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He was obliged to walk upon bog tufts and watch his feet to keep from the oily mire.

And immediately after the shot it splashed heavily with its white breast on the wet mire.

He was exhausted, and felt it a great effort to drag his staggering legs out of the mire, and for a minute he hesitated.

So I take advantage of this short halt, while Gatsby, so to speak, caught his breath, to clear this set of misconceptions away.

Not a grain of anger with them was in his heart; he knew them, far below their surface weaknesses and misconceptions, as no one but their fellow-labourer could.

'We wished Mr. Copperfield to be accompanied by some confidential friend today,' with an inclination of her head towards Traddles, who bowed, 'in order that there might be no doubt or misconception on this subject.'

It was too late, however, for we were rapidly gathering momentum, and an instant later had shot clear of the station.

She felt a morbid desire to ascertain the point.

One of his darkest miseries in the unhealthy morbid past days had been his hatred of being a sickly weak-backed boy whose father was afraid to look at him.

Shut in and morbid as his life had been, Colin had more imagination than she had and at least he had spent a good deal of time looking at wonderful books and pictures.

The mystical Om-Om-Om of the dynamos in the electric-light plant behind the mill was louder in the darkness.

Human or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees.

All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.

The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers.

Yet his presence, his manners, the warmth of his glances, and above all the touch of his lips upon her hand had acted like a narcotic upon her.

Monte Cristo for some time kept his eyes fixed on the young girl, who gradually fell asleep, yielding to the effects of the narcotic the count had given her.

In the event of your acceding to my request it is probable that I shall have to narrate them to you.

But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella.

It made a great impression on me, and I remembered it a long time afterwards; as I shall have occasion to narrate when the time comes.

It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part.

But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.

That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.

Morrel now tried to negotiate bills at ninety days only, and none of the banks would give him credit.

In order to negotiate with him they have to get an interpreter, and they pitch upon this Mr. Melas, having used some other one before.

Even this arrangement was not effected without considerable negotiation, for Mme.

That would make three of us for a nucleus.

Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime.

It was the last asset in their fortunes, the nucleus around which their life was to be rebuilt.

A small window shot an oblique square of whiter light upon the cluttered floor.

The oblique band of sunlight which followed her through the door became the young wife well.

I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.

There had been a period of repose, and he had sunk into oblivion.

Tom appeared from his oblivion as we were sitting down to supper together.

She must shut them out for a few hours; she must take a brief bath of oblivion.

We swept on, and I felt that I was highly obnoxious to Camilla.

Victor thought there would be more logic in thus disposing of old people with an established claim for making themselves universally obnoxious.

He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years, when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government.

They became sodden, stupid, ugly or obscene.

Ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.

Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.

When he arrives he will be met by the obtuse but resolute Lestrade, and I have no doubt that we shall have all our details filled in.

She liked their elegance, their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency.

"I have been very obtuse, Watson," said he.

Kennicott was as opaque as ever.

The water was opaque over the mud.

Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant substance.

At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.

Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.

He waved his whip in the direction of the Bellomont acres, which lay outspread before them in opulent undulations.

Yet, in spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford.

Of two brothers, very similar in temperament and character, one had settled on a flourishing farm in Vermont, and the other became an opulent planter in Louisiana.

In fact, Sam considered oratory as his vocation, and never let slip an opportunity of magnifying his office.

Having made this well-turned speech, Villefort looked carefully around to mark the effect of his oratory, much as he would have done had he been addressing the bench in open court.

accordance with the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the.

"There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.

There was no organic connexion with the thought and expression that had gone before.

But it took some getting at, the core of the physical jungle, the last and deepest recess of organic shame.

I went up to my London rooms, where I spent seven weeks working out a few experiments in organic chemistry.

Even an organism is bourgeois: so the ideal must be mechanical.

They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism.

Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock.

He resolved, therefore, to let things take their course without making any direct overture to the count.

There was an ominous, clanging overture to the charge when the shafts of the bayonets rattled upon the rifle barrels.

Tom watched the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship.

To pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did move quietly to the window.

Meantime, Teta Elzbieta would go and beg, over in the Hyde Park district, and the children would bring home enough to pacify Aniele, and keep them all alive