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It steadies the life of the present, elevates and upholds it, and lightens and lifts it up, by the memory of the great deeds, the noble sufferings, and the valorous achievements of the men of old. The life of nations, as of men, is a great treasury of experience, which, wisely used, issues in social progress and improvement; or, misused, issues in dreams, delusions, and failure.
Was it the demonstration that what we needed was to sit under the live-oaks and "develop the individual man," nor dare to look beyond? Was it the forgetfulness that muscles grow strong only with exercise; that it is the duties of manhood that take the acrid humors out of a youth's blood; that it is great responsibility, manfully met, not cowardly evaded, that sobers and steadies and ennobles?
Last summer her flower-like face would have betrayed her in its changing tints. Now she steadies her voice, though she must answer at random. "He has not quite decided, I think." "It would be a nice little run for them, though I have made John promise to be back by Christmas." All the afternoon Violet ponders this in a sore, bewildered state.
Am I a dog to bay the moon have I the soul of a tourist from Liverpool or Poughkeepsie?" The lanky Southerner gripped his arm. "There's a hunting song of the South," he said, "and the last line is, 'The hound that never tires. You are that, Donovan Pasha " "I am 'little Dicky Donovan, so they say," interrupted the other. "You are the weight that steadies things in this shaky Egypt.
"Why didn't you tell me it was Harry, Mary?" asked Bertha. "It would have saved all this year of misery. "I didn't see Harry Dale at all that night," said Bertha. "I was I was crying when Jim left me, and when Harry came along I slipped behind a tree until he was past. And now, look here, Mary, I can't marry Jim until he steadies down, but I'll give him another chance.
The daylight and the publicity are alien elements, which wean the man a little from himself. He steadies his dizzy brain on the crowd beneath and around him. He has his last part to play, and his manhood rallies to play it well.
To swerve to either side means sure destruction. With terrific speed we reach the brink of a violent descent. For a moment the canoe pauses, steadies herself, then dips her head as the stern upheaves, and down we plunge among more rocks than ever. Right in our path the angry stream is waging battle with a hoary bowlder that disputes the way.
They shaded their eyes and studied it with a singular interest for long moments, patient, silent, quiet as the hawk when he steadies himself in leisurely circles high in the heart of heaven and fixes his eyes surely on his prey far, far below then folds his wings and shoots suddenly down, a veritable bolt from the blue.
Great God! he sees it! They all see it! Plainly against that portion of the disc which still lifted itself above the further wall, a curious moving mass appears, lengthens, takes on shape, then shoots suddenly aloft, clearing the encircling tops of the bending, twisting and tormented trees, straight into the heart of the gale, where for one breathless moment it whirls madly about like a thing distraught, then in slow but triumphant obedience to the master hand that guides it, steadies and mounts majestically upward till it is lost to their view in the depths of impenetrable darkness.
After dinner, while we was setting in the ranch room which they all liked so well and could have sherry or coffee, or both, or maybe Scotch, Mrs. Kimberly kept on saying to the old man: "Wilfred, I'm surprised!" "So'm I, my dear," says he "surprised that we've never been here all the time before. You may mark us down as steadies now," says he.
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