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...r dinghy. He’s taken a couple of nephews with him, and he’s lolling in the stern like a commodore,” said Hitchcock. “That’s all right. He’s got someth... ...oot. His body -he was really sorry for its gross helplessness – lay in the stern, the water rushing about its knees. “How very ridiculous!” he said to...

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...r dinghy. He’s taken a couple of nephews with him, and he’s lolling in the stern like a commodore,” said Hitchcock. “That’s all right. He’s got someth... ... foot. His body—he was really sorry for its gross helplessness— lay in the stern, the water rushing about its knees. “How very ridiculous!” he said to... ...s of the ship are long iron girders, so to speak, that run lengthways from stern to bow. They keep the iron frames (what are called ribs in a wooden s... ...ght; but they did their best as a fluttering jar swept along the ship from stern to bow, and she shook like a rat in a terrier’s mouth. An unusually s... ...the bearings that supported the fifty feet of screw-shaft as it ran to the stern whispered: “Justice—give us justice.” “I can only give you what I can... ... descent. A huge swell pushed up exactly under her middle, and her bow and stern hung free with nothing to support them. Then one joking wave caught h... ...rt them. Then one joking wave caught her up at the bow, and another at the stern, while the rest of the water slunk away from under her just to see ho... ...you aware of this, Steam?—the plating at the bows, and particularly at the stern—we would also men- tion the floors beneath us—help us to resist any t... ...who tethered the ponies and the bullocks by the piled house-gear, and laid stern hands upon three of that smiling band of the thieves of Mahadeo. The ...

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...eetings of the girls, who now, perhaps for the first time, call him by his stern family name, instructed by instinct rather than precept that the time... ...ghter was born, he at once declared that she was a very weakly flower, and sternly forbade the mother to go to London. The mother, loving her babe, ob... ...t. ’ ‘Then where has it gone?’ said the Countess de Courcy, with a look of stern decision. ‘Heaven only knows! Now, Augusta is to be married. I must o... ..., not ex- travagantly as her mother would have done, not in defer- ence to sterner dictates of the latest fashion as her aunt would have done, with no... ...ind her brother, and found him in the worst of bad society—so at least the stern De Courcys would have thought. Old Mr Bateson and the governess, Mr E... ...unfortunate in much, not in everything; but the world, which is very often stern in such matters, never judged her to have disgraced her- self. I tell... ...e of others. Being, as she was herself, nameless, she could not but feel a stern, unflinching antagonism, the antagonism of a democrat, to the pretens... ...f I go among my workmen, can they talk to me? No; I am their master, and a stern master. They bob their heads and shake in their shoes when they see m... ...derful. By his lips, also, he could be most exquisitely courteous, or most sternly forbidding. And not only could he be either the one or the other; b...

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... have long eyesight, and as long an arm.” With these words, said with much sternness, the Prince concluded his address. Next morning the members of th... ...y-piece. As soon as the lamp had kindled, the party beheld an unaccustomed sternness on the Prince’s features. It was no longer Florizel, the careless... ...ensions; it was surmounted by several pinnacles and turret-tops; the round stern of a chapel, with a fringe of flying buttresses, projected boldly fro...

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...me of cards, take the opportunity to pay him the money; that will soften the stern old man. In any case his advice may serve as a guide for us. And me... ...he crocodile be perfectly empty?” “Perfectly,” Ivan Matveitch maintained sternly and im pressively. “And in all probability, it is so constructed... ... give Elena Ivanovna a pension?” “No, me not intend,” said the German in stern decision. “No, we not intend,” said the Mutter, with positive m...

