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"It shifts our centre of gravity." "Things will readjust themselves," I lied. He snatched at the phrase. "Of course," he said. "They'll readjust themselves settle down again. Must. In the old way. It's bound to come right again a comforting thought. Yes. After all, Lady Grove itself had to be built once upon a time was to begin with artificial." His eye returned to my aeroplane.
And among what our poet so eloquently calls 'the vast and noble scenes of Nature, we find the balm for the wounds we have sustained among the 'pitiful shifts of policy; for the attachment to solitude is the surest preservative from the ills of life: and I know not if the Romans ever instilled, under allegory, a sublimer truth than when they inculcated the belief that those inspired by Feronia, the goddess of woods and forests, could walk barefoot and uninjured over burning coals."
The boys arranged to take turns in shifts with regard to keeping the building clean, and thus far the scheme had worked very well; for the town did not care to go to the extra expense of hiring a custodian. Besides this, a high fence was ordered to be built around the entire grounds, for most other towns had their athletic fields enclosed.
It was the futility of his multiplied shifts and privations that made them seem unworthy of a high attitude; the sense that, however rapidly he eliminated the superfluous, his cleared horizon was likely to offer no nearer view of the one prospect toward which he strained.
He had lain down upon his bed of sickness a gentlemanly beggar; he arose from that couch of pain and weariness a swindler. Now began those petty shifts and miserable falsifications whereby the birds of prey thrive on the flesh and blood of hapless pigeons. Now the dovecotes were fluttered by a new destroyer a gentlemanly vulture, whose suave accents and perfect manners were fatal to the unwary.
Such a story is in this way misrepresentative of life: it fails utterly to suggest "the welter of impressions which life presents," the sudden kaleidoscopic shifts of actual life from one series of events to another, and the consequent intricacy and apparent chaos of life's successive happenings. The structure is too straightforward, too direct, too unwavering and unhesitant.
If you have never suffered from the virulent attacks of an evil spirit who shifts your object just as you are taking aim, who puts a fatal end to your highest hopes, in one word, if you have never felt the devil's tail whisking over the world, the opera of Robert le Diable must be to you, what the Apocalypse is to those who believe that all things will end with them.
So we were hurrying to your house to find out t' truth." "Don't say a word about it, boys," said the skipper. "One of you take this skiff and row her back to Wild Bight, while I go with the others and try and tow in the wreck before the wind shifts. But be sure not to say anything about the business at home."
He saw the deserted flat on the river bank by the Klondike, and he saw the log cabins and warehouses spring up, and all the log structures he had built, and his sawmills working night and day on three shifts. "Why, dog-gone it, Miss Mason, you're right in a way. I've built hundreds of houses up there, and I remember I was proud and glad to see them go up. I'm proud now, when I remember them.
Holyoake shifts the question from this broad general ground, which is common to all earnest inquirers after truth, and seeks to entangle us in a collateral, but subordinate, discussion respecting the relation between Morality and Scripture.
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