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There, its whole frame trembled and glowed with extraordinary radiance, . . the prevailing color of its skin was creamy white, marked with countless rings and scaly bright spots of silver, purple, and a peculiar livid blue, and all these tints came into brilliant prominence, as it crouched before Lysia and twisted its sinuous neck to and fro with an evidently fawning and supplicatory gesture; while she, keeping her sombre dark eyes fixed full upon it, moved not an inch from her position, but, majestically serene, continued to hold the tall staff of ebony straight and erect as a growing palm.
Her supplicatory tone and attitude, though they were somewhat assumed, proved to what a height Musa had recently risen as a personage. He hesitated, leaning against the rail and nervously fingering it. "I know it is a great deal to ask. But you would give us so much pleasure," said Madame Piriac. Musa replied in a dry, curt voice: "I should prefer not to play." "Oh!
We had found nothing to eat; the general opinion was for slaughtering the prisoners; but I refused to accede to this, and kept them in bonds till an embassy came from the Ox-heads to ransom them; so we understood the motions they made, and their tearful supplicatory lowings.
Or he would go into the Roman Forum, and make a humble and supplicatory address to the people there, imploring their forgiveness for his cruelties and crimes, and solemnly promising never to be guilty of such excesses again, if they would pardon and protect him.
I confess with shame it was an unpardonable omission to proceed so far as I have already done before I had performed the due discourses, expostulatory, supplicatory, or deprecatory, with my good lords the critics.
He was awake to every passing incident with a feverish alertness. "Let me go," he said again, with a look of supplicatory appeal. Old Matthew got up and opened the door. "Sista, there's some betterment in the weather, now; it teem't awhile ago." "What of that?" asked Ralph; but he understood the observation.
Dallas qualified her consent by the securing of her husband's approval, though she said she felt sure he would not withhold it. He was out at the time, but before the visitors left he came in. He was called and introduced and the request put to him by Jannish, in his most elaborate and supplicatory style.
Here, the old gentleman was seized with a violent fit of coughing, which, being terminated, he nodded his head and winked and made several supplicatory and threatening gestures to his son, all of which Sam Weller steadily abstained from seeing. Mr.
"Dare you hesitate? Do you wish to undo yourselves by defying me?" "Mercy, august lady," cried Alfidius, for the chief executioner was he, with a supplicatory gesture. "If our mistress knows that her commands are unexecuted, it is we, who are but slaves, that must suffer!" "Who is your mistress?" demanded Fabia. "Valeria, wife of Lucius Calatinus." "Livia's precious mother!" whispered Drusus.
I just caught in soft, supplicatory accents the opening words, "Namu Amida Butsu" "Hear me, compassionate Lord Buddha" words that soon become familiar as one visits these temples; the great refrain of these people's prayers when they pray before the image of "Him, honoured, wisest, best, most pitiful, whose lips comfort the world."
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