1 Rushed on deck, and ran against mate.
2 She was leaning against a corner of the gateway.
3 His stronger nature seems to have worked inwardly against himself.
4 I knew then that to struggle at the moment against the Count was useless.
5 It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered.
6 All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.
7 There distinctly was Lucy with her head lying up against the side of the window-sill and her eyes shut.
8 Not an hour shall you wait in my house against your will, though sad am I at your going, and that you so suddenly desire it.
9 Finally, she threw herself forward, and, though I could not see her, I could hear the beating of her naked hands against the door.
10 I knew I must reach the body for the key, so I raised the lid, and laid it back against the wall; and then I saw something which filled my very soul with horror.
11 As I looked back I saw the steam from the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps, and projected against it the figures of my late companions crossing themselves.
12 The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the lid was laid on it, not fastened down, but with the nails ready in their places to be hammered home.
13 With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.
14 Once or twice its service was most effective, as when a fishing-boat, with gunwale under water, rushed into the harbour, able, by the guidance of the sheltering light, to avoid the danger of dashing against the piers.
15 I told him he might have a dozen if he wished, but that it would not be wise to have more than one solicitor engaged in one transaction, as only one could act at a time, and that to change would be certain to militate against his interest.
16 Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.
17 As the evening fell it began to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine, though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills, as we ascended through the Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of late-lying snow.
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