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Men crowding around and striving to see, paused, with up-turned faces, listening to the emotionless young voice. There was no shouting, no sound save the trample and shuffle of feet; scarcely a voice raised, scarcely an exclamation. As Craig lowered her to the pavement, a man making his way out said to them: "Well, I guess that ends it." Somebody replied quietly: "I guess that begins it."
And above this sand, above this sea of dead dust, the huge head of the Egyptian Sphinx rears itself aloft. What is it that those vast, protruding lips, those impassively-dilated, up-turned nostrils, and those eyes, those long, half-sleepy, half-watchful eyes, beneath the double arch of the lofty brows, are trying to say? For they are trying to say something! Bah!
He shouted aloud. He beat the waters madly with his oars. He called upon God for one more flash of lightning. It came. He saw a distant steamer, an up-turned boat and something darker than the foam heaving upon the waters. "Hold on! Hold on! I'm coming I'm coming it's Ben it's Ben. Oh God, give me light!" He was answered.
This cabman appeared to be a man of about sixty, with a long, thin face, whose chin and drooping grey moustaches seemed in permanent repose on the up-turned collar of his old blue overcoat.
I discovered it while in quest of pond-lilies, in a long, deep level stretch of water in the woods. A large tree had blown over at the edge of the water, and its dense mass of up-turned roots, with the black, peaty soil filling the interstices, was like the fragment of a wall several feet high, rising from the edge of the languid current.
John, full of zeal, pursued one fugitive some fifty yards down the street, but his quarry, exhibiting a rare turn of speed, easily outstripped him. He came back, panting, to find Smith and the Kid examining the fallen leader of the departed ones with the aid of a match, which went out just as John arrived. The Kid struck another. The head of it fell off and dropped upon the up-turned face.
Then ah, then, Lady! when Adam had freed me from my broken helm, and lifted me in his arms, what a sight had I! Oh, what a field that harvest moon shone upon! how thickly heaped was that little mound! And there was my father's face up-turned in the white moonlight! O Lady, never in hall or bower could it have been so peaceful, or so majestic!
Seated on an up-turned bucket, drawing meditatively on his well-seasoned briarwood, he looked a perfect picture of content. Not so, however, the "little 'un," as the boys playfully addressed the dwarf. The motion of the vessel did not harmonize with peculiarities of his interior arrangements, and unless the Gem stopped rolling and pitching there was evidently trouble ahead.
There was a platform at one end, where the musicians sat when saltatory fêtes were held, and on this I mounted to 'take a view. I didn't feel called upon to admire the hall in audible terms; but as I stood there an inspiring scene arose before my mental vision a scene of up-turned faces, each representing the sum of fifteen cents, that being the regular swindle for getting into shows round here, the landlord said.
Lucy, looking at his up-turned, foreshortened, cleanly-modelled face, thought with half of her mind what a perfect thing it was. Sudden aspects of Denis's beauty sometimes struck her breathless, as they struck Peter. "The Margerison family wants money, I understand," said Denis, who hadn't been listening attentively. "Very badly, Denis." Denis nodded.
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