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'He stood on the starboard side of the bridge, as far as he could get from the struggle for the boat, which went on with the agitation of madness and the stealthiness of a conspiracy. The two Malays had meantime remained holding to the wheel.
The bit jingled gaily, the leather creaked, the horse, smelling the turf, gave a snort of delight, but his rider restrained him lightly. On her right hand was the open country sloping slowly to the water; on her left was the stealthiness of the larch wood; over and about everything was the blue day.
The voice had a certain quick stealthiness, through which, however, a little tremor of apprehension might be detected. David Grieve, who was smoking and reading in the garden, came up to where his small son stood, and surveyed him. 'Sandy, you've been getting into mischief. The child laid hold of his father, dragged him into the little hall, and towards the dining-room door.
There was a snake-like stealthiness in her appearance, which Alfred's mother saw across the room and trembled. Then she raised her eyes again to her uncle's, and said, with a kind of hissing sneer, "Indeed, Uncle Lawrence, thank you for nothing. It's not very hard for you to be sorry." Not dismayed, not even surprised by this speech, Lawrence was about to reply, but she struck in,
He stooped and picked it up, a certain stealthiness apparent in his movement. Felix watched him in amazement. "It is Lady Carey's, is it not?" he asked. "Yes. Be silent. I will give it back to her presently." A waiter served them with coffee. Mr. Sabin was idly sketching something on the back of his menu card. Felix broke into a little laugh as the man retired. "Mysterious as ever," he remarked.
Alas! alas!... Hazlitt was thinking of such experiences, knowing perhaps the stealthiness and duplicity which the fear of them develops in the honest but polite, when he recommended that one should take one's walks alone. He or she whose words are always about the place and moment, or seem to suit it; whose remarks, like certain music, feel restful, spacious, cool, airy like silence.
The hypnotized wild thing hypnotized by its own vague instincts, or by something outside itself-became to her as the Sphinx to the Egyptian, the everlasting question of existence. Now, as she watched the day fleeing, and night with swift stealthiness coming on, that unforgettable picture of the Roumanian hills came to her again.
He should have the alert brain of a Robespierre, the physical strength of a Danton, the relentlessness of a Marat. He should be a giant in sheer brute force, a tiger in caution, an elephant in weight, and a mouse in stealthiness! Name of a name! but 'twas only hate that could give such powers to any man! Hebert, in the guard-room, owned to his doubts.
She made him think of Jeanie little Jeanie who had prayed for his happiness and had not lived to see her prayer fulfilled. He drew near with a certain stealthiness, fearing to startle her. He would have risen to his feet, but his strength was ebbing fast. He knew he could not.
In approaching it again on the opposite side, we resumed all our former stealthiness of movement, feeling that our lives in all probability depended upon our caution.
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