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But there at the stern, bending low over the rail, stood the young man from Hamburg, taking it very hard indeed. "Good heavens," he said in a hollow and faltering voice, as he became aware of Tonio Kröger, "just see de tumult of de elements, sir." But then he was interrupted and turned hastily away. Tonio Kröger held on to some taut cable and looked out into all this uncontrollable exuberance.
James Faucett. Having very poor health, her only thought was to try and give him a good education. It was at the Indianapolis Dental College that he first met Jackson and became acquainted with him. By some strange and uncontrollable fatallity Walling was thrown with Jackson again in Cincinnati.
Can we say, perhaps, that these fortuitous causes are indeed the main causes in a word that wars are not desired, mainly, but are the product, indeed, either of the mere logic of chance, or of a design that transcends human will altogether? Are wars willed, or are they the results of the complex, the illogical and uncontrollable factors of the world's existence and movement?
All his life Eyraud had spent his substance in debauchery. His passions were violent and at times uncontrollable, but unlike many remarkable men of a similar temperament, this strong animalism was not in his case accompanied by a capacity for vigorous intellectual exertion or a great power of work.
And a fellow like Jefferson, full of books and literary lore he'd be breaking off work half his time to talk Montaigne and Samuel Johnson and and Bernard Shaw with you. And you'd drink it all in with those eyes of yours and make him think " Georgiana's uncontrollable laughter halted but did not stop him. "What's his work, anyhow?
Then Eleanor turned to Lucy, and the girl, with a great sob, leant against her dress, and burst into uncontrollable tears. 'Has she been long here? said Eleanor, caressing the black hair. 'Very nearly an hour, I think. It seemed interminable. She has been telling me of her enemies her unhappiness how all her letters are opened how everybody hates her especially Mr. Manisty.
"Quaintly enough, if there's anything in the theory of heredity, David, my hands have been stained with no man's blood before to-night. Yet my forebears were a murderous lot.... Until this hour I never realised how swift and uncontrollable could be the impulse to slay...." His voice trailed off into silence and he sat staring into the flickering flames that played about the driftwood.
Of this number the greater proportion were Calvinists, and of these Calvinists there were thousands looking down from the battlements upon the disastrous fight. The excitement soon became uncontrollable.
In the lawyer's from uncontrollable laughter, in the magistrate's from still more uncontrollable consternation. This woman had indeed wreaked a monstrous vengeance. The good magistrate felt like a boy thrashed at school, who fears that his folks at home may learn the whole truth.
Uncontrolled and uncontrollable, she swung swiftly round to starboard, struck a mine, and inside three minutes she was lying on the mud.
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