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Even the homely loom and spinning-wheel lost their uncouthness, and recalled to the mind's imagery the classic dreams of old romance Hercules in the chambers of Omphale the story of Arachne and Penelope, the faithful wife of brave Ulysses; but there was other food for the spirit which required not the aid of fancy to render palatable.
And Madison fell back to scrape acquaintance with the man of millions. Close-packed upon the road, the procession spread out for a hundred yards behind the Flopper bare-footed children; women in multi-colored gingham and calico; men in the uncouth dress of the fields, the uncouthness accentuated by the sprinkling of more pretentious clothing worn by those who had come from the train.
To her he looked more goodly than ever this afternoon, contrasted with the uncouthness of Halleck and others of her class. She watched him covertly, laughing and talking with the town girl beside him. He had laughed and talked very much like that to her, once, but he had forgotten it. That was natural; she had forgiven it long ago. Lillian Arnold, in the brightest of Easter hats, watched him, too.
A remarkable expression from some of these intrepid souls to their comrades on this occasion I must not omit, on account of its singular uncouthness; namely: 'Damme, Jack, didst thee ever take hell in tow before?" According to a French account, this aquatic infernal machine consisted of seventy rafts, boats, and schooners.
"Oh, that is it!" she cried with a little laugh, but not, I think, at my uncouthness, though she looked me over curiously. "He has not come himself, M. de Mar?" "It appears not, mademoiselle." She did not seem vastly disconcerted for all she cried in doleful tones: "Alack! alack! I have lost. And Paul is not present to enjoy his triumph.
The peasant's gravity, directness, and carelessness a kind of uncouthness which is neither graceless nor, in any intolerable English sense, vulgar are to be found in the unceremonious moments of every cisalpine woman, however elect her birth and select her conditions.
The men, who had all day been strung to a keen pitch of nervous energy, lounged in loose, picturesque uncouthness, while each began to unravel his own lively miscellany of information or invention. There was jest, laughter, spinning of yarns, singing of songs.
In uncouthness of form it outdoes those obsolete old brutes who used to roam about the semi-aqueous world, and live a most uncomfortable life with their great hungering stomachs and huge unsatisfied maws. The elevator itself consists of a big movable trunk movable as is that of an elephant, but not pliable, and less graceful even than an elephant's.
The uncouthness of my garb, my wild and weatherworn appearance, my fusil and tomahawk, could not but startle them. The woman stopped her wheel, and gazed as if a spectre had started into view. I was somewhat aware of these consequences, and endeavoured to elude them by assuming an air of supplication and humility.
And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
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