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William the Fourth, with his good Queen, Adelaide, I saw once, as they rode in the great State carriage to the Handel commemoration, at Westminster Abbey, in June, 1834. The King had a good-tempered, simple-looking face, without much sign of intellectual power; the Queen's face was of Grecian shape, and had a thoughtful and intelligent expression.
And, no, I was not mistaken, that simple-looking countryman yonder was Jerome. I was quite at a loss how to attract his attention; I feared to yell, lest that give notice to the sentry. I took a spur from my heel and dropped it directly in front of him; I knew he would recognize it, for it was his own, loaned to me for my more fashionable appearance. He heard the jingle and glanced around.
Raphael is the full-blown rose; the only Beyond is Dissolution and the straggling of faded petals. October 17. "War, that simple-looking word which lightly comes tripping from the lips of unthinking men, and even women." So writes a famous war-correspondent, a man in the midst of war and telling of war as it really is.
She had been amused to find the Miss Strangeways hunting over it to match that very simple-looking charm which Lena wore on to her watch, for, as she said, "the attraction must either be the simplicity of it, or the general Lena-worship in which those girls indulge." "How does that dear child look?" "Fagged, I think, but so does every one, and it was not easy to keep order, Mrs.
Owney could not for the life of him avoid cutting a hole in the bag, to have a peep about the kitchen, and see whether he had no means of escape. He could see only one person, a simple-looking man, who was counting his beads in the chimney-corner, and now and then striking his breast, and looking up as if he was praying greatly.
"Who told you to interfere?" said the radical, turning ferociously towards the simple-looking man; "say another word, and I'll And you!" said he, addressing himself to the man in black, "a pretty fellow you to turn against me, after I had taken your part. I tell you what, you may fight for yourself.
'I could serve out three like him, said the man in the snuff-coloured coat. 'So much the better for you, said the other, 'the present work will be all the easier for you, get up, and serve him out at once. The man in the snuff-coloured coat did not stir. 'Who shows the white feather now? said the simple-looking man. 'He! he! he! tittered the man in black.
"A ring?" said Monte-Cristo, wonderfully moved, while he cast a hasty glance at Mercedes. In a gloomy manner, but without saying a single word, Mercedes took a simple-looking silver ring from her finger, and handed it to the count, who looked at the simple precious thing with a tear in his eye it was the wedding-ring which Edmond Dantes once presented to the Catalan, Mercedes.
A simple-looking vaporous chaos of incongruous, but not conflicting, elements: a poem of virtue without object, of knighthood without work, of religion without belief; in this like its central interest, the Grail: a mystery, a cup, a stone; a thing which heals, feeds, speaks; animate or inanimate? Stone of the Caaba or chalice of the Sacrament?
The mother was a respectable, simple-looking woman, but the daughter was a perfect beauty; she literally dazzled me. After a few minutes, the over-trustful mother begged leave to retire, and her daughter remained.
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