WillHeld/MLS_Full_En · Datasets at Hugging Face

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8138_11759_000712		i ran up to her and tried to lift her up but she would not let me i can't bear women's tears at the sight of them i am at my wits end at once
7424_11437_001484		the pious were charmed and penetrated with the sweetness of this doctrine while the learned received it gladly one would have said that christ the apostles and prophets were coming forth from darkness and a loathsome dungeon
204_1388_000296		grassland raf brought the flitter closer to the ground so that when a domed structure arose out of a tangle of overgrown shrubs and trees they were not more than fifty feet above it
3584_6462_002823		moses sat down and looked around on the old familiar scene there was the great fireplace where in their childish days they had sat together winter nights her fair spiritual face enlivened by the blaze while she knit and looked thoughtfully into the coals
8011_12897_000028		till the soul breathed on by an unseen unknown grace stripped of its bonds of flesh stand face to face with its god
8138_10441_000576		he showed a tendency for the more turbulent centers he went among murderers without a gun he dropped into dives protected by nothing more than the tradition of his office
7756_12259_001122		he took his way from poictiers toward bourges to fulfill the promise he had often made to himself of returning at least for a time to those he loved with unabated fondness and as he went he thought with joy of his dear mother just as he left her not
7756_12259_003447		but the brow with its heavy frown seemed the only feature that remained at rest for the eye flashed and wandered the lip quivered and the nostrils expanded as if there were an infinite multitude of emotions passing ever through the heart and writing their transient traces oil the countenance as they went
11084_11872_002316		she heard the words they woke her from her swoon of joy only donal grant what less of an only could there be in the world for her was he not the messenger who raised the dead she tried to speak but not a word would come
8778_8322_000626		chapter six the last and worst humiliation was yet to come that which put me for a long season out of humour with all human and woman nature
7756_10228_000530		be content to wait and rank will find you in its season or if not you your children peter i tell you now lest i should forget it that the list of all my moneys and other possessions in chattels or lands or ships or merchandise
6272_5635_002488		charles dickens is here sir said the waiter who knew ben two models of the curiosity shop have just gone upstairs sir his room is right over here sir
10122_10105_000239		annas looked at him in surprise noting with cold disapproval his haggard face his disordered apparel his shaking hands i am astonished he said bringing his critical gaze to a standstill upon the uneasy eyes of his son-in-law astonished indeed i may
11392_11572_000379		to the left of eugenia's was a big uncultivated field on the other side was the woods with the path which connected with her yard the children often played in the woods near by but in taking a walk persons were compelled to follow the traveled path
9984_7704_000066		neither maillard nor vice-president can restrain them except within wide limits not even except for minutes can the lion voice of mirabeau though they applaud it but ever and anon they break in upon the regeneration of france with cries of
7756_11848_002754		and i am extending my wanderings through this uncultivated but beautiful country with a hope of turning to account for others what i have myself observed
7307_9821_003242		one hadn't anticipated quite such a tremendous accession to power for one's party liberalism was swirling in like a flood i found the next few weeks very unsatisfactory and distressing
204_2738_000107		as each number is called he picks it out of the ones picked from the bag and says right if the count is right he shouts house correct pay the lucky gentleman and sell him a card for the next school the lucky gentleman generally buys one unless he has a semitic trace in his veins
8011_6045_000043		him-the ocean of human need thus drawn upwards in an apex of perfect prayer towards the throne of the father i think this his one only material show if we except the entry into jerusalem upon the ass took place in the night then the son of joseph the carpenter was crowned
8138_11255_000481		they revealed them to us one by one beckoning them out of oblivion making each tragedy seem separate and the more significant it was bitterly cold we huddled closer and shivered in our rugs and furs sometimes we dozed in a nodding fashion
7307_6921_001798		he looked at his cigarette end and threw it into the fender he was beginning to think he was holding his own in this conversation rather well after all kipps was never a good liar he was the first to break silence
8011_8634_000083		with pride he exhibited the organ to us in the class-room before ordering his assistant to remove it to the ice-chest preparatory to its being used for microscopical work in the practical class
10890_13239_001204		times he shrugged as if he'd made the point clear enough and resented the necessity of making it any plainer when the internal security of the colony is endangered he went on impatiently we do not hesitate to invoke all of our authority
8075_6951_000853		if one day or better still one night of excitement was in store for him the next day should be regarded as the unlimited future for which no man can be responsible
