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For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.

Yea, more than equally, thought Ahab; since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

The orator, or the politician, who can produce such a state of things, is commonly popular with his contemporaries, however he may be treated by posterity.

I was struck with the singular posture he maintained.

I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

Vronsky too was getting up, and in a stooping, not yet erect posture, looked up at him from under his brows.

His situation was too precarious to allow him even time to reflect on any thought but one.

But his business was a precarious one; and, when he died, it all went to pieces and there was nothing left.

You may also tell him that the mother of Linton desired him to remain under my guardianship; and, at present, his health is very precarious.

It is not a convenient precedent at all.

Now for the Trenors, you remember, he chose the Corinthian: exuberant, but based on the best precedent.

It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation.

You, Eustacia, stand on the edge of a precipice without knowing it.

You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a precipice.

A single bound would carry him to the brow of the precipice, and assure his safety.

Beyond that the hills become precipitous.

Swearing, sweating men hauled the heavy guns up the precipitous slopes, for mules could not climb the hillsides.

Together we made our way down the precipitous slope and approached the body, black and clear against the silvered stones.

before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and.

After this preface, he gave me a particular account of the struldbrugs among them.

You might suppose, after this preface, that I am going to ask you for something dishonourable to grant.

Close at their side stood Heyward, with an interest in both, that, at such a moment of intense uncertainty, scarcely knew a preponderance in favor of her whom he most loved.

On the other hand, the women broke out of the lodges, with the songs of joy and those of lamentation so strangely mixed that it might have been difficult to have said which passion preponderated.

I am sure that, with your symptoms, my friend Dr. Watson here would prescribe a sedative.

But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients.

Just the same as though you prayed that a physician might only be called upon to prescribe for headaches, measles, and the stings of wasps, or any other slight affection of the epidermis.

Hannah Brown will preside, and all are.

She sent many messages of regret to him from behind her closed door and left the two frightened girls to preside over the supper table.

Being a little embarrassed at first, and feeling much too young to preside, I made Steerforth take the head of the table when dinner was announced, and seated myself opposite to him.

That was all prior to my coming to Bath.

They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.

I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them.

He found Edmond lying prone, bleeding, and almost senseless.

She would rush off across the park, abandon Clifford, and lie prone in the bracken.

She had no resources for solitude; and inheriting a considerable share of the Elliot self-importance, was very prone to add to every other distress that of fancying herself neglected and ill-used.

Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.

I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill.

A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good tempered or cross.

I found it a large, handsome residence, showing abundant evidences of wealth in the proprietor.

After a moment the proprietor emerged from the interior of his establishment and gazed hollow-eyed at the car.

The proprietor and two clerks stood on the sidewalk with armfuls of bolts of cotton cloth they had been displaying.

Brooke will go to keep us boys steady, and Kate Vaughn will play propriety for the girls.

That fool Princess Varvara, even she has left her, considering this a breach of propriety.

But Levin saw that he simply did so from a feeling of propriety, and that his farm was in a flourishing condition.

Such half-and-half doings never prosper.

All hail, therefore, and may the gods prosper you.

can only wish that your wooing may prosper as mine has.

This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness.

The old prince, like all fathers indeed, was exceedingly punctilious on the score of the honor and reputation of his daughters.

He sneered more, his words were apt to be more biting, but the manner that accompanied them was always punctilious--too punctilious.

The door closed once more, and the pungent reek of a strong cigar was borne to our nostrils.

And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another circumstance, a strange, pungent odor.

It collected the stories of graft and misery from the daily press, and made a little pungent paragraphs out of them.

He stood trying to rally his faltering intellect so that he might recollect the moment when he had loaded, but he could not.

The race must rally a mighty host to the support of their journals, and thus enable them to do much in the way of investigation.

When I attended the king after my recovery, to return him thanks for his favours, he was pleased to rally me a good deal upon this adventure.

Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.

Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.

The latter allusion struck deep, and the injury rankled.

Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.

However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.

originally brought in such a receptacle.

This place has previously been mentioned as the receptacle for the blanket-pieces, when stript and hoisted from the whale.

The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency.

Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented.

Occasionally the air breathed through the crevices of the hut, and the low flame that fluttered about the embers of the fire threw their wavering light on the person of the sullen recluse.

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

You ought to stand something handsome, Fagin, to recompense me for keeping house so long.

Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering.

Ah, sire, you recompense but badly this poor young man, who has come so far, and with so much ardor, to give your majesty useful information.

If this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.

She determined to redeem her error so far as it might yet be possible.

The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.

I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.

He was a small, short, youngish man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant yellow hair.

They were just beneath the wide white facade, with its rich restraint of line, which suggested the clever corseting of a redundant figure.

Mrs. Trenor was a tall fair woman, whose height just saved her from redundancy.

Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.

As they fell back down the valley, an army of refugees fell back before them.

These refugees cried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grim pleasure.

And all the infant paupers might have chorussed the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it.

She realized now that though he had infuriated her with his malicious comments and roused her to heated rejoinders, he had done it because he cared what she did and said.

"He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder.

It was the rejuvenated Pyotr Oblonsky.

She returned to town in a glow of rejuvenation, conscious of a clearer colour in her cheeks, a fresh elasticity in her muscles.

The change had struck Mrs. Fisher as a rejuvenation: to Selden it seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape.

Hilda began to relent a little.

No; but she might suppose that something would occur in your favour; that your own family might in time relent.

In my honeymoon, too, when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think, and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.

The sight of other people, their remarks, his own reminiscences, everything was for him a source of agony.

Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come.

But in favor of foreign travel I would urge the change of habits, the removal from conditions calling up reminiscences.

But some remnant of pride, of common sense stiffened her.

She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.

Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.

The Young Amelia was first at the rendezvous.

Day after day he rose with the sun, buckled on his leggings, and went off to the rendezvous with Humphrey.

This circumstance induced Gurth to believe both that the gang was strong in numbers, and that they kept regular guards around their place of rendezvous.

In fact, the Circle's rendition of The Bohemian Girl was said by many to be far superior to professional performances heard in New York and New Orleans.

Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slow rendition of "Lorena"--too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of their wares.

It was not so much a reproach as an irresistible thinking aloud.

Joe looked at me for a single instant with something faintly like reproach.

But I was softened by the softened aspect of the man, and felt a touch of reproach.

Mammy shifted from one foot to another like a restive elephant.

The other swore at his restive horse, and then cleared his throat.

Driving was out of the question, because one of the horses was restive, and bolted in the shafts.

He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.

She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.

In spite of various very natural temptations to resent and retaliate, Amy adhered to her resolution all the next day, bent on conquering her enemy by kindness.

The bitterest fighting, the most brutal retaliations, were just beginning.

And as they were sitting at the marriage-feast, the music suddenly stopped, the doors opened, and a stately king came in with a great retinue.

When Coeur-de-Lion and his retinue approached this rude yet stately building, it was not, as at present, surrounded by external fortifications.

All my retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I persuaded into my service, and, at my humble request, we had each of us a mule to ride on.

But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.

When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation.

Suddenly, on the barrow, there mingled with all this wild rhetoric of night a sound which modulated so naturally into the rest that its beginning and ending were hardly to be distinguished.

I never could guess a riddle in my life.

He put this riddle into two or three different ways.

Then why-- But this riddle was swallowed up in a renewed fear for the safety of Ashley and Frank.

All night long pianos jangled from behind drawn shades and rowdy songs and laughter floated out, punctuated by occasional screams and pistol shots.

We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter.