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... to sell to the two Castiles. While Madame Marguerite was, in spite of the snow, cross- 21 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 ing the mountains, by relays of mul... ...our two feet, two hands, two ivory breasts, and two other things, white as snow—your teeth, your hair, and everything. You will go of your own accord;... ...ight in myself, and by virtue of the magic philter thrown into my eyes the snows on my forehead melted away. I lost all conscience of my Christian lif...

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...g Alps we try, Mount o’er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky; Th’ Eternal Snows appear already past, And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the ...

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...teau de la Valliere ap- 113 Dumas peared in view; then, a quarter of a mile beyond, a white house, encircled in sycamores, was visible at the farther... ...niently ready. Olivain obeyed and continued on his way, whilst Raoul remained sitting, with his elbow leaning on the table, from time to time gently s... ...ve at the inn. Having gained his room he raised his hand to his face, and observing that his fingers were covered with the monarch’s blood, fell down ... ...s, girded on their swords, ordered Musqueton and Blaisois to pay the bill and to arrange everything for immediate departure, and wrapped in their larg... ...re 542 Twenty Years After long they had reached the house in question. For a mo- ment D’Artagnan thought that Parry’s brother had disap- peared; but ... ... was mistaken. The robust Scotchman, ac- customed to the snows of his native hills, had stretched himself against a post, and like a fallen statue, in... ...d D’Artagnan. “We must proceed in an orderly manner.” “Hush!” said Grimaud, “he is coming out. He has put 549 Dumas out the lamp, I can see nothing n... ... he came 676 Twenty Years After to the corridor, all the doors of which he found open; so, too, was the door of Athos’s chamber and that of the park....

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... men set their Hearts upon T urns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two—is gone. X... ... men set their Hearts upon T urns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone. ... ... advance of the Spring,” says Mr. Binning, “are very striking. Before the Snow is well off 45 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Ground, the T rees burst ... ... the Flowers start from the Soil. At Naw Rooz (their New Y ear’s Day) the Snow was lying in patches on the Hills and in the shaded V allies, while th... ...e Moses draws forth his Hand—not, according to the Persians, “lep- rous as Snow,” but white, as our May-blossom in Spring per- haps. According to the...

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...ve Foster, brave Lux planted Liberty-trees, amid ca-ira- ing music, in the snow-slush of last winter, there: and made Jacobin Societies; and got the T... ...ious: these are our three Autumn months. Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, or say Snowous, Rainous, Windous, make our Winter season. Germinal, Floreal, Prair... ...ve built their nest in the rocks. Meanwhile, Frostarious is not yet become Snowous or Nivose, when a Council of War is called; Instructions have 194 ... ...er on the Frontiers, men strove for their Republic, let readers fancy. The snows of Winter, the flowers of Summer continue to be stained with warlike ...

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...wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to en t... ... treaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only ... ...nd the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold, winter day, with snow upon the ground. “Good Heaven!” said Scrooge, clasping his hands tog... ...ove gaily down the garden sweep: the quick wheels dashing the hoar frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray. “Always a del... ...le made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of ... ... come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow storms. The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacke... ... enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which las... ... to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchang ing a facetious snowball — better natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing h... ...round; and bye and bye they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim; who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very w...

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...he crannies of the ill-fit- ting casements; there was a smothered sound of snow lash- ing the windows. The harsh contrast of these sights and sounds w... ... ugly silence prevailed. Yet above the muffled sound of the beating of the snow against the windows rose the sounds of the beautiful voice and the vio...

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... a fox would not have been perceptible. The floor was covered with mud and snow, brought in by the clerks. Near the window stood the 6 Colonel Chaber... ...s I moved, and I economized my breath. At last I saw daylight, but through snow! “At that moment I perceived that my head was cut open. Happily my blo... ...ut, in spite of it, I fainted away when my head came into contact with the snow. However, the little warmth left in me melted the snow about me; and w... ...lonel; he had again risen from the grave; he had just melted a covering of snow less easily thawed than that which had once before frozen his head; an...

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...r cheeks as rosy as though she had been born and bred in regions where the snow lies in winter. She was a small, pretty, beautifully made little crea...

