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He stares stolidly at the Prospekt, ignoring not only the Theatre, but the vast structures containing the Direction of Theatres and Prisons, the Censor's Office, Theatrical School, and other government offices in the background; the new building for shops and apartments, where ancient Russian forms have been adapted to modern street purposes; and even the wonderfully rich Imperial Public Library, begun in 1794, to contain the books brought from Warsaw, with its Corinthian peristyle interspersed with bronze statues of ancient sages, on the garden side, all of which stand upon the scene of his former garden parties, as the name of the avenue beyond the plain end of the Library on the Prospekt Great Garden Street reminds us.
'You may say that! for, were I a farmer, like the rest, I should have something to do, like the rest something that I cared for and I should come home tired at night, and fall asleep, as the rest do, before the fire; but when I comes home at night I am not tired, for I have been doing nothing all day that I care for; and then I sits down and stares about me, and at the fire, till I become frighted; and then I shouts to my brother Denis, or to the gossoons, "Get up, I say, and let's be doing something; tell us the tale of Finn-ma-Coul, and how he lay down in the Shannon's bed, and let the river flow down his jaws!"
"Melt them down!" answers the silver smith, "that is quite another matter." He takes the chalices and the crucifix with a pair of tongs; the silver, thus in bond, is dropped into the crucible, melted, and delivered to the thief, who lays down five pistoles and decamps with his booty. The young servant stares at this strange scene. But the master very gravely resumes his lecture.
You say, dead and gone. Captain Lake cursed him and his absent keeper between his teeth; still in a rather flurried way, prosecuting his conjugal attentions. 'There was no bell for poor Mark; and he's always listening, and stares so. A cat may look, you know. 'Can't you touch the bell, Sir? What are you standing there for? snarled Lake, with a glare at the old man.
'The old gentleman claps the telescope to his eye, looks all round, sees nobody else in sight, stares at Tom again, and cries out very loud: "Hal-loa!" "Halloa, Sir," says Tom from the ladder; "and halloa again, if you come to that." "Here's an extraordinary fulfilment," says the old gentleman, "of a prediction of the planets." "Is there?" says Tom. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Wall Street is in a state of excitement, the sheriff is in possession of everything, and beggary stares me in the face " This conversation was interrupted by loud ringing of the hall bell, and in another minute Bowles opened the parlor door and the sheriff and one of his deputies entered, and commenced their business.
Your Irish immigrant at eight and ten shillings a week has as often as not never been inside any other household than her native hovel, and stares in astonishment to find that you don't keep a pig on your drawing-room sofa.
Our failure stares us in the face, and we see with disgust that we have been bluffed and fooled and held in check all day by some sixty or eighty riflemen, while the main body, waggons, guns, and all, are marching away across our front.
Bunker stares at the fellow as Clown stares at Harlequin after having cut him in two, in dumb amazement at the fact that Harlequin is not in the least disturbed by being cut in two. "I wonder," he mutters as he returns to the table, "if that unmitigated wooden image of a dunderhead would pay any attention if I were to kick him?"
The young fellow opens his mouth, and stares at Konev. Then he asks: "To what province do I belong?" "If you yourself have forgotten to what province you belong, you had better try and loosen your wits." "Look here. If I were to hit you, I "
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