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The mountaineer quickly formed a loop in one end of the rope, making it large enough to permit of its slipping over the shoulders of a man.

6313

Glass was plentiful in the better houses.

2412

The one way is the positive way, when a man who suffers trouble is degraded by it.

8297

"My precious people, I've got something to tell you: are you ready?"

3853

It is remarkable that two nations, so recently sprung from the same stock, should be so opposite to one another in their manner of feeling and conversing.

1988

His prospects of success, in pleading for a favorable reception of his brother's message, were so uncertain that he refrained--in fear of raising hopes which he might not be able to justify--from taking Herbert into his confidence.

8297

"That will do, Mrs. Presty.

8297

"Is there nothing dark or sinister anywhere?

2086

"Are you really going to throw me over for a thing like this?"

6345

I confess candidly that I deceived them, as the Papa Deldimopulo used to deceive the Greeks who applied to him for the oracles of the Virgin.

3170

"Better ring again," suggested the driver.

2428

I had soon seen all I wanted of these weary and dismal thoroughfares. Here and there was a strip of discolored turf, like an old worn-out bit of woolen carpet; and now and then a bit of kitchen garden, in which grew potatoes, cabbage, and lettuce, almost diminutive enough to suggest the idea of Lilliput.

6241

"What pays you, then, for all your bother?" asked Trot.

5338

The two stray kittens gradually make themselves at home.

1988

The sweeping and broken waves came rolling in upon the pointed rocks; the gulf was surrounded by rocky walls--a mighty cliff, three thousand feet in height, remarkable for its brown strata, separated here and there by beds of tufa of a reddish hue.

6241

Then Glenarvan, taking his friends aside, said: "My dear friends, our lives and the lives of these poor women are in God's hands.

2803

And the Captain of course concluded (after having been introduced to Kitty) that Mrs. Norman was a widow.

8297

Most of my likenesses do look unamiable; but the very sufficient reason, I fancy, is, because the originals are so.

2086

And now they seemed conducted by the white, Now by the red, and from the song of her The others took their step, or slow or swift.

84

"Alas," said d'Avrigny, "she is indeed dead, poor child!"

84

ROBBING A DEAD YANKEE

5694

A black drove came up over the hill behind the wedding party.

2035

I was thinking of French.

6345

For Ambrosch my mama come here."

1993

The horse wrangler is the fellow who goes out and rounds up the ponies.

6313

A long distance; I'm dead beat."

8297

I heard something about it, too."

3752

Now she ran to Hansel, and, opening the door, called out, "Hansel we are saved; the old witch is dead?"

7976

"Here--I say, you know--don't--" he said.

6345

In the midst of his arguments he found himself at the cupboard, with the bottle at his lips, in an attitude that was at once ludicrous and horrible.

3752

Don't bother him.

6313

Then we will see what can be done."

6345

There's no sale for it.

777

We soon manage to reconcile her to her fate by the gallantry of our proceedings; encouraged by a good supper and by the stimulus of wine, prepared by our compliments and by a few kisses, she realizes what is in store for her, and does not seem to have any unconquerable objection.

3170

The two eldest ate their apples, but the youngest could not eat that night.

7976

My friends, too!" He grew more angry as he thought of the talk any action on her part would create.

2277

These strange energies and huge interests, for what purposes were they there?

2277

"Do you wish me to leave?" said Morrel, sadly.

84

"Go throw vinegar on the fire and put it out," said the captain of the thieves.

7976

The girl in the orchard would have known at a glance.

6345

"Not more than mine does!" cried the proud white Lily, leaning as heavily as she could against the strip of matting that tied her to her stick.

6319

Good-night; I'm going now." She turned and her hand closed on the door-knob.

1462

The open space which they entered was paved with pink marble and around it were two rows of large pink statues, at least life-size and beautifully sculptured.

5338

THE ARRAIGNMENT OF JEALOUSY

174

"If the boy has anything to complain of, why don't he complain?

3752

Sir Harry Towne, Mr. Bartley Alexander, the American engineer."

1462

"Hold a torch over the edge of the cliff, Master Ned," directed the guide.

6313

"As soon as possible?"

8297

And so through many questions, and many experiments, they learn at last how to use the contents of this one storehouse.

2803

"No, your Majesty," he replied; "I'm only ----"

5338

Antonia broke in: "He fight something awful!

