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"Will he admit them?" "I've outlined exactly what we must have deeds to his property and an acknowledged statement of the Joseph Weir and James Dent affair, supplementing the Saurez affidavit, which by the way he at first thought we did not possess but which an account of what happened last night in the mountains and your recovery of the same" Pollock's eyelid dropped for an instant towards Weir "convinced him of.
As if with an invisible hand, it dragged down the brow and the eyelid on the right; it dragged down the mouth on the same side. His arm fell helpless; his whole body, on the side under the arm, gave way. He dropped on the floor, like a man shot dead. Hester Dethridge pounced on his prostrate body knelt on his broad breast and fastened her ten fingers on his throat.
The same authority also quotes Wilson and Way of Bristol, Conn., in an account of a complete avulsion of the scalp, together with tearing of the eyelid and ear. The result of the skin-grafting was not given. Powell of Chicago gives an account of a girl of nineteen who lost her scalp while working in the Elgin Watch Factory at Elgin, Illinois.
"You lent Beaumont-Greene ten pounds, Lovell?" "Yes, sir." Scaife came in, cool, handsomer than usual because of the sparkle in his eyes. "Shut the door, Scaife. Look at me, please. Beaumont-Greene owed you money?" Scaife glanced at Lovell, whose left eyelid quivered. "Kindly stand behind Scaife, Lovell. Thank you. Answer my question, Scaife." "Yes, sir; he owed me money."
If thou canst tell as much without my assistance, I will yield the boundary-line; for it will show thee to have a calculation equal to my own, as well as riches." Al Kahlminar pondered long, suffered manifold headaches, closed not an eyelid for a week, but could not give answer. The Mystic was used to seeing only those things to see which the eyes must be closed.
The clouds fast gather, The forest-oaks roar A maiden is sitting Beside the green shore, The billows are breaking with might, with might, And she sighs aloud in the darkling night, Her eyelid heavy with weeping. "My heart's dead within me, The world is a void; To the wish it gives nothing, Each hope is destroyed.
"How was she unfortunate, godfather?" Philibert watched the cheek flush and the eyelid quiver of the fair girl as she spoke, carried away by her sympathy. His heart went with his looks. "Alas!" replied La Corne, "I would fain not answer, lest I distrust the moral government of the universe. But we are blind creatures, and God's ways are not fashioned in our ways.
When I came upon such a pair, as I frequently did, on the low branch of an apple-tree or a limb of their native cedar, I stopped instantly to look at them. Not an eyelid of the youngsters would move; if a head were turned as they heard me coming, it would remain at precisely that angle as long as I had patience to stay.
Mingled with this mood, however, was the philosophic investigation, characteristic of the man of science. Not the minutest symptom escaped him. A heightened flush of the cheek a slight irregularity of breath a quiver of the eyelid a hardly perceptible tremor through the frame such were the details which, as the moments passed, he wrote down in his folio volume.
Leaning in my roomy chair, I contemplated her at leisure while my heart kept saying 'Mine! mine! to awaken an active belief in its possession. Her face was like the quiet morning of a winter day when cloud and sun intermix and make an ardent silver, with lights of blue and faint fresh rose; and over them the beautiful fold of her full eyebrow on the eyelid like a bending upper heaven.
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