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The Lanky's bayonet dropped from his hand, and he fell backwards. The haft of the pike striking the ground stopped him for a moment, and then he swung sideways and dropped on to his face; the pike remaining wedged in his spine, the shaft sprang into the air in a manner that was never after quite free of a suggestion of the hideously ludicrous in Jim's mind.
I had a dreary time with him yesterday. He produced some critical essays of his own, which he was thinking of making into a book. They were awfully dry, like figs which have been kept too long not a drop of juice in them. They were hideously acute, I saw that. But there wasn't any reason why they should have been written.
Little by little the moon turned to the color of blood, until it had turned completely and hideously blood red, but at dawn an unusually bright splendor shone around the circle of the moon. Soon afterward stars seemed to fall from the skies, like a heavy rain.
And, in his distraught brain, while Marie lay dying, he heard the explosion at the Fauvilles' house and saw the Prefect of Police and Mazeroux lying hideously mutilated, dead. A numbness crept over him. He fell into a sort of swoon, in which he continued to stammer confused syllables: "Florence Marie Marie " The fourth mysterious letter!
The sight of each room, once so hideously commonplace, now so charming with Anna's artistry and the work of her own hands her beautiful hands which ought to be so cared for filled him with contrition and fresh nervousness. No, she had escaped these tragedies yet she was missing. Missing, but now half an hour late.
She guessed that there must be a painful interview in progress down in the study, and her own joy if any at the return of her disgraced brother could wait. She had no two points of view. She was sorry that Dick had returned. She regretted that the forger was not dead. It was so hideously inconvenient when one wanted to get married to have a disreputable brother in the family.
He has succumbed to the most material and alas! the most hideously strong force in nature not because the woman tempted him, as it has been the fashion for man to say since the days of Adam but because there is something in himself which is so weak that it cannot listen to the promptings of the spirit when the body calls.
It represents Caesar as a defiant warrior, but in the shape of a deformed dwarf. It is hideously like him; you can see it at the Elephant tavern." The Egyptian pressed his hand, with an eager "That will serve," and hastily went out. Two hours slipped by, and Zminis was still waiting in Caesar's anteroom.
And as he said this he unwound a chain of iron that was coiled upon his saddle, and Leothric answered: 'I would fain go with you, for I am come to slay Gaznak. Then all the camel-guard of Gaznak laughed hideously, disturbing the vampires that were asleep in the measureless vault of the roof.
The Klingsor-music introducing the second act stands in picturesque contrast to the tender and thoughtful music opening the first; curiously suggesting, as it does, lawlessness, cold evil passions riding the soul hideously at a gallop. It has something vaguely in common with portions of the Venus-music in Tannhäuser, perhaps its effect at once unbridled and joyless.
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