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He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.

Every one knows the history of the famous return from Elba, a return which was unprecedented in the past, and will probably remain without a counterpart in the future.

She or her friends have observed characters the counterpart of almost all that are here introduced; and many of the sayings are word for word as heard herself, or reported to her.

If you want to cram for anything, I should be troubled to recommend you to a better adviser than Loo Bounderby.

She was unable to walk more than a block on the tiny feet which she crammed into too small slippers.

She discovered that most of the women in the government bureaus lived unhealthfully, dining on snatches in their crammed apartments.

He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.

At every vacant minute he hastened to gather furze-stumps, thorn-tree roots, and other solid materials from the adjacent slopes, hiding them from cursory view.

But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.

I called in the inspector and gave him into custody.

I see him now, going away in custody, despised by the congregation.

He made a sweeping bow to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the detective.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

My data were coming more quickly than I could have reasonably hoped.

"We have not the requisite data," chimed in the professor, and he went back to his argument.

Four days after the Jolly Seventeen debacle Vida Sherwin called and casually blew Carol's world to pieces.

Well, she'd have to bear it meekly, much as she disliked it, if she expected to snatch victory from this debacle.

She could not bear to see him in tatters, working, her debonaire immaculate Ashley.

He no longer looked the debonaire Ashley who had caught her fancy so many years before.

His dress was as debonaire as if he were going to a ball, well-tailored white linen coat and trousers, embroidered gray watered-silk waistcoat and a hint of ruffle on his shirt bosom.

A skeleton with a tangle of brown hair adhering to it lay among the debris.

On the other hand a wild chaos of boulders and debris made all advance impossible.

He filled the grease-cups, varnished a fender, removed from beneath the back seat the debris of gloves, copper washers, crumpled maps, dust, and greasy rags.

So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.

Against such a decree there was no Delaware sufficiently hardy to murmur, much less oppose himself.

I, in my stiff-necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it.

Those performances which had been witnessed by his fellows marched now in wide purple and gold, having various deflections.

Through the bars of the prison, through the sleep haze that deflected them, blunt arrows bruised her; of love, then of hate.

The last was an awful blank: something like the world when the deluge was gone by.

The thunder was rolling into distance, and the rain was pouring down like a deluge, when the door of his room opened.

He hesitated whether to address the King as the Black Knight-errant, or in what other manner to demean himself towards him.

A narrow life in Budmouth might have completely demeaned her.

During this performance, the hermit demeaned himself much like a first-rate critic of the present day at a new opera.

The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it.

Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible.

It always happens so in this vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can.

On the contrary, those motions derive their most appalling beauty from it.

I could not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of your character.

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

He could not admit that he was mistaken then, for his spiritual condition then was precious to him, and to admit that it was a proof of weakness would have been to desecrate those moments.

Nor were they less careful to prevent any unhallowed layman from touching the pall, which, having been that used at the funeral of Saint Edmund, was liable to be desecrated, if handled by the profane.

She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character.

He would not despair: he would not desist.

Instantly the captain ran forward, and in a loud voice commanded his crew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship.

Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.

It is a scene terrifically desolate.

Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left desolate.

Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.

Somehow, that seemed a despicable occupation.

All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.

It was a peculiar combination of old-maidishness and licentiousness that made Cutter seem so despicable.

His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must only deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by.

But the fear that the horse might be captured and the money taken from Pork deterred them.

Often she was tempted to tell Martha that the child must be kept at home, but somehow the memory of his foolish, happy face deterred her.

I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.

The dogs come and devour the bacon.

I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up.

These hungry men could devour the whole shoat at one meal and, if they knew of the live hogs, they could commandeer them for the army.

Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.

He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm.

By the Indian's side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume.

He must discern thee in thy true character.

Once or twice she could discern a faint blush; but in general Charlotte wisely did not hear.

I saw him try both experiments upon a dog, but could not discern any effect from the former.

You will smile at my allusion, but I will disclose a secret.

He paused, pondering whether to disclose or not to disclose his feeling to him.

Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence.

The discrepancy was enormous and appalling.

It may be inseparable from the discrepancy in their years.

The discrepancy consists, Mrs Helmer, in the fact that your father signed this bond three days after his death.

