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Even strange birds of passage flying in at his hospitable window, would espy him unscared, and sometimes partake of the food he had always at hand to offer them. He relied, indeed, for the pleasures of social intercourse with the animal world, on stray visits alone; he had no pets dog nor cat nor bird; for his wandering and danger haunted life did not allow such companionship.
And the birds of the groves, too, how beautiful were they, and how joyous did they seem! What variegated plumage did they display, as they flew past the Lady Nisida, unscared by her presence!
Much of the stuff that fables and fairy tales are made of was the actual furnishment of his visible world unbroken leagues of lofty timber that had never heard the ring of an axe; sylvan labyrinths where the buck and doe were only half afraid; copses alive with small game; rare openings where the squatter's wooden ploughshare lay forgotten; dark chasms scintillant with the treasures of the chemist, if not of the lapidary; outlooks that opened upon great seas of billowing forest, whence blue mountains peered up, sank and rose again like ocean monsters at play; glens where the she-bear suckled her drowsing cubs to the plash of yeasty waterfalls that leapt and whimpered to be in human service, but wherein the otter played all day unscared; crags where the eagle nested; defiles that echoed the howl of wolves unhunted, though the very stones cried out their open secret of immeasurable wealth; narrow vales where the mountain cabin sent up its blue thread of smoke, and in its lonely patch strong weeds and emaciated corn and cotton pushed one another down among the big clods; and vast cliffs from whose bushy brows the armed moonshiner watched the bridle-path below.
The women and children, unscared by the balls flying in every direction, or by the hand-to-hand conflicts on the ramparts; passed steadily to and fro from the arsenals to the fortifications, constantly supplying their fathers, husbands, and brothers with powder and ball. Thus, every human being in the city that could walk had become a soldier. At last darkness fell upon the scene.
The dying man, who had thus summed up the outcome of a long and busy life, ceased his reflections, and when the child saw that he was vainly trying to turn his powerless head towards her, she threw her arms round him with passionate grief; unscared by his fixed gaze or the altered hue of his beloved face, she kissed his lips and cheeks, exclaiming: "Grandfather, dear grandfather, do not leave us; stay with us, pray, pray stay with us!"
I rose from the thanksgiving took a resolve and lay down, unscared, enlightened eager but for the daylight. The Mighty Spirit, who was Jane Eyre's God, had directed her not to go to India as St. John's bride to save souls from damnation by conversion to Jehovah, but to set off that very day to Rochester at Thornfield Hall.
He was neither violent nor remiss, Neither hard nor soft. Gently he spread his instructions abroad, And all dignities and riches were concentrated in him. He displayed everywhere his valour, Unshaken, unmoved, Unterrified, unscared: All dignities were united in him. The martial king displayed his banner, And with reverence grasped his axe.
Out of it all she had brought but the knowledge that this matter of beauty, with which, by some blessed chance, she was endowed, was worth much precious money in the world's market worth all the dresses she could ever desire, worth jewels and horses and servants, adoration and adulation everything, in fact, the world calls fine, and the devil offers to those who, unscared by his inherent ugliness, will fall down and worship him.
Timothy unscared by the wonder of the mountain nymphs, who deemed a being of the masculine gender as an intruder, scarce to be tolerated, on the mysteries of the culinary art had exerted his whole skill, and brought forth all the contents of his canteen! We had a superb steak of the fattest venison, graced by cranberries stewed with cayenne pepper, and sliced lemons.
I called to congratulate you on your career, which has been a honest and a good one unscared and unmoved by Secesh in front of you and Abbolish at the back of you each one of which is a little wuss than the other if possible! "Tell E. Stanton that his boldness, honesty, and vigger merits all praise, but to keep his under-garments on.
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