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Along with them, sharing their sad fate, Lilly Lalee, that pretty, uncomplaining child, the innocent victim of an ill-starred destiny, must disappear forever from a world of which she had as yet seen so little, and that little of the least favourable kind.
He was quiet and uncomplaining, and the "easy mark" for all the rest. We had constantly to be interfering to save him from imposition as to too heavy loads, too many jobs, and the like. Nearing the close of the long expedition, when our loads were lighter and fewer, one day C. spoke up. "I'm going to give the old man a good time," said he.
He smoothed back the gray hair from his furrowed brow, and, with a twinkle in his blue eye, said: "How much will you take for your services? I want to engage you to teach my madcap daughters a little quiet bravery and uncomplaining endurance." "I have none of the Shylock in my composition; only give me a few kind words and I shall be satisfied. Now, once for all, Dr.
They last, and when we blonde ones cry or grow thin, oh! what objects we become!" There were some final affectionate words, but no further explanations. The wrinkles again settled on the farmer's mild, uncomplaining forehead. Rhoda said: "Let us wait, father." When alone, she locked the letter against her heart, as to suck the secret meaning out of it.
We were all stiff and sore, from the exceedingly uncomfortable sleeping accommodations of the last two nights; but this was a comparatively trifling evil. Johnny had a severe cold, his eyes were inflamed and bloodshot, and he exhibited also strong symptoms of fever. Nevertheless, silent and uncomplaining, he came and sat down quietly by the side of Arthur in the stern.
The king was not interested, and wanted to move along, but I was absorbed, and full of pity. I could not take my eyes away from these worn and wasted wrecks of humanity. There they sat, grounded upon the ground, silent, uncomplaining, with bowed heads, a pathetic sight.
But, being keenly sympathetic, he had a better sense of his mother's necessities than his father had shown, and to the amelioration of her condition and his own, he sacrificed his love of books so far as to be, when occasion offered, an uncomplaining seller of those he liked, and a dealer in those he did not like.
The mouth seems as if the sculptor's chisel had just carved it so stern, so stony. Ah, he is not scornful now! he looks only sad, uncomplaining, but very miserable. What has steeled his heart, and made him so unrelenting, so haughty? What can have isolated him so completely?
'You don't seem very brisk, Ma, retorted Lavvy the bold. 'Brisk? repeated her parent, 'Brisk? Whence the low expression, Lavinia? If I am uncomplaining, if I am silently contented with my lot, let that suffice for my family.
The energy with which that great conflict was opened and, under the guidance of a manifest and beneficent Providence the uncomplaining endurance with which it was prosecuted to its consummation were only surpassed by the wisdom and patriotic spirit of concession which characterized all the counsels of the early fathers.
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