7756_10828_000146		you're not going yet the doctor answered mechanically and he held a glass to the old man's lips i don't want any false hope i know it's coming answered the dying man speaking against the rim of the little tumbler
4736_3949_000423		the chamber of mirrors was nearly stripped of the ornaments wdiich gave it its name the remainder being for the most part broken and cracked
9984_6221_000790		below were partly visible a fir-cone coloured brocaded silk pair of trousers socks spotted with black designs with ornamented edges and a pair of deep red thick-soled shoes
8576_10070_000159		to dig into the earth over whose surface i was compelled to pass with rapid steps nor could i turn aside to collect the plants which nature might have scattered on the way when my thoughts were anxiously employed in making provision for the day that was passing over me
8138_10551_000500		they were very dim to her vision which must have been well preserved for one of her age despite mr pugh's gallantry the overhanging foliage was dense and only enough moonlight oozed through the canopy of leaves to toss moving patterns on the lawn and paths
8576_13424_000041		and lo where'er they go behold a miracle too beautiful to tell where late the woods were bare the red-bud shakes its hair of flowering flame
9738_10402_000673		whether these are continuous or not would seem to be a question not only unanswered but for ever unanswerable from the point of view of philosophy however the discovery that a question is unanswerable is as complete an answer as any that could possibly be obtained
7307_9821_003606		i had a curious feeling that night that i had lost touch with life for a long time and had now been reminded of its quality that infernal little don's parody of my ruling phrase hate and coarse thinking stuck in my thoughts like a poisoned dart
10890_12920_000977		he entered and dropped lazily into a chair near the desk stretching his legs comfortably he had observed in stafford's manner certain signs of a subdued excitement and while he affected not to notice this there was a glint of feline humor in his eyes
4234_4513_000221		skirt when i bent forward and at a range of some ten inches emptied the remaining three loaded chambers of my revolver into the creature's left eye upchurned in bloody foam became the water of that
11722_13330_000902		or some form of lime but it is necessary to include indications of plants or animals in the above definition because some of the best fossils may be merely impressions of plants or animals
11466_13690_000141		as they stump along the roads the tacks fall out and then with the imperceptible business end sticking up they await the doomed bicyclist in one repair shop at tours i saw more than a hundred the repairer had taken out of tires that spring
7307_7533_003419		it was the first time that his attorney had shown any sign of disgust displeasure or even disapprobation since he had taken alaric's matter in hand plead what ah you're joking i know upon my soul you gave me a start
1868_1462_000664		tis old bowker's pup explained the old man whom the hard-faced maid had addressed as george she was main fond of you never seemed the same after you went away to australee she died bout a year agone tis her pup
2122_1654_000520		but he did his work tolerably well and was not so much interested in the result as to be pained at the moderate degree of his success at the time of which i write however the probability as to his success was scarcely ascertained for he had been only a fortnight at the task
9738_9959_001308		there is if i am not mistaken a certain confusion in the minds of some authors as to the relation between propositions in virtue of which an inference is valid
64_1682_000073		meantime get ye straightway to the house and to your rooms and there abide until i give ye leave to come forth again go i say father said lady anne in a breathless voice-she was as white as death and moistened her lips with her tongue before she spoke father
9418_8724_000004		they hardly ever think of the supreme maker and ruler of all things or of the wisdom of the christian faith they in no wise understand the malice and foulness of sin
8138_9069_003677		this decade from eighteen seventy one to eighteen eighty one has been crowded if time is capable of being thus described with incidents and events which may well enough be accounted remarkable to me they certainly appear strange if not wonderful
7756_10907_000036		the two had talked for a long time but the distance being somewhat great between them and the woodman he did not hear distinctly all that was said he went home however in great haste and with his wife and family made his escape and from that day the rain began to fall
2240_1610_000287		when several members of an aristocracy agree to combine they easily succeed in doing so as each of them brings great strength to the partnership the number of its members may be very limited
8576_12953_000105		and sang them with such feeling and such artistic skill that according to a publication in the french language which i have had the opportunity to examine people came from long distances to hear his wonderful voice at the divine services in beverley minster
2368_2024_000537		after listening attentively for a moment or two longer the doctor hearing nothing more threw himself on his blankets and went asleep the sky was covered with dense clouds but not a breath of air was stirring and the balloon kept in its place by only a single anchor experienced not the slightest oscillation
