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...rally bilin- gual; they prattle innocently both in French and English. The emptiness of their existence passes belief. I obtained my entry into a coup... ...ng. But it left me unmoved except for a sudden and weary conviction of the emptiness of all things under Heaven. “Good-bye, Alice,” I said. She did no...

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...organ, but we were old friends; he had been away for months and a sense of emptiness was creeping into my life. I hadn’t dodged a missile for a year. ...

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...or who suffer by their own fault. Without really fathoming the vacuity and emptiness of Ma- demoiselle Gamard’s mind, or stating to himself the petti-...

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... a fountain sealed: Drink deep, until the habits of the slave, The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite And slander, die. Better not be at all Than no...

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...asions, the sense of being alone—the ab- sence of the whole family and the emptiness of the house. To-day, apparently, the servants had also gone to c... ...er, he found the piazzas empty. The doors and windows were open, and their emptiness was made clear by the shafts of lamp-light from the parlors. Ente...

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...rom right to left and back again as they swept their gaze through the grey emptiness of the waters where, about two miles dis- tant, the hull of the y... ...han a wall. Well?” Jorgenson assented in grunts. He looked at the desolate emptiness of the decks, at the stripped spars, at the dead body of the dism... ...ever seen a dead body in my life. The light, the silence, the mys- terious emptiness of this place have suddenly af- fected my imagination, I suppose.... ...adful ease of slack limbs in the sweep of an enormous tide and in a divine emptiness of mind. If this was existence then he knew that he ex- isted. An... ...e—for an- other day.” The overwhelming sense of immensity, of disturb- ing emptiness, which affects those who walk on the sands in the midst of the se...

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...ay had fallen on her in the sunshine; she was but a speck in the brilliant emptiness of space, already lonely, already desolate. “Hold him!” yelled a ...

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...sionless and motionless stare, which seemed to have a sort of impenetrable emptiness like the black depth of an abyss. Even in a man utterly devoid of... ...ack, and, crossing over to the other side of the fort, surveyed the vaster emptiness of the great gulf. The Isabels stood out heavily upon the narrowi... ... left swinging rigidly at rest, alone with the two burning candles. In the emptiness of the room the burly shadow of head and shoulders on the wall ha... ... “Come, viejo! Get me something to eat. I am hun- gry! Sangre de Dios! The emptiness of my belly makes me lightheaded.” With his chin dropped again up... ...forms of the Three Isabels right ahead, ap- peared on the flat, shimmering emptiness of the gulf. There are times when no fact should be neglected as ... ...e even his eyelids did not 421 Joseph Conrad flutter once upon the glazed emptiness of his stare. Then slowly, without a limb having stirred, without...

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...h God of the stars and crys- tals and poisons and monsters and of the dead emptiness of space…. The Manicheans and the Persians made out our God to be... ... near as to seem only a few million miles away in 115 H G Wells the great emptiness into which everything had resolved it- self, shone the sun, a bal...

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...utiful and complete here now, than if you were married.’ ‘But think of the emptiness within,’ he laughed. ‘No,’ she said. ‘I am jealous that men have ... ...DAY wore on, the life-blood seemed to ebb away from Ursula, and within the emptiness a heavy despair gathered. Her passion seemed to bleed to death, a... ...l. She came to Willey Water. It was almost full again, after its period of emptiness. Then she turned off through the woods. The night had fallen, it ... ...rkin was out. So there was nothing to do but to bear the stress of his own emptiness. When he saw Birkin his face lit up in a sudden, wonderful smile.... ...et, some books, loose coats, a hat-box, standing desolate in the universal emptiness of the dusk. ‘ A cheerful sight, aren’t they?’ said Ursula, looki...

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... you awfully hungry?” he gasped vehemently, in a way that showed the total emptiness of his stomach. “No,” was Richard’s brief response. “Not hungry!”... ...and seek shade, conceal- ment, solitude. The desire for distances betokens emptiness 85 George Meredith and undirected hunger: when the heart is poss... ... smoke, and words such as she had heard him speak in Abbey-wood resolve to emptiness. Nay, it hu- miliated her personally, and the baronet’s shrewd pr... ...e church, she would, and she foresaw she would, have stared at squalor and emptiness, and repented her work. The Philosopher would have laid hold of h... ...e glowing appeal of the British ballad-monger passed into the bosom of the emptiness he addressed. Clare was asked to entertain the company. The singu...

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...huddering flares that burst out from squat stacks of brickwork and lit the emptiness of strange and slovenly streets…. And this London was only the fo... ...lgrim- age noticed the recurrence of the old familiar hours of his life of emptiness and vanity. Or rather of vanity—simply. Why drag in the thought o... ...ptiness and vanity. Or rather of vanity—simply. Why drag in the thought of emptiness just at this point? … It was very early to go to bed. He might pe...

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...ehind the chair—not mere audience units, but men who matter—the desolating emptiness that spreads itself round the man who fails to in- terest, the li... ...h appointments and duty, and it did not save me in the least from a lonely emptiness such as I had never felt before in all my life. I had little slee... .... Now I was the fool of ambition, who opened his box of gold to find blank emptiness, and now I was a spinner of flimsy thoughts, whose web tore to ra...

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...a bang, the reverberation that went through the suite gave evidence of its emptiness. “Come,” said Trina to the dentist, “let’s go down and look—take ... ...as lit—here in what had been her home, nothing was left but echoes and the emptiness of complete desolation. Only one thing re- mained. On the wall be... ...n. Perhaps it was his fancy, after all. He saw nothing, heard nothing. The emptiness of primeval desolation stretched from him leagues and leagues upo...

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...e of the prettily worded compositions of which time alone can discover the emptiness. “She was delighted that circumstances had brought a rela- tive, ... ...ves with some difficulty. An urchin in a blue blouse mounts guard over the emptiness, and blows his fingers, and shuffles his feet, and slaps his ches... ...ion of new scen- ery and costume had all disappeared, and dismal darkness, emptiness, and cold reigned in their stead. It was hideous. Lucien sat on i...

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...or do I perceive such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness, that I shall stoop to implore thy mercy. Do with him as thou wil... .... Even thus much of truth would save me! But now, it is all falsehood!—all emptiness!— all death!” Hester Prynne looked into his face, but hesitated t...

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...gher half of the drawing-room windows, that now stood open, telling of the emptiness within. Christabel stood for a few moments looking round, and thi...

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...lf after she was gone? What could he turn to in order to fill up the great emptiness that her going would leave in his daily life? And was she never t...

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... im- mortal names, and the poisonous breath of critics has van- ished into emptiness before the fame he inherits. Shelley’s favourite taste was boatin...

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...e want of which, I occasionally sus pect, has rendered my own life all an emptiness. I by no means wish to die. Yet, were there any cause, in this wh...