United States or Chile ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Nora, for a short time, sat watching her husband who was snoring loudly; then she got up and peered out at the reddening sky. Unthinkingly, she stepped from the cave and stood inhaling deeply of the fragrant morning air. Nora suddenly uttered a cry and clapped a hand to her left cheek. At the same instant, it seemed, the report of a rifle woke the echoes.
But regrets were vain, there was no use regretting; he was gone she would hear no more of the ten minutes past nine. He would go to the city no more; and in a few years he would be forgotten by every one but her. How unutterably sad, how unspeakably sad, how unthinkingly sad it all seemed, and, oh, how commonplace.
He must be at least twenty-five years old." "He is twenty-nine," replied Marian coldly. "And I am glad that he isn't as young and foolish as most of the boys I have met." "Does your mother know how you happened to meet him?" asked Jessica unthinkingly. But this was a little too much. Marian rose to her feet, her voice choking with anger.
In the interval between school life and military service the young people not only forget all that they learnt, perhaps with aptitude, in the national school, but they unthinkingly adopt distorted views of life, and in many ways become brutalized from a lack of counteracting ideals. A compulsory continuation school is therefore an absolute necessity of the age.
Directly any of us young socialists of Trinity found ourselves in immediate contact with servants or cadgers or gyps or bedders or plumbers or navvies or cabmen or railway porters we became unconsciously and unthinkingly aristocrats. Our voices altered, our gestures altered.
But the soul is even more sensitive to injury. It is marred by a word or a look. Men are responsible for the ruin they work unthinkingly! To-day the engine drops a spark behind it. To-morrow that engine is a thousand miles away. Yet the spark left behind is now a column of fire mowing down the forests. And that devastating column belongs not to another, but to that engine that hath journeyed far.
We enjoyed all these boons, unthinkingly and light-heartedly, as children do. And besides these, there was the absorbing little drama of human life which was being enacted all around us, and in which each of us played a satisfying part the gay preparations for Aunt Olivia's mid-June wedding, the excitement of practising for the concert with which our school-teacher, Mr.
And one may learn to slander one's neighbor almost as mechanically and unthinkingly as one swallows when the throat is dry. When we speak of man's impulses, we are using a vague word. There are impulses which will never be anything more. There are impulses which may become something more. There are impulses which are no longer anything more. Impulses have their psychic aspect.
As a man at night helplessly takes a taxi to find some woman, some prostitute, Herbertson had almost unthinkingly got into a taxi and come battering at the door in Covent Garden, only to talk war to Lilly, whom he knew very little. But it was a driving instinct to come and get it off his chest. And on and on he talked, over his wine and soda.
"Not many are there who would have attacked a man who held a rifle pointed at his breast. You are a brave man, sir." Unthinkingly, Stubbs clasped the hand and a moment later gave a howl of pain. "Hey! Leggo my hand!" he cried. "Ouch!"
Word Of The Day