2035

I shouldn't wonder-- But they've probably spoiled her, so that she'd be tiresome if one met her again."

1462

Come in and sit down."

1988

"Miss Milner, you shall not leave the house this evening."

3536

Then there are in all classes a very large number of men constantly occupied with the serious affairs of the government; and those whose thoughts are not engaged in the direction of the commonwealth are wholly engrossed by the acquisition of a private fortune.

1988

He is very smart boy.

1993

At the solemn hour of sunrise or sunset he took up his position, overlooking the glories of earth and facing the "Great Mystery," and there he remained, naked, erect, silent, and motionless, exposed to the elements and forces of His arming, for a night and a day to two days and nights, but rarely longer.

5536

And they know it!

2428

"Thank you, none," said North, filling a tumbler with water.

3752

He was a silent man, American born, of a Swede father, and now employed as a cleaner of refrigerator cars at the stock-yards.

2277

When he reached the suburbs, the light of homes was shining through curtains of all colors.

6295

"What's the matter here?" he asked.

3752

He would have no row.

2277

"I'm glad to give him to you, Christie; for now I feel as if I had partly paid the great debt I've owed so long," answered Letty through her tears.

3853

The Commandant, roused from slumber, told Mr. North that Kirkland might stop where he was, and that he'd thank the chaplain not to wake him up in the middle of the night because a blank prisoner set up a blank howling.

3752

Gwynplaine had yellow hair.

5895

"Am I really to understand, Mrs. Presty, that Catherine--"

8297

He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.

1993

"This is murderous."

3752

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

5536

Then they stood quite still for a time, and in the silence the two hearts talked together in the sweet language no tongue can utter. Presently David said regretfully:

3853

When an aristocracy carries on the public affairs, its national pride naturally assumes this reserved, indifferent, and haughty form, which is imitated by all the other classes of the nation.

1988

"A very fine breakfast, sir," announced the Professor, looking up at the Chinaman.

6313

Say, don't you?"

6313

She said: 'I daren't!' After that, I had her mother's authority for telling Kitty that she would never see her father again. She asked directly if her father was dead--"

8297

Pavel sat still and watched his horses.

2035

I am no dealer in poisons.

2428

The joyous convulsion of laughter was as a tribute paid; they submitted to it gladly, but almost mechanically.

5895

Then place the pan on a strong chair, or dresser, or table, of convenient height; pour into the sponge the remainder of the warm milk-and-water; stir into it as much of the flour as you can with the spoon; then wipe it out clean with your fingers, and lay it aside.

2078

In 3/4 hour look at it, and should it have swollen very much, and begin to crack, it will be light enough to bake.

2078

"Do you suppose Ruggedo destroyed them?"

1272

In the first, speaking to a person undefined, I tell how I was aroused from a vain phantasy by certain ladies, and how I promised them to tell what it was.

8842

He is brave; he is sober; he is safe; he never makes a false step; never glides or slips from his path.

6241

I threw myself at his feet to assure him of my gratitude, and embraced him calling him my father.

3170

"Maule's well!" answered Phoebe.

2086

I had been feeling mean all the morning as if I had stolen a sheep, but when the order to charge was given, I got happy.

5694

I went inside; it was time.

2428

If he had asked you about Mr. Norman, how would you have answered him?"

8297

"I told Tom we shouldn't come so late," says Hilda.

1988

The waitress brought the two thick cups of tea, and looked at him with a tepid curiosity.

6345

Every morning the old witch came to the cage and said, "Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel whether you are getting fat." But Hansel used to stretch out a bone, and the old woman, having very bad sight, thought it was his finger, and wondered very much why he did not get fat.

7976

All agreed that Tad's superior horsemanship, alone, had won the race for him.

6313

Snow, tempest, impracticable roads, rocks, icebergs--nothing stops him.

6241

So pricked me then the thorn of penitence, That of all other things the one which turned me Most to its love became the most my foe.

84

Let them remain for 2 days, changing the water twice each day, to draw out the salt.

1919

She felt the strength leap in the arms that held her so lightly.

1462

It comes in a grand, eager gush from a horizontal seam in the face of the wall of the river gorge in the form of a partially interrupted sheet nearly seventy-five yards in width, and at a height above the riverbed of about forty feet, as nearly as I could make out without the means of exact measurement.

3000

This sent a pang through his heart.

2277

That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbors came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts.

2035

This work of art was the wonder of the country ten miles round.

5338