But she must not stop yet, not yet. She ran on toward the nearer rim of the valley, scattering burning wisps of grass as she went, her heart beating wildly, seeming ready to burst through her side.
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