Besides, the dashing blockade runners were bringing in these very things under the Yankees' disgruntled noses, and that made the possession of them many times more thrilling.

Mr. Pocket uttered a dismal groan.

There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal.

But Hester could not resolve the query, being herself in a dismal labyrinth of doubt.

The house was dark, dismantled: and the all appearance, uninhabited.

She was delighted to know that the Esplanade Street house was in a dismantled condition.

I went round to my employer, found him in the same dismantled kind of room, and was told to keep at it until Wednesday, and then come again.

I confess that I do think there is a disparity, too great a disparity, and in a point no less essential than mind.

I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife.

Raising his cry of battle, which recalled some six or seven warriors, and reckless of the disparity of their numbers, he rushed upon his enemy.

Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.

As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both.

The first part of their journey was performed in too melancholy a disposition to be otherwise than tedious and unpleasant.

No; by your brilliant and almost sublime conversation you have elevated me above the ordinary level; we no longer talk, we rise to dissertation.

"I am prejudiced against Beauchamp," said Albert, drawing Franz away, and leaving the former to finish his philosophical dissertation with Debray.

doctrine Wendell Phillips sought to combat in his celebrated.

My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding.

Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities.

I trembled violently, apprehending some dreadful misfortune.

The life of my father is in the greatest danger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have related.

To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.

You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it.

Even the smooth surface of family-union seems worth preserving, though there may be nothing durable beneath.

I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard.

Clym shook his head, and looked at the eclipse.

Yes, the sand has nearly slipped away, I see, and the eclipse is creeping on more and more.

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.

In this edifice it was determined I should lodge.

A sad silence was upon the little guarding edifice.

From the edifice a tall leaning tower of smoke went far into the sky.

Even to efface herself from the country means were required.

I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.

They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

And when the auditor had asserted his non-comprehension, he would proceed to elucidate by some new proposition, yet more appalling.

All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be painted.

This seems to have been a day of general elucidation, for this very morning first unfolded it to us.

His own emblem, quivering and aflare, was winging toward the other.

An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.

Under this respectable emblem stood a cross, stated to be the mark of Gurth, the son of Beowulph.

Miss Crawford had a claim; and when it was no longer to encroach on, to interfere with the stronger claims, the truer kindness of another, she could do her justice even with pleasure to herself.

They had held off the Yankees, the Carpetbaggers and the encroachments of Nature.

She wanted to run, fleeing from the encroaching prairie, demanding the security of a great city.

And the honest drover, in his warmth, endorsed this moral sentiment by firing a perfect feu de joi at the fireplace.

There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will, and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.

Restore to thy master that which is his due, and enrich thyself with the remainder.

I do not despise bankruptcies, believe me, but they must be those which enrich, not those which ruin.

It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, anything.

The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then, and this was all his epitaph.

Then, with a sudden dart of irony, he wondered if, when their turn came, the same epitaph would be written over him and Zeena.

Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.

But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain.

The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch.

From the earliest epoch of her conscious life, she had entered upon this as her appointed mission.

Most impressive, so they say--they were lucky--in eruption.

They knew they were sitting on a volcano, but until that volcano erupted there was nothing they could do.

Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.

He undressed with excessive caution, and fell asleep congratulating himself that nobody knew of his escapade.

They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade.

'I would give up tonight's escapade if I were you,' she advised calmly.

Tranquilly permitting these irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, business-like, but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially; and that done, unofficially gave him much wholesome advice.

All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evaporated with its last reek of smoke.

By a tunnel inserted at the rear, this reservoir is kept replenished with water as fast as it evaporates.

They evoke no ardor in the male breast.

He looked like a ghost evoked unseasonably from the grave.

Mrs. Hale paused a moment, and I remained silent, plunged in the vision of what her words evoked.

She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it.

It would be death to stay in the present place, and with all the circumstances to go backward would exalt too many others.

Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.

Brethren, execute upon him the judgment written.

I execute my instructions, and I am paid for doing so.

The older people have dances from home, strange and complicated steps which they execute with grave solemnity.

I thus became aware of the mutual relations between them and Mr. Pocket, which were exemplified in the following manner.

"Here is a nut," said he, catching one down from an upper bough, "to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn."

I bethought myself of an expedient.

The expedient was not without its use.

No expedient that I mean to make use of.