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Yet, hoeing was murder the ruthless cutting away of tenderer plants that the sturdier might thrive the more and grow. "I hate it, Bles, don't you?" "Hate what?" "Killing any of it; it's all so pretty." "But it must be, so that what's left will be prettier, or at least more useful." "But it shouldn't be so; everything ought to have a chance to be beautiful and useful."
For, urged as well by various horrid signs about his grave, which not even its close proximity to the altar could render a place of repose, they had opened it, had found in the body every peculiarity belonging to a vampire, had pulled it out with the greatest difficulty on account of a quite supernatural ponderosity; which rendered the horse which had killed him a strong animal all but unable to drag it along, and had at last, after cutting it in pieces, and expending on the fire two hundred and sixteen great billets, succeeded in conquering its incombustibleness, and reducing it to ashes.
That was enough. Hands went up without any argument, most of them quivering as from an Arkansas chill. Presently Cranston herded the passengers in from the forward coaches. With them were most of the train crew. The front door of the car was locked so that they could not easily get out. "We're cutting off the express car and going forward to 'Dobe Wells with it.
"Then you have not heard that Petammon, one of your colleagues, has succeeded in cutting the skin, which covered the pupil of the eye and so restoring Amasis' sight?" The Egyptian started and ground his teeth; recovered his presence of mind, however, in a moment, and answered: "Then the gods have punished the father through the children." "In what way?
Zilia, as she heard these cutting words, flung back her veil, raising it on both hands till it floated behind her like a mist, and then giving a faint groan, sunk down in a swoon.
Forrest's eyes seemed to narrow a little as he looked down at it. Engleton had drawn another ace. "Forrest and I," he remarked. "Jolly low cutting, too. I have played against you often, Forrest, but I think this is our first rubber together. Here's good luck to us!" He tossed off his liqueur and sat down. They cut again for deal, and the game proceeded.
I eagerly admit that the bold, prow-like notion of the Flat Iron cutting northward is a splendid notion, an inspiring notion; it thrills. But the building itself is ugly nay, it is adverbially ugly; and no reading of poetry into it will make it otherwise. Similarly, the Metropolitan Building is tremendous. It is a grand sight, but it is an ugly sight.
Mrs. Duffer, of course, was to be there, and so the list of friends for the festive occasion was completed. Mrs. Duffer was the first to come. Her aid, indeed, was required for the cutting up of the cakes and arrangements of the cups and saucers.
We stole carefully forward and saw that we were within five rods of the bushrangers, who were seated around half a dozen fires, cooking their mutton on long sticks, and endeavoring to obtain a cessation of hostilities from the attacks of mosquitoes by beating the air wildly with their huge black fists when not engaged in cutting meat, or throwing on light brush to feed the fires.
But it was a losing game which they were playing, a part which does not suit the genius of the nation; and the superstition in favour of the English who had won so many battles with all the disadvantages on their side, cutting the finest armies to pieces was strong upon the imagination of the time. It seemed a fate which no valour or skill upon the side of the French could avert.
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