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They at least LOOK as if they were going to last. The full-blown roses do not." Lady Cantourne gave a little sigh. This was the difference between them. She could not watch without an occasional thought for a time that was no more. The man seemed to be content that the past had been lived through and would never renew itself. "After all," she said, "she is my sister's child.
"Hoots! I hae seen the rose mony a time. Nae doobt it's bonnier to luik at " and here her fingers went moving about as if they were feeling the full-blown sphere of a rose "but I think, for my pairt, that the minnonette's likest Him." "May be," was all Annie's reply, and Tibbie went on. "There maun be faces liker him nor ithers. "Hoo can ye ken that? ye never saw him." "Never saw him!
Formerly, that highly intelligent and exceedingly beautiful girl, inebriated with honeyed wines, used bashfully to embrace her lord, and kiss the face of Subhadra's son, that face which resembled a full-blown lotus and which was supported on a neck adorned with three lines like those of a conch-shell.
It was all so different from what it's supposed to be. On the stage, or in books, a proposal is how shall I put it? a full-blown affair, a kind of bouquet; it loses its literal meaning. But in life a proposal really is a proposal " "By the way " " a suggestion, a seed," she concluded; and the thought flew away into darkness.
Erskine was promoted, until in course of time he returned to his native city a full-blown general. To return to my father's education. After he left "Mammy Smith's, he went for a short time to the original High School.
This was highly gratifying to me, for I had tried my best to be helpful to all, as far as my limited abilities would let me; nor do I think I had an enemy in the ship. Behold me, then, a full-blown "mister," with a definite substantial increase in my prospects of pay of nearly one-third, in addition to many other advantages, which, under the new captain, promised exceedingly well.
What clandestine arrangements had been going on in his absence to produce such a full-blown intention it were futile to guess. Paula's course was a race rather than a march, and each successive heat was startling in its eclipse of that which went before.
But one can no more think of a full-blown civilization without tailors than one can imagine a complex state of society in which, for example, the contemporary Saturday Evening Post would publish its Exclusive Saturday Evening Styles, and gentlemen would habitually buy their patterns by bust-measure and cut out their new suits at home on the dining-room table.
The transept and the greater part of the nave are of the century following, and of the early thirteenth, and finally the three arcades, by which the nave is entered, are something very akin to the full-blown Renaissance of the fifteenth century. The general plan is symmetrical, and severe, only the twenty chapels being ungracefully disposed. Ten of these are in the choir and ten in the nave.
I don't doubt the Poor Relation thought it was all very fine, if she happened to have been in the church; but if the worthy man who uttered these monstrous words monstrous in such a connection had known the ludicrous surprise, the convulsion of inward disgust and contempt, that seized upon many of the persons who were present, had guessed what a sudden flash of light it threw on the Dutch gilding, the pinchbeck, the shabby, perking pretension belonging to certain social layers, so inherent in their whole mode of being, that the holiest offices of religion cannot exclude its impertinences, the good man would have given his marriage-fee twice over to recall that superb and full-blown vulgarism.
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