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With trained eye and carefully acquired skill, he studied the scene; impressing upon his memory every detail the rich appointments of the room; the glittering lights; the gleaming silver and crystal; the sparkling jewels and shimmering laces; the bare shoulders; the wine-flushed faces and feverish eyes; and, in the seat of honor, the disease-wasted form and repulsive, sin-marked countenance of Mr.
What we saw and heard in the palace and its courts, swarming with citizens and students, was so low and revolting that I dislike to think of it. Some of the lifeless heroes were just being borne past on litters, greeted by the wine-flushed faces of armed students and citizens.
Vandyke's pictures are full of grace and nobleness, but they do not look like Englishmen, the burly, rough, wine-flushed and weather-reddened faces, and sturdy flesh and blood, which we see even at the present day, when they must naturally have become a good deal refined from either the country gentleman or the courtier of the Stuarts' age.
What we saw and heard in the palace and its courts, swarming with citizens and students, was so low and revolting that I dislike to think of it. Some of the lifeless heroes were just being borne past on litters, greeted by the wine-flushed faces of armed students and citizens.
Caingey Thornton, who was desperately in want of a mount, after going the rounds of the old laudatory course, alluded to the threatened vapourings of the stranger, and expressed his firm belief that he would 'meet with his match, a 'taking of the bull by the horns, that met with very considerable favour from the wine-flushed party, the majority of whom, at that moment, made very 'small, in their own minds, of the biggest fence that ever was seen.
"No doubt he'll say so," opined Trenchard with a shrug, and had caution dug into his ribs by Blake's elbow, whilst Richard made haste to prove him wrong by saying the contrary. "I apprehended you exactly, sir," he answered, defiance in his voice and wine-flushed face. "Ha!" clucked Trenchard, irrepressible. "He's bent on self-destruction. Let him have his way, in God's name."
By degrees, without any laws or regulations, a little company was gathered, not of ladies and gentlemen, but of men and women, who aided each, other, and without once meeting as a whole, laboured not the less as one body in the work of the Lord, bound in one by bonds that had nothing to do with cobweb committee meetings or public dinners, chairmen or wine-flushed subscriptions.
It was while she was falling to pieces, that Ssu-K'ung T'u wrote his divinely delicate meditations. When the iron most entered her soul, she would weep, but not tear her hair or rage and grow passionate; she would condescend to be heart-broken, but never vulgar. In her gayest moments, wine-flushed and Spring-flushed, she never forgot herself to give utterance to the unseemly.
What we saw and heard in the palace and its courts, swarming with citizens and students, was so low and revolting that I dislike to think of it. Some of the lifeless heroes were just being borne past on litters, greeted by the wine-flushed faces of armed students and citizens.
'Twas at a smoke-stained tavern, and she, the hostess there A wine-flushed Syrian damsel, a turban on her hair Beat out a husky tempo from reeds in either hand, And danced the dainty wanton an Ionian saraband. "'Tis hot," she sang, "and dusty; nay, travelers, whither bound?
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