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Nothing was overhead, nothing under foot, nothing on either hand, but the same pale, faint, bluish glimmer. She wept at last, then grew very angry, and then sullen; but nobody heeded whether she cried or laughed. It was all the same to the cold unmoving twilight that rounded her. On and on went the dreary hours or did they go at all?
Once she was out of danger I collapsed physically, and lay in bed for a week unmoving, and then rose to face a struggle which lasted for three years and two months, and nearly cost me my life, the struggle which transformed me from a Christian into an Atheist.
From time to time the flame of the sinking fires leaping up shed its hot reflection on the dark bronze face, enabling me to distinguish its sphinx-like lineaments and its shining eyes, as unmoving as the rest of the features. "What am I to think?
And the men had killed it in a fierce battle, but his father lay bloodied and unmoving. Barabbas had stood for a long time -alone, shaken but not from fear -then had taken the two of them aside. His heavy hands said simply, 'I am your father now. He had turned to walk away, then turned again and said. 'I am sorry. A sob made him breathe heavily and drop his head: a single tear.
Their mother told them that the butterfly was sometimes considered a type of immortality. In this world we are, like the worm, in an inferior state of existence. Our bodies are laid in the grave, but we are not dead, any more than the unmoving chrysalis which remained so long on the mantel just where it was placed was dead.
The unmoving figure at her side was no longer simply an object upon which her eyes dwelt without recognition, but the man she loved and was sending away, and the hand which rested on his shoulder must no longer lie there idle.
For a space of ten seconds or so he remained unmoving, the tray in his hand and his eyes regarding the visitors fixedly. Behind him in the rear of the saloon a second man had sprung up from the table where he sat, but after that first startled action he, too, had not stirred. The man was Sorenson. With Madden at his side and with a grim smile on his lips Weir walked slowly towards Vorse.
A wave of greetings swept the place. Across one end of the room gleamed a huge electric sign, "Happy New Year" and lying hunched forward with his face on the keyboard of the instrument sagged the unmoving figure of Paul Burton.
To stand there in the night, suffering acutely from the cold, unmoving, staring fascinated across the little stretch of desolation between the lines and to watch fanciful shadows until the mind falls prey to apprehensive imagination construing the posts and wiring into great fantastic grey-cloaked figures. Then at the turn of the head WHAT is that?
'What? he challenged. 'Bully me, she muttered, and even as her lips were moving, his hand had caught her smack at the side of the face and she was sent up against the door. 'Father! cried Gudrun in a high voice, 'it is impossible! He stood unmoving. Ursula recovered, her hand was on the door handle. She slowly drew herself up. He seemed doubtful now.
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