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And therethrough he would drive his horse, splashing with great noise, whilst the little silvery fish would dart away upon all sides, hither and thither, like sparks of light before his coming.
So Hugh commenced, and rapidly sketched the strange happenings of the preceding evening how he had taken the little fellow with him for a walk, and stopped at the smithy to see the sparks flying upwards in showers; of the invitation to take supper, and spend an hour in chatting with the deacon and his good wife. Then, quick on the heels of this he told how Mrs.
But in the farther room the room? What would she find there? She stared at the door and dared not open it; then with a desperate hand tore it open, and stood on the threshold. Yes, and here! Here, too, all was as she had left it. She waved the little brand above her head heedless of the sparks, waved it until it flamed high and cast a light into every corner.
Twin sparks sprang alight in his eyes. "That sort of thing makes me feel like a kettle on the boil. Wish I'd had a boiling kettle to empty over Bennet." "So do I the mean Scab! And he's pinched your bicycle." "No fear! You bet we'll find it round the corner. He wouldn't have the spunk to go right off with it.
In the face of all this tissue of rumor, guesswork, and self-contradiction, the deliberate statement of Patrick Henry himself that he wrote the five resolutions referred to by him, and that he wrote them "alone, unadvised, and unassisted," must close the discussion. Verified from the original manuscript, now in possession of Mr. W. W. Henry. Cited by Sparks, in Everett, Life of Henry, 392.
Sparks are flying all about the place, and it will be not less than a miracle if something combustible and indestructible in you does not take fire. I have only one cautionary word to utter. You may be saying to yourself: "So long as I stick to classics I cannot go wrong." You can go wrong.
To be a man only a man how great that is!" His voice died away, and with it the sweet, soothing spell. Fire glowed in Melisselda's breast, heaving her bosom, shooting sparks from her eyes. "Nay, if thou art only a man, thou art not even a man. My love is dead." As he shrank beneath her contempt, another stanza of his ancient song sang itself involuntarily in his brain. Never had he seen her thus.
Then, all at once, I was up and running along Skeleton Cove, filled with a dreadful apprehension, and coming out upon Deliverance Beach, stood quaking like one smitten with a palsy; for there, lapped about in writhing flame and crackling sparks, was all that remained of my boat, and crouched upon the sands, watching me by the light of this fire, was she who called herself Joanna.
Hazlewood flushed with pleasure at the flattery. "Little reflections," he cried with a modest deprecation, "worked out more or less to completeness may I say that? in the quiet of a rural life, sparks from the tiny flame of my midnight oil." He picked up one pamphlet from a stack by his writing-table. "You might perhaps care to look at The Prison Walls." Thresk drew back. "I have got mine, Mr.
The snow sprinted on either side, like sparks from a blade that is being sharpened, the whiteness round about ran swifter, swifter, in pure flame the white slope flew against her, and she fused like one molten, dancing globule, rushed through a white intensity. Then there was a great swerve at the bottom, when they swung as it were in a fall to earth, in the diminishing motion. They came to rest.
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