4800_4763_000196		still these societies sometimes had englishmen amongst their members and ways of enforcing obedience upon their subordinates which made any decision they might come to as good as carried out almost as soon as it was uttered the detective's cogitations were disturbed by higgs who had returned and now brought him in some tea
8138_9374_000637		like shakespeare tolstoy is only the highest peak or perhaps we should say the greatest magnitude among a number of writers only less distinguished than himself
8138_13979_000592		there may have been the relations and friends of perhaps a thousand men upon the scene at arlington the loss to the district of columbia itself was less than six hundred killed a group of wounded men in the amphitheatre struck the most intimate note
7756_10463_000141		the body of the unfortunate baronet had been removed and all else remained as we had seen it in the morning finally to my astonishment holmes climbed up on to the massive mantelpiece far above his head hung the few inches of red cord which were still attached to the wire
6924_13831_000041		we're trying to plug the fore tank now but she's simply whistling it away her captain wails she's sinking like a log says captain purnall in an undertone
7756_12698_003008		and what can be more painfully degrading than this propensity to devour it is a philosophy i can hardly admit replied my father the simple act of eating is surely not degrading
10122_9994_000520		of mahogany such as were made in the course of business by ward and that it contained some pieces of linen cloth which had been patched with nankeen that this linen cloth matched exactly
7424_10820_001347		it is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the christian life is too little understood that this book has been written
3595_6374_000000		it is the pure pedantic literal editions the complete works of this author or that author which are forgotten
8138_10441_000104		swinging round by denver and new orleans and then working his way northward again up to st louis and chicago and pittsburgh remembering these things the idle young flatty turned and looked at the green-coated and sunken shouldered figure
5002_9658_000448		never forget that they are your brethren they are very dear to me for they love the red men and understand the true mode of worshipping me
5002_5887_001006		first he requests me to give him an exhibition of speed then i have to ride a short distance over the rough stone-strewn plain to demonstrate the possibility of traversing a rough country after which he desires to see me ride at the slowest pace possible
2122_1654_002953		may i come in she said yes please margaret how do you feel to-day oh so much better dear margaret your kindness will make me well
204_2488_003488		the quartermaster tells me said pathfinder innocently that when a man's feelings have been harassed by so many losses there is no wiser way to soothe them than by ploughing up the soil anew in such a manner as to leave no traces of what have gone over it before
7756_13933_001502		but lying in her chair with one hand behind her head the other grasping the knob on the arm she was clearly following her thoughts intently her education left her abundant time for thinking
7756_12259_001673		her quickest gesture is so easy that it seems slow and her lightest change of attitude brings out some new perfection in her symmetry and through the whole there seems a soul a spirit shining like a light upon every thing around
10890_12239_000026		and this radiator is so placed in the machine that it receives the full draught from the air rushing through the machine as it flies the amount of water required for cooling a motor is about one and a fifth pounds per horse-power
3595_2953_003499		during which he declared his love in the most passionate terms and begged that he might be admitted into the number of those admirers whom she permitted to visit and adore her
10059_9648_000090		she went into the little dreary bedroom and threw herself on the narrow bed no tears came she lay blankly staring at the blue and green kingfisher with the text in large german letters
6794_5801_000000		oh i wish sidney could see me now at that very moment the maid knocked at the door to tell me that mr elliot was downstairs asking for me i did not hesitate a second with my heart beating wildly i trailed downstairs to sidney
3595_3142_003473		but he went away not as he came a great change had suddenly come over him he went blindly forward his knees shook under him
6272_5635_000970		the young leaves and blossoms steeping in the mist sent up a delicious odor i like surrey better and better he said the atmosphere suits me
8011_9601_000692		whenever her name was mentioned however he shook his head shrugged his shoulders and cast up his eyes which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate or joy at his deliverance
204_2488_003683		when the day dawned the cutter had the mouth of the oswego well under the lee distant about two miles and just as the morning gun from the fort was fired jasper gave the order to ease off the sheets and to bear up for his port
12107_13863_000750		they should free a captive before they touch each other to that you are admonished to conform and allah is aware of what you do
3584_2923_000765		the passions which were apt enough to rise in ellen's mind upon occasions were for the present kept effectually in check she could not forget that her days with her mother would very soon be at an end
7756_10733_000391		for three months did rachel see in her darkened room the active little figure of the frenchwoman either moving briskly about or sitting erect in her chair knitting assiduously
