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Suddenly the turrets of the old house vanished from sight. Everything around them assumed an unfamiliar look. "We seem to have lost our way," said Elena cheerfully. "Never fear, we'll find our way out," replied Elisaveta. "We are bound to get somewhere." At that instant there came towards them from among the bushes the small, sunburnt, handsome Kirsha.
I came in to supper hungry, weary, footsore, sunburnt, dirty, happier, in short, than I have been for a twelvemonth. And now for the victories of the brush! June 11th. Another day afoot and also afloat. I resolved this morning to leave this abominable little tavern. I can't stand my feather-bed another night. I determined to find some other prospect than the town-pump and the "drug-store."
Beauparlant complained bitterly of the cold whilst among the rapids but no sooner had he reached the upper part of the river than he found the change of the temperature so great that he vented his indignation against the heat. "Mais c'est terrible," said he, to be frozen and sunburnt in the same day.
But in her heart she knew he had not thought any harm of her confidence. There had been no mistaking the sympathy in that sunburnt face, and if there had been any doubt remaining, the hearty grip of the rough hand, which she still felt upon her palm, would have set her mind quite at rest. But if Mrs.
He came down to more ordinary swearing, and pulled himself up abruptly. "Excuse me," he said, "but salvage!" He leant over towards me. "I was in that job," he said. "Tried to make myself a rich man, and got made a god instead. I've got my feelings "It ain't all jam being a god," said the sunburnt man, and for some time conversed by means of such pithy but unprogressive axioms.
As he rode towards the intended battle ground, a flush of ardor began to show itself on his sunburnt features; and his dragoons, who studied the face of their leader, as the best index to their own fate, saw again the wonted flashing of the eyes, and the cheerful animation, which they had so often witnessed on the eve of battle.
"She's all flushed and sunburnt, and overheated." "Daisy is never anything but cool," he said; "unless when she gets hold of a principle, and somebody else gets hold of the other end. We'll look at these things after dinner, Daisy." "Principles?" half exclaimed Mrs. Sandford, with so dismayed an expression that the doctor and I both laughed.
For George, her new brother-in-law, was sure to talk a terrible amount of shop. Sir William was very tall certainly, and good-looking. He had a short pointed beard, a ruddy, sunburnt complexion, blue eyes and broad shoulders the common points of the well-born and landowning Englishman. Bridget looked at him with a mixture of respect and hostility.
It was on a bright sunny day in July that my uncle and I jumped into a cab and bade the man drive us to the old house, where I had passed so many happy as well as unhappy days. "We will not stop to go and see barbers or to dress, Nat, but go and take them by surprise," said my uncle; and for the first time I began to wonder whether I had altered. "Am I very much more sunburnt than I used to be?"
Good-morning, Madame Menin!" "So you are back at last, sir! How brown you have got quite sunburnt. You are quite well, I hope, sir?" "Very well, thank you; has any one been here in my absence?" "I was going to tell you, sir; the plumber has been here, because the tap of your cistern came off in my hand. It wasn't my fault; there had been a heavy rain that morning. So "
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