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...pend on his mood at the time, madam, ’ said Mr Robarts. ‘If that were very stern, he might perhaps have me beheaded before the palace gates. ’ Mrs Pro... ...nal dignity than was within the chaplain’s compass. Mrs Proudie was rather stern at breakfast, and the vicar of Framley felt an unaccountable desire t... ...son; but there can be no doubt that Mr Crawley was a strict man,—a strict, stern, unpleasant man, and one who feared God and his own conscience. We mu... ...hem in his philosophy, but to dispense with which puts is philosophy to so stern a proof. Let any plainest man who reads this think of his usual mode ... ...ld accomplish. Not that she ever fainted, or gave way: she was made of the sterner metal of the two, and could 156 Framley Parsonage last on while he... ...nst man’s hardness and the devil’s zeal. I have said that Mr Crawley was a stern, unpleasant man; and it certainly was so. The man must be made of ver... ...er, there was neither pride nor shame. The realities of life had become so stern to her that the outward aspects of them were as nothing. She would ha... ...me is to carry on the Queen’s Government?’ said Harold Smith, looking very stern. ‘That should be left to men of lesser mark,’ said he of the Jupiter.... ...st fixed himself, and now for awhile he remained silent. His face was very stern, and there was in his coun- tenance none of those winning looks which...

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...e that Arthur had grown ghastly pale and that Margaret was blank with con sternation. Haddo, his heavy face wreathed with smiles, stepped forward hea... ...rs Haddo died of heart disease?’ he asked suddenly. His voice was hard and stern. He spoke with a peculiar abruptness that made the poor woman look at... ...ok on Arthur’s face, curiously outlined by the light of the lamp, was very stern. He seemed to undergo some mental struggle of extraordinary violence.... ...ral. 172 TheMagician On a sudden, Dr Porhoët raised his voice, and with a stern ness they had never heard in it before, cried out in that un known ...

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...ce.... We’ve all been through it.” Kitty did not speak, And her face had a stern expres- sion. “He’s not worth your grieving over him,” pursued Darya ... ...skaya’s very ill.” “Really?” said Vronsky, knitting his brows. Anna looked sternly at him. “That doesn’t interest you?” “On the contrary, it does, ver... ...room. When she came into the bedroom, he was already in bed. His lips were sternly compressed, and his eyes looked away from her. Anna got into her be... ...ity of Anna’s close intimacy with Betsy and Vronsky. Alexey Alexandrovitch sternly cut her short, roundly declaring his wife to be above suspicion, an...

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...but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepared defence, Whiles the big year, sworn with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude....

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...es the big year, swoln with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, ...

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...eight. Mr. Bixby, my chief, “straightened her up,” plowed her along past the sterns of the other boats that lay at the Levee, and then said, “Here, ta... ...l I got well abreast the old one limbed cotton wood in the bend, then got my stern on the cotton wood and head on the low place above the point, and c... ...s over the first reef all right!” After a pause, another subdued voice— “Her stern’s coming down just exactly right, by George!” “Now she’s in the mar... ...e head of the island so closely as to brush the overhanging foliage with her stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm’s reach of a sunk... ...; often there is danger; it is so gaudy and man of war like to sit up in the stern sheets and steer a swift yawl; there is some thing fine about the ... ...et her go about!” and leave the rest to the cub, who instantly cries, in his sternest tone of command, “Ease starboard! Strong on the larboard! Starbo... ... when that quarter twain was uttered, and give you such a lot of head marks, stern marks, and Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 76 side marks to... ... a conversation of that day. A chap out of the Illinois River, with a little stern wheel tub, accosts a couple of ornate and gilded Missouri River pil... ...k, under the appropriate headings, thus— “St. Louis. Nine and a half (feet). Stern on court house, head on dead cottonwood above wood yard, until you ...

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...ted to the deck at the end of half an hour I found her there alone, in the stern of the ship, her eyes on the dwindling continent. It dwindled very fa... ...un-umbrella and a book—and laid my hands on her chair, placing it near the stern of the ship, where she liked best to be. But I proposed to her to wal...

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...m to all the wealth of Bokhara and Samarcand. “Saracen,” said the Crusader sternly, “blinded as thou art, and plunged amidst the errors of a false law... ...pt from which he had caused the Scot to bring it, than he said hastily and sternly to his companion; “Begone, begone— to rest, to rest. You may sleep—... ...iture of blood. These evils were in a great measure counterbalanced by the stern resolution and restless activity of King Richard, who, with some of h... ...xt, per- haps, to the ire of the monarch himself, they dreaded that of the stern and inexorable Lord of Gilsland. [Sir Thomas Multon of Gilsland.] 86... ...h fighting for the subjugation of Scotland, and the Scottish, with all the stern determination and obstinacy which has ever characterized their nation... ...ster of the Horse.” “And I answer as a free Scottish knight,” said Kenneth sternly. “For the present I follow the banner of England, but I cannot reme... ...eld-sports—”of the noblest Northern breed—deep in the chest, strong in the stern—black colour, and brindled on the breast and legs, not spotted with w... ...ht procession in the chapel of the rocks. “I ask you,” said the King, in a sterner voice,” whether you were not in the chapel of the Carmelite nuns at... ...sitation, “I might guess.” “And I also may guess,” said the King, frowning sternly; “but it is enough. Leopard as you are, Sir Knight, beware tempting...