11722_14158_000044		sometimes the head is depressed in front with the beak flattened or rounded as in a duck or goose and occasionally in some wealden and greensand species the jaws are truncated in front in a massive
1867_1880_000120		he turned back to ronicky doone and i suppose you have overhead our entire conversation the whole lot of it said ronicky though i wasn't playing my hand at eavesdropping i couldn't help hearing you partner
2827_3673_000415		all day the search was maintained and when it was dark great numbers of men with torches searched every point far and near on that side of thebes the news had now spread far and wide
7756_11761_000318		the dead man had no one as yet to question his quietude though there was a sense of stirring everywhereattic windows opening milk frothing into jugs at kitchen steps carts lumbering lazily over the cobbles
11466_11693_000050		it can't be done tommy my boy said the letter-carrier you may as well make up your mind to spend the entire week among the upper ten take advantage of your privileges as they come for there s no telling when new honors will seek you out
8138_10246_000474		has not the greatest of teachers himself told us that not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileth a man
3595_3568_000461		and bore the sleeping verezzi to the place where a chariot waited to convey the vindictive zastrozzi's prey to the place of its destination
5002_8658_003217		the indians in the meantime yelling like infernal spirits as this scene appeared too shocking for me to behold i retired to my lodging both sore and sorry
6272_5635_000286		life in surrey must be dull how could i forget or enjoy i put the curtains down and told temperance who was wandering about not to call me to dinner i determined if possible to surpass my dullness by indulgence
3595_2953_001030		the first source of their difference was an unlucky remark of the painter who observed that the partridge of which he was then eating had the finest relish of any he had ever tasted
13450_14020_000118		i stopped and took aim the serpent evidently understood my attitude perfectly for unwinding himself he began to crawl with all his speed towards me between us there was fortunately an obstacle a fallen chestnut tree
1868_1352_000236		answer and for thine own sake i say speak all the truth for i am not minded to hear lies upon this matter it was by accident oh queen i answered i knew naught of it
3020_2618_000081		it should be of the right size to fit his head easily and nicely so that the nose band will not be too tight or too low never put a rope halter on an unbroken colt under any circumstances whatever
64_9026_000257		it happened to be one of the textbooks in use at trinity when isaac heard lectures on sanderson he found he knew the book a deal better than the tutor a thing the tutor shortly acknowledged before the class this caused young mr newton to stand out as a prodigy
204_2738_000586		over the wire i tapped d two thirty eight battery target seventeen range six thousand three degrees thirty minutes left salvo fire
7424_7222_000585		but i am conscious there is something wrong still i am conscious that this life of rest and victory is not really mine before christ got his life of rest and victory on the throne he had to die and give up all
7756_12968_002277		he is going away she thought but he shall have his chance the poor young man you will not think it very rude mr holroyd she said rising it will not disturb you if i practise there is a piece which i am to play at a school concert to-morrow and do not yet know it
11274_12027_000003		that's different you're only a kid a kid this was too much and what about you you think you're so grown up the twins glared at one another then without any reason glares suddenly turned to smiles followed by unexplained uncontrolled laughter
3584_6462_000964		such a bloom is on her cheek at this moment as she is working away copying a bunch of scarlet rock columbine which is in a wine-glass of water before her
9738_9959_001049		for nine and ten will both be succeeded by the middle class and being itself the null class it is in order to prevent such arithmetical catastrophes that we require the axiom of infinity
2827_3870_001500		with sainte aldegonde came all the english and scotch troops in antwerp under balfour and morgan and many volunteers among whom was ned martin with hohenlohe came prince maurice william the silent's son a lad of eighteen
10955_10949_000345		in the midst of the fair about four o'clock a din of horns beaten kettles and hideous yelling broke out in troy i met the crowd in the main street and for a moment felt afraid of it
2060_1638_000234		well i have done my best said philip dipping a long slice of sugar into his cup and watching the brown liquid ascend into it i shall face my mother with a good conscience will you bear me witness that i've done my best my poor fellow i will he laid a sympathetic hand on philip's knee
1867_1605_001114		yes the hand of bard whipped under his head there was a gleam and whirl of steel an explosion and the bit of paper came fluttering slowly down from the rafter like a wounded bird struggling to keep upon the air
3595_3568_000220		as she spoke this a sort of desperate serenity overspread her features she seized the physician's arm and looked steadfastly on his countenance
5002_9658_001134		still he pressed forward waving his sword and cheering his soldiers to the attack when a third shot lodged deep within his breast he paused reeled and staggering to one side fell to the earth