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...ld revive and flourish. A longing for the brightness and silence of fallen snow seizes him at such times. He is homesick for the hale rough weather; f... ...ittle below its ordinary Mediterranean level, or a wind come down from the snow-clad Alps behind, the spirit of his fancies changes upon the instant, ... ... his with sugar, and explained it to be a country continually buried under snow. I took mine with milk, and explained it to be a country suffering gra... ...w here was an island still unsubmerged, here a valley not yet covered with snow; what inventions were made; how his population lived in cabins on perc...

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... and over that a flowing loose robe, some- thing resembling a surplice, of snow-white linen. His throat and neck were uncovered, and his long, straigh...

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...rt could never resist a woman’s glance: he melted before it like the first snow of autumn in the sun ... and dearly he had to pay for his excessive se... ...an wriggling, making faces and at last melted away altogether like thawing snow. And here was the palace in which he would live with Colibri.... And h... ...ing any letter in advance, without warning anyone, he descended on us like snow on our heads. My father was completely taken aback and did not know wh...

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...e no all-destroying avalanche; like gentle showers of a powdery impalpable snow, shower after shower, till all was indeed buried, and yet little was d... ... (See Newspapers, &c. (in Hist. Parl. vi. 381-406).) Beautiful to see! The snowy linen and delicate pantaloon alternates with the soiled check- shirt ... ...men? Alas, by the simplest: by Two Hundred shaven-crowned Individuals, ‘in snow-white albs, with tri- color girdles,’ arranged on the steps of Fatherl... ...- sand, such is the Historian’s testimony, of the fairest of France! Their snowy muslins all splashed and draggled; the ostrich feather shrunk shamefu... ...er run dry: alas with you it is not a common river, but a Nile Inundation; snow melting in the unseen moun- tains; till all, and you where you sit, be... ...le Condorcet, with stoical Roman face, and fiery heart; ‘volcano hid under snow;’ styled like- wise, in irreverent language, ‘mouton enrage, ’ peaceab...

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...turning to de Marsay. “What a virginal toilette; what swan’s grace in that snow-white throat of hers! How white her gown is, and she is wearing a sash... ... (to use an expression now in vogue) to have a soul as white as new fallen snow on the highest Alpine crests. How had she solved in such short space t...

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...ll command respect. Or I can let my eyes fall and my heart freeze under my snowy brows. I can pose as a Madonna with melancholy, swan-like neck, and t... ...be Mme. de l’Estorade; for, dear, I have made a good impression. After the snows of Siberia a man is ready enough to see merit in those black eyes, wh... ...in, for thou hast robbed The heavens of all that made them bright. The snowy sparkle of the moon is on thy lovely brow, Heaven’s azure centres i... ...gainst the allurements of am- bition, and his debts went on growing like a snowball. Still he was beginning to come into notice when I happened to mee...

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...g them by the hand and going to the lawn, then covered by a slight fall of snow; “you will be angry at the prudent advice of an old man, but I am boun... ...to take the day of the Mi-careme to disin- ter it. The unusual quantity of snow which fell that winter had hitherto prevented Michu from obtaining the...

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...oint-lace of the pine shadows seemed as bright as day and as colourless as snow. The setting plaster in the holes positively shone. Cossar’s loose fra... ... people, there are remote and deserted valleys, there are hidden lakes and snow-girdled uplands untrodden by the feet of men. There—” “But to get ther...

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... season, and attiring herself like summer though her head was covered with snow. Gentlemen who were about the Court of King Charles, and King James, h...

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...-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. All that was beautiful and graceful in the martial array had d... ...hose sunny glow 159 Sir Walter Scott Half shows, half shades, her neck of snow? T wines not of them one golden thread, But for its sake a Paynim bled... ...?” said Ivanhoe; “will the rebels bide us there?” “No more than December’s snow will bide July’s sun,” said the Earl; “they are dispersing; and who sh...

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...Prologue The Loner Becoming Civilized The Springtime of Love Nightfall Insensitive Snow The Power and the Blood Friendship The Funeral Bad Boy Flesh Made Word A Failure of Heart A Beautiful Woman A Chalice of Daffodils An Honest Neighbor Fear Alone in the Woods The Jogger Embracing the Unaccept...