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Updated: May 13, 2025
The emperor summoned six hundred of the most influential of the citizens to his palace, including all who possessed rank or office or wealth. Tremblingly they came. As soon as they had entered, the gates were closed and guarded, and they were all made prisoners.
It was true that the soil was ready. Indians in full costume were lurking down cellar or behind kitchen doors, swearing they would never ride, but tremblingly eager to be urged. Settlers, gloomily acquiescent in an unjust fate, brightened at his heralding. The ghost was the thing.
"He lies in his throat," says Bourrienne, "who asserts that Bonaparte entertained other feelings for Hortense than those a step-father should entertain for his step-daughter! Hortense entertained for the first consul a feeling of reverential fear. She always spoke to him tremblingly. She never ventured to approach him with a petition.
She patted the back of his hand, gently, even tremblingly. Her eyes were very bright and very solemn. "It has to go on now, Simmy," she said at last. For a long time they were silent. "I hope you have got completely over your love for Braden Thorpe," he said. "But, of course, you have. You don't care for him any more. You couldn't care for him and go on with this. It wouldn't be human, you know."
Hurry and pull it off before the young giants come." Tiny and Teenty cut the strings of pop-corn with their sharp teeth and they fell softly to the carpet. All at once, the door flew open and in ran Ruth and Robert Giant. Tiny and Teenty scrambled out of sight under the sofa pillows and sat tremblingly holding each other's cold little paws, while their hearts went thumpity-thump!
But he felt unaccountably nervous; the diplomatic and well-chosen introduction he had carefully prepared had left him at the critical moment; all power of thought was gone with it, and he went tremblingly up to the schoolmaster, feeling hopelessly at the mercy of anything that chose to come out of his mouth. "Dr.
His father was silent. "I wish you'd say something, father," cried poor Bert, impatiently. "I s'pose you don't think I'm worth flogging; but" "My dear boy," said his father, "I knew your footsteps in the shed last night. I knew perfectly well who was hidden in the old closet." "Why didn't you say so?" inquired astonished Bert, tremblingly. "Because I preferred to let you go.
When she marked what I was looking at, she blushed in confusion; it was plain to see from her face that she was innocent, that she knew nothing of the stick. A whole minute passed. At last she turned, furiously impatient, and said tremblingly: "Your stick do not forget your stick." And there before my eyes she handed me the Doctor's stick. I looked at her.
It was impossible to take in this sublime spectacle at once, so overpowering were its features; and as we gazed tremblingly at the huge Cirque, I felt as if on the eve of being crushed by its impending walls. Within a few yards of the most western cascade, the ascent to the Brêche is made.
I was transported in thought to the scenes of childhood: I dreamt I lay in the red-room at Gateshead; that the night was dark, and my mind impressed with strange fears. The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.
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