8138_11759_000712

i ran up to her and tried to lift her up but she would not let me i can't bear women's tears at the sight of them i am at my wits end at once

7424_11437_001484

the pious were charmed and penetrated with the sweetness of this doctrine while the learned received it gladly one would have said that christ the apostles and prophets were coming forth from darkness and a loathsome dungeon

204_1388_000296

grassland raf brought the flitter closer to the ground so that when a domed structure arose out of a tangle of overgrown shrubs and trees they were not more than fifty feet above it

3584_6462_002823

moses sat down and looked around on the old familiar scene there was the great fireplace where in their childish days they had sat together winter nights her fair spiritual face enlivened by the blaze while she knit and looked thoughtfully into the coals

8011_12897_000028

till the soul breathed on by an unseen unknown grace stripped of its bonds of flesh stand face to face with its god

8138_10441_000576

he showed a tendency for the more turbulent centers he went among murderers without a gun he dropped into dives protected by nothing more than the tradition of his office

7756_12259_001122

he took his way from poictiers toward bourges to fulfill the promise he had often made to himself of returning at least for a time to those he loved with unabated fondness and as he went he thought with joy of his dear mother just as he left her not

7756_12259_003447

but the brow with its heavy frown seemed the only feature that remained at rest for the eye flashed and wandered the lip quivered and the nostrils expanded as if there were an infinite multitude of emotions passing ever through the heart and writing their transient traces oil the countenance as they went

11084_11872_002316

she heard the words they woke her from her swoon of joy only donal grant what less of an only could there be in the world for her was he not the messenger who raised the dead she tried to speak but not a word would come

8778_8322_000626

chapter six the last and worst humiliation was yet to come that which put me for a long season out of humour with all human and woman nature

7756_10228_000530

be content to wait and rank will find you in its season or if not you your children peter i tell you now lest i should forget it that the list of all my moneys and other possessions in chattels or lands or ships or merchandise

6272_5635_002488

charles dickens is here sir said the waiter who knew ben two models of the curiosity shop have just gone upstairs sir his room is right over here sir

10122_10105_000239

annas looked at him in surprise noting with cold disapproval his haggard face his disordered apparel his shaking hands i am astonished he said bringing his critical gaze to a standstill upon the uneasy eyes of his son-in-law astonished indeed i may

11392_11572_000379

to the left of eugenia's was a big uncultivated field on the other side was the woods with the path which connected with her yard the children often played in the woods near by but in taking a walk persons were compelled to follow the traveled path

9984_7704_000066

neither maillard nor vice-president can restrain them except within wide limits not even except for minutes can the lion voice of mirabeau though they applaud it but ever and anon they break in upon the regeneration of france with cries of

7756_11848_002754

and i am extending my wanderings through this uncultivated but beautiful country with a hope of turning to account for others what i have myself observed

7307_9821_003242

one hadn't anticipated quite such a tremendous accession to power for one's party liberalism was swirling in like a flood i found the next few weeks very unsatisfactory and distressing

204_2738_000107

as each number is called he picks it out of the ones picked from the bag and says right if the count is right he shouts house correct pay the lucky gentleman and sell him a card for the next school the lucky gentleman generally buys one unless he has a semitic trace in his veins

8011_6045_000043

him-the ocean of human need thus drawn upwards in an apex of perfect prayer towards the throne of the father i think this his one only material show if we except the entry into jerusalem upon the ass took place in the night then the son of joseph the carpenter was crowned

8138_11255_000481

they revealed them to us one by one beckoning them out of oblivion making each tragedy seem separate and the more significant it was bitterly cold we huddled closer and shivered in our rugs and furs sometimes we dozed in a nodding fashion