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...mother’s vanity, and that made her strive to correct their bad habits by a sternness which the severity of their father converted through comparison t... ...eared in Provins,—a man who hid a vast ambition be- neath the austerity of stern principles. The sister of this priest, an unmarried woman about thirt... ...oubtful. She accord- ingly sounded her conscience in the confessional. The stern priest explained the opinions of the Church, which sees in marriage o... ...eings is out of order. Mademoiselle Habert, an ideal of her species, had a stern eye, a grim mouth, and beneath her wrinkled chin the strings of her c...

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...ne of your places, sir,” answered Diggory, sullenly. Colonel Enderby spoke sternly and peremptorily. “In the town, or in the fields? Answer me that, s... ...ed to confess,” continued the of- ficer, frowning, and speaking slowly and sternly, as he kept his eyes steadily fixed on Walter, “if thou wilt not re... ... trying to silence them by caresses, and looking with terror at the rigid, stern guard, who, in- stead of remaining at the door where he had been post... ...u are not wrong there, sir,” said Walter. “I tell thee,” said the captain, sternly, “thy joy shall be turned to mourning. Thou shalt see thy mother th...

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...for an hour, but that the locksmith held up his finger, and fixing his eye sternly upon him caused him to desist; then pointed to the body with an inq... ... Dolly gone to bed?’ ‘Your master speaks to you,’ said Mrs Varden, looking sternly over her shoulder at Miss Miggs in waiting. ‘No, my dear, I spoke t... ...here, Willet, who sent to me,’ he said, in a voice which sounded naturally stern and deep. ‘Where is he?’ ‘In the great room upstairs, sir,’ answered ... ...a burly square built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech. The on... ...thrust away, and Mr Haredale stood between them. He regarded the young man sternly without removing his hat; with one hand clasped his niece, and with... ...Maypole Inn. ‘I am what you all are, and live as you all do,’ said the man sternly, after a short silence. ‘I am in hiding here like the rest, and if ... ...d laid upon him many similar injunctions, with great fluency of speech and sternness of manner. ‘Commend me, captain, to the stricken Miggs,’ returned... ...e widow, with her marked and startling face and downcast eyes; Mr Haredale stern and despondent ever; his niece beside him, like, yet most unlike, the... ... number; ships leave the Thames for distant regions, carrying from stem to stern no other cargo; the bells are silent; they ring out no entreaties or ...

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...of slippers were heard descending the stairs. Tibbs flew to a chair; and a stern-looking man, of about fifty, with very little hair on his head, and a... ...st for the sake of saying something. ‘I should think he was, ’ replied the stern gentleman. ‘He was whistling “The Light Guitar,” in the next room to ... ...e.’ Just as he said the word, there came tripping up, from her seat at the stern of the vessel, a young lady in a puce-coloured silk cloak, and boots ... ...ne?’ inquired that jocular individual. ‘Did you ever hear a tom-tom, sir?’ sternly inquired the captain, who lost no opportunity of showing off his tr...

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...f sight! Hah!’ ‘You had best not interrupt me, ’ said the Carrier, with some sternness, ‘till you understand me; and you’re wide of doing so. If, yest... ...pon her face. ‘The marriage that takes place to day,’ said Caleb, ‘is with a stern, sordid, grinding man. A hard master to you and me, my dear, for ma...

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...me all the sails for that whale-boat.’ A fez-crowned head bobbed up in the stern-sheets, divided itself into exact halves with one flashing grin, and ...

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...on to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments. On the first day when his father formally gave him the hint ...