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Orme's wan thin face grew radiant, the brown eyes dilated, glowed, and the blood leaped to her hollow cheeks, burning in two scarlet spots; but the invocation seemed literally answered, when she was suddenly conscious of a strange bubbling sensation, and over her parted, laughing lips crept the crimson that fed her heart.
Black spots and patches appear all over the surface, and in the course of a few weeks the entire tusk rots away and is destroyed. "It thus happened that one morning, towards the end of our three months' sojourn at Behar, the chiefs who came as usual to our house or hut to greet us, wore no longer the pleasant and friendly aspect they were wont to do, but looked surly and fierce.
He prowled about among the houses trying to find some one to whom to explain, but the panic had swept even the old men and women away. He could hear the people calling to one another from their spots of refuge, and ever the burden of the shout was either "Kla-quitch!" or "Yellow!" that is to say, the Elcuanam word for that suddenly unpopular color.
A tawny monster with black spots, belonging to the fair sex of her noble race, was calmly quenching her thirst in the river Caveri after she had finished drinking she squatted on her hind feet and stretched her forepaws in front of her breast sphinx-like and luxuriously rubbed her head in and out among the soft leaves scattered on the riverside.
They have often dug into lands that are described in old authors, as the places where such particular statues or obelisks stood, and have seldom failed of success in their pursuits. There are still many such promising spots of ground that have never been searched into.
"Where is my daughter?" he demanded, standing at Lot's bedside in his great fur coat, all bristling with points of snow. "She'll be back presently," answered Lot. His voice was a little stronger; there were two red spots on his cheeks. "Where's she gone?" "For the doctor." All at once David Hautville gave a great start. "Why, you're talking!" he cried out. "You couldn't speak."
It was a bright forenoon of February; a month in which the brief severity of a Roman winter is already past, and when violets and daisies begin to show themselves in spots favored by the sun. The sculptor came out of the city by the gate of San Sebastiano, and walked briskly along the Appian Way.
Clear off the soap, and finish with a smooth hard brush till the stains are all removed. After a very good rubbing, the marble will acquire a beautiful polish. If the marble has been injured by iron stains, take an equal quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol and lemon juice. Mix them in a bottle, shake it well, and wet the spots.
The rise within the historical period has not amounted to many yards, but the greater extent of antecedent upheaval is proved by the occurrence in inland spots, several hundred feet high, of deposits filled with fossil shells of species now living either in the ocean or the Baltic.
The general aspect of the country differed but little from what I have already attempted to describe. Vast deserts of lava, snow-capped mountains in the distance, a few green spots here and there, and no apparent sign of habitation these were its principal features. Below the falls the scene was peculiarly wild and characteristic.
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