7307_6921_001798

he looked at his cigarette end and threw it into the fender he was beginning to think he was holding his own in this conversation rather well after all kipps was never a good liar he was the first to break silence

8011_8634_000083

with pride he exhibited the organ to us in the class-room before ordering his assistant to remove it to the ice-chest preparatory to its being used for microscopical work in the practical class

10890_13239_001204

times he shrugged as if he'd made the point clear enough and resented the necessity of making it any plainer when the internal security of the colony is endangered he went on impatiently we do not hesitate to invoke all of our authority

8075_6951_000853

if one day or better still one night of excitement was in store for him the next day should be regarded as the unlimited future for which no man can be responsible

7756_10828_000146

you're not going yet the doctor answered mechanically and he held a glass to the old man's lips i don't want any false hope i know it's coming answered the dying man speaking against the rim of the little tumbler

4736_3949_000423

the chamber of mirrors was nearly stripped of the ornaments wdiich gave it its name the remainder being for the most part broken and cracked

9984_6221_000790

below were partly visible a fir-cone coloured brocaded silk pair of trousers socks spotted with black designs with ornamented edges and a pair of deep red thick-soled shoes

8576_10070_000159

to dig into the earth over whose surface i was compelled to pass with rapid steps nor could i turn aside to collect the plants which nature might have scattered on the way when my thoughts were anxiously employed in making provision for the day that was passing over me

8138_10551_000500

they were very dim to her vision which must have been well preserved for one of her age despite mr pugh's gallantry the overhanging foliage was dense and only enough moonlight oozed through the canopy of leaves to toss moving patterns on the lawn and paths

8576_13424_000041

and lo where'er they go behold a miracle too beautiful to tell where late the woods were bare the red-bud shakes its hair of flowering flame

9738_10402_000673

whether these are continuous or not would seem to be a question not only unanswered but for ever unanswerable from the point of view of philosophy however the discovery that a question is unanswerable is as complete an answer as any that could possibly be obtained

7307_9821_003606

i had a curious feeling that night that i had lost touch with life for a long time and had now been reminded of its quality that infernal little don's parody of my ruling phrase hate and coarse thinking stuck in my thoughts like a poisoned dart

10890_12920_000977

he entered and dropped lazily into a chair near the desk stretching his legs comfortably he had observed in stafford's manner certain signs of a subdued excitement and while he affected not to notice this there was a glint of feline humor in his eyes

4234_4513_000221

skirt when i bent forward and at a range of some ten inches emptied the remaining three loaded chambers of my revolver into the creature's left eye upchurned in bloody foam became the water of that

11722_13330_000902

or some form of lime but it is necessary to include indications of plants or animals in the above definition because some of the best fossils may be merely impressions of plants or animals

11466_13690_000141

as they stump along the roads the tacks fall out and then with the imperceptible business end sticking up they await the doomed bicyclist in one repair shop at tours i saw more than a hundred the repairer had taken out of tires that spring

7307_7533_003419

it was the first time that his attorney had shown any sign of disgust displeasure or even disapprobation since he had taken alaric's matter in hand plead what ah you're joking i know upon my soul you gave me a start

1868_1462_000664

tis old bowker's pup explained the old man whom the hard-faced maid had addressed as george she was main fond of you never seemed the same after you went away to australee she died bout a year agone tis her pup

2122_1654_000520

but he did his work tolerably well and was not so much interested in the result as to be pained at the moderate degree of his success at the time of which i write however the probability as to his success was scarcely ascertained for he had been only a fortnight at the task

9738_9959_001308

there is if i am not mistaken a certain confusion in the minds of some authors as to the relation between propositions in virtue of which an inference is valid

64_1682_000073

meantime get ye straightway to the house and to your rooms and there abide until i give ye leave to come forth again go i say father said lady anne in a breathless voice-she was as white as death and moistened her lips with her tongue before she spoke father

9418_8724_000004

they hardly ever think of the supreme maker and ruler of all things or of the wisdom of the christian faith they in no wise understand the malice and foulness of sin

8138_9069_003677

this decade from eighteen seventy one to eighteen eighty one has been crowded if time is capable of being thus described with incidents and events which may well enough be accounted remarkable to me they certainly appear strange if not wonderful

7756_10907_000036

the two had talked for a long time but the distance being somewhat great between them and the woodman he did not hear distinctly all that was said he went home however in great haste and with his wife and family made his escape and from that day the rain began to fall

