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To put a finishing-touch to it, though the lady walked with modestly downcast eyes there was a sly and merry smile on her face. If she had lingered a moment longer, she would perhaps not have been allowed to enter the cathedral. But she succeeded in slipping by, and entering the building, gradually pressed forward.
He isn't as bad as Rand-Brown quite but he's pretty nearly as finished a little beast as you could find." "Finished is just the word," said Trevor. "He's going at the end of the week." "Going? What! sacked?" "Yes. The Old Man's been finding out things about him, apparently, and this smoking row has just added the finishing-touch to his discoveries.
To put the finishing-touch to the picture, the grey tower of Gawin Douglas's Cathedral, still and solemn, kept watch over the tomb of the Wolf of Badenoch. But Dunkeld was not the Queen's destination. She was going still farther into the Highlands.
I am not comfortable and I am not fortunate, and disagreeable things are always happening, and if I can't die soon," I went on waxing quite tragic, "I'll run away." I stopped short after this, thinking I had put a splendid finishing-touch to my out-spoken determination. I do not know whether I expected Mr. Dalton to faint with fright and surprise on hearing such a daring declaration from me.
"Thank God, I did!" "I don't blame you, girl. You might do worse but not much." "That's what you'd need for your finishing-touch, a girl like me dragging you down." "You mean pulling me up." "Yes, maybe, if you didn't have a cent." "I'd have enough sense then to know better than to ask you, honey. You 'ain't got that fourteen-carat look in your eye for nothing.
The allies had now completed their task, they had restored to France its legitimate king, and they now put the finishing-touch to their work by providing in the treaty, that France should be narrowed down to the boundaries it had had before the revolution. France was compelled to conform to the will of its vanquishers.
One year, that she might make all fully clear and put the finishing-touch on her life's work. For Death was too prompt for Mamsell Fredrika. There was a storm outside on that New Year's night; there was a storm within her soul. She felt all the agony of life and death coming to a crisis. "Anguish!" she sighed, "anguish!"
He went home, and there was the church, all ready except the very top of the weather-cock, and the Troll was just putting the finishing-touch to that. Then St. Olaf called out to him, "Oh! ho! Wind and Weather, you have set the spire crooked!" And then, with a great noise, the Troll fell down from the steeple and broke into pieces, and every piece was a flint-stone.
French camp-surgeons have acquired skill and experience in their great military expeditions; there their studies receive the finishing-touch, whereas the little skill and practice which I had came entirely from the clinic and the dissecting-table.
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