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Updated: June 1, 2025
The white-lipped generation of Edward Everett were victims, one might even say martyrs, to conscience. They suffered the most terrible martyrdom that can fall to man, a martyrdom which injured their immortal volition and dried up the springs of life.
With an exultant shout she turned and waved her hand at rigid, white-lipped Allee in the window, then slid lightly down the ladder and out of sight.
And on Sundays and holidays for of these latter he took, unasking, what he knew to be his due all day long, from cock-crowing to the going down of the sun, he would pass at Kenmuir. In this one matter the boy was invincibly stubborn. Nothing his father could say or do sufficed to break him of the habit. He endured everything with white-lipped, silent doggedness, and still held on his way.
While they waited under marching orders, they and the citizens were aroused at two o'clock one morning by the cry from the east side of the river of, "Indians, Indians." A boat was sent over and brought a white-lipped messenger, with the news of the Sioux massacre at Ft. Ridgley. My first public speech was the revelation of a talent hidden in a napkin, and I set about putting it to usury.
Mary flashed out at her, her own mind, in the same instant, leaping back to an image left on it that morning, but temporarily lost under layers of subsequent impressions. "His hat had a wide brim, you mean? and his face was pale a youngish face?" Mary pressed her, with a white-lipped intensity of interrogation.
But in that same instant, swift and lithe as a panther, Barnabas leapt, and dropping his stick, caught that slender, jewelled hand, bent it, twisted it, and wrenched the weapon from its grasp. Mr. Chichester stood motionless, white-lipped and silent, but a devil looked out of his eyes.
At last, then, the way was clear. Elsie would have mounted the stairs but an appealing hand detained her. "I cannot walk, señorita. My leg has given way. And we can do no good there. They are all down." A death chill gripped her heart at Frascuelo's words. "All down!" she repeated, white-lipped. "I think so," said he, blankly. The man was dazed by the ordeal through which he had passed.
They rode homeward together, the great beauty and the great duke, and all the town beheld; and after they had passed him where he stood, John Oxon mounted his own horse and galloped away, white-lipped and with mad eyes. "Let me escort you home," the duke had said, "that I may kneel to you there, and pour forth my heart as I have so dreamed of doing.
In the neighbourhood of settlements they make frequent forays into the maize and mandioc fields, and they will lay waste a plantation of sugar-cane in a single night. For this reason it is that a war of extermination has long been waged against them by the planters and their dependents. As already stated, it is believed that the white-lipped species is not found in North America.
We should go to the catacombs for this season, when this devil's rousing is in the air.... If you have anything further to say, purely in regard to artistic inspirations, you may go on " Vina sat rigidly before her, wan and white-lipped as if her emotions were burned out.
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