2240_1610_000287

when several members of an aristocracy agree to combine they easily succeed in doing so as each of them brings great strength to the partnership the number of its members may be very limited

8576_12953_000105

and sang them with such feeling and such artistic skill that according to a publication in the french language which i have had the opportunity to examine people came from long distances to hear his wonderful voice at the divine services in beverley minster

2368_2024_000537

after listening attentively for a moment or two longer the doctor hearing nothing more threw himself on his blankets and went asleep the sky was covered with dense clouds but not a breath of air was stirring and the balloon kept in its place by only a single anchor experienced not the slightest oscillation

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still these societies sometimes had englishmen amongst their members and ways of enforcing obedience upon their subordinates which made any decision they might come to as good as carried out almost as soon as it was uttered the detective's cogitations were disturbed by higgs who had returned and now brought him in some tea

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like shakespeare tolstoy is only the highest peak or perhaps we should say the greatest magnitude among a number of writers only less distinguished than himself

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there may have been the relations and friends of perhaps a thousand men upon the scene at arlington the loss to the district of columbia itself was less than six hundred killed a group of wounded men in the amphitheatre struck the most intimate note

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the body of the unfortunate baronet had been removed and all else remained as we had seen it in the morning finally to my astonishment holmes climbed up on to the massive mantelpiece far above his head hung the few inches of red cord which were still attached to the wire

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we're trying to plug the fore tank now but she's simply whistling it away her captain wails she's sinking like a log says captain purnall in an undertone

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and what can be more painfully degrading than this propensity to devour it is a philosophy i can hardly admit replied my father the simple act of eating is surely not degrading

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of mahogany such as were made in the course of business by ward and that it contained some pieces of linen cloth which had been patched with nankeen that this linen cloth matched exactly

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it is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the christian life is too little understood that this book has been written

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it is the pure pedantic literal editions the complete works of this author or that author which are forgotten

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swinging round by denver and new orleans and then working his way northward again up to st louis and chicago and pittsburgh remembering these things the idle young flatty turned and looked at the green-coated and sunken shouldered figure

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never forget that they are your brethren they are very dear to me for they love the red men and understand the true mode of worshipping me

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first he requests me to give him an exhibition of speed then i have to ride a short distance over the rough stone-strewn plain to demonstrate the possibility of traversing a rough country after which he desires to see me ride at the slowest pace possible

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may i come in she said yes please margaret how do you feel to-day oh so much better dear margaret your kindness will make me well

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the quartermaster tells me said pathfinder innocently that when a man's feelings have been harassed by so many losses there is no wiser way to soothe them than by ploughing up the soil anew in such a manner as to leave no traces of what have gone over it before

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but lying in her chair with one hand behind her head the other grasping the knob on the arm she was clearly following her thoughts intently her education left her abundant time for thinking

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her quickest gesture is so easy that it seems slow and her lightest change of attitude brings out some new perfection in her symmetry and through the whole there seems a soul a spirit shining like a light upon every thing around

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and this radiator is so placed in the machine that it receives the full draught from the air rushing through the machine as it flies the amount of water required for cooling a motor is about one and a fifth pounds per horse-power

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during which he declared his love in the most passionate terms and begged that he might be admitted into the number of those admirers whom she permitted to visit and adore her

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she went into the little dreary bedroom and threw herself on the narrow bed no tears came she lay blankly staring at the blue and green kingfisher with the text in large german letters

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oh i wish sidney could see me now at that very moment the maid knocked at the door to tell me that mr elliot was downstairs asking for me i did not hesitate a second with my heart beating wildly i trailed downstairs to sidney

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but he went away not as he came a great change had suddenly come over him he went blindly forward his knees shook under him

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the young leaves and blossoms steeping in the mist sent up a delicious odor i like surrey better and better he said the atmosphere suits me

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whenever her name was mentioned however he shook his head shrugged his shoulders and cast up his eyes which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate or joy at his deliverance

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when the day dawned the cutter had the mouth of the oswego well under the lee distant about two miles and just as the morning gun from the fort was fired jasper gave the order to ease off the sheets and to bear up for his port

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they should free a captive before they touch each other to that you are admonished to conform and allah is aware of what you do

