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Updated: June 18, 2025
And so, a lovely spot like this, or the finest garden may belong to the passer-by whose purse does not contain a penny." "How it smoothes in life the inequalities of station, and makes us content to admire, rather than strive for ownership."
"My management would if I know anything of him be essentially different from your son's; different from what he would approve. Neither would I take authority upon myself only to have it displaced upon his return. Have Roy before you, Mrs. Verner, and caution him." "It does no good. I have already had him. He smoothes things over to me, so that black looks white.
Perhaps he takes care to see that the ends of his necktie are properly adjusted. Or he smoothes down the ruffles or front of his shirt or evening-dress. Or he tries to find out by a questioning and furtive glance whether his wig, blonde or brown, curled or plain, is in its natural position. Perhaps he looks at his nails to see whether they are clean and duly cut.
She always smoothes her apron with both hands when she sees him, which is a sign that she would like to do him a bodily injury if she could. On this occasion, alter smoothing her apron and shoving a protruding hair pin into the back of her hair, she marched out of the room. "McMeekin tells me," I said to Titherington, "that Vittie has got the influenza. Is it true?"
This alleviation became him well, a tide of youth softening his expression as a wave smoothes the sands. "What is the part?" "Juliana, in 'The Honeymoon'! It is one of our stock pieces." "And you like it?" "Oh, yes." Lingering where a bit of sward was set with field flowers. "And who plays the duke?" he continued. "Mr. O'Flariaty," she answered, a suggestion of amusement in her glance.
To return, therefore, fortune we find still favouring the blunt, and flushing the forward; strokes and smoothes up fools, crowning all their undertakings with success; but wisdom makes her followers bashful, sneaking, and timorous, and therefore you see that they are commonly reduced to hard shifts, must grapple with poverty, cold and hunger, must lie recluse, despised, and unregarded, while fools roll in money, are advanced to dignities and offices, and in a word, have the whole world at command.
The mighty river, after its dizzy plunge at the great cataract, and mad tumultuous rush and eddy at the rapids and whirlpool, smoothes its rugged front and restrains its impetuous stream to the semblance of a placid old age after a wild and stormy life. The slumberous old town of Niagara has also an air of calm repose. No vulgar din of trade disturbs its quiet grass-grown streets.
So Time, Nature's handy-man, bustles to and fro about the many rooms, making all things tidy, covers with sweet earth the burnt volcanoes, turns to use the debris of the ages, smoothes again the ground above the dead, heals again the beech bark marred by lovers. In the beginning I was far from being a favourite with my schoolmates, and this was the first time trouble came to dwell with me.
This explanation, little flattering as it was to the cavalry, seemed to convince the listeners that time, which smoothes so many difficulties, will even make a man content to be a dragoon. "Well, since you will not be 'of ours," said François, "let us drink a parting cup, and say good-by, for I hear the bugle sounding the call." "A health to the 'Faubourg St.
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It smoothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear." The tremble in her voice ceased, and she went on "It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled beast; 'T is manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary, rest.
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