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the passions which were apt enough to rise in ellen's mind upon occasions were for the present kept effectually in check she could not forget that her days with her mother would very soon be at an end

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for three months did rachel see in her darkened room the active little figure of the frenchwoman either moving briskly about or sitting erect in her chair knitting assiduously

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sometimes the head is depressed in front with the beak flattened or rounded as in a duck or goose and occasionally in some wealden and greensand species the jaws are truncated in front in a massive

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he turned back to ronicky doone and i suppose you have overhead our entire conversation the whole lot of it said ronicky though i wasn't playing my hand at eavesdropping i couldn't help hearing you partner

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all day the search was maintained and when it was dark great numbers of men with torches searched every point far and near on that side of thebes the news had now spread far and wide

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the dead man had no one as yet to question his quietude though there was a sense of stirring everywhereattic windows opening milk frothing into jugs at kitchen steps carts lumbering lazily over the cobbles

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it can't be done tommy my boy said the letter-carrier you may as well make up your mind to spend the entire week among the upper ten take advantage of your privileges as they come for there s no telling when new honors will seek you out

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has not the greatest of teachers himself told us that not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileth a man

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and bore the sleeping verezzi to the place where a chariot waited to convey the vindictive zastrozzi's prey to the place of its destination

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the indians in the meantime yelling like infernal spirits as this scene appeared too shocking for me to behold i retired to my lodging both sore and sorry

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life in surrey must be dull how could i forget or enjoy i put the curtains down and told temperance who was wandering about not to call me to dinner i determined if possible to surpass my dullness by indulgence

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the first source of their difference was an unlucky remark of the painter who observed that the partridge of which he was then eating had the finest relish of any he had ever tasted

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i stopped and took aim the serpent evidently understood my attitude perfectly for unwinding himself he began to crawl with all his speed towards me between us there was fortunately an obstacle a fallen chestnut tree

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answer and for thine own sake i say speak all the truth for i am not minded to hear lies upon this matter it was by accident oh queen i answered i knew naught of it

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it should be of the right size to fit his head easily and nicely so that the nose band will not be too tight or too low never put a rope halter on an unbroken colt under any circumstances whatever

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it happened to be one of the textbooks in use at trinity when isaac heard lectures on sanderson he found he knew the book a deal better than the tutor a thing the tutor shortly acknowledged before the class this caused young mr newton to stand out as a prodigy

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over the wire i tapped d two thirty eight battery target seventeen range six thousand three degrees thirty minutes left salvo fire

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but i am conscious there is something wrong still i am conscious that this life of rest and victory is not really mine before christ got his life of rest and victory on the throne he had to die and give up all

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he is going away she thought but he shall have his chance the poor young man you will not think it very rude mr holroyd she said rising it will not disturb you if i practise there is a piece which i am to play at a school concert to-morrow and do not yet know it

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that's different you're only a kid a kid this was too much and what about you you think you're so grown up the twins glared at one another then without any reason glares suddenly turned to smiles followed by unexplained uncontrolled laughter

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such a bloom is on her cheek at this moment as she is working away copying a bunch of scarlet rock columbine which is in a wine-glass of water before her

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for nine and ten will both be succeeded by the middle class and being itself the null class it is in order to prevent such arithmetical catastrophes that we require the axiom of infinity

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with sainte aldegonde came all the english and scotch troops in antwerp under balfour and morgan and many volunteers among whom was ned martin with hohenlohe came prince maurice william the silent's son a lad of eighteen

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in the midst of the fair about four o'clock a din of horns beaten kettles and hideous yelling broke out in troy i met the crowd in the main street and for a moment felt afraid of it

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well i have done my best said philip dipping a long slice of sugar into his cup and watching the brown liquid ascend into it i shall face my mother with a good conscience will you bear me witness that i've done my best my poor fellow i will he laid a sympathetic hand on philip's knee

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yes the hand of bard whipped under his head there was a gleam and whirl of steel an explosion and the bit of paper came fluttering slowly down from the rafter like a wounded bird struggling to keep upon the air

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as she spoke this a sort of desperate serenity overspread her features she seized the physician's arm and looked steadfastly on his countenance

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still he pressed forward waving his sword and cheering his soldiers to the attack when a third shot lodged deep within his breast he paused reeled and staggering to one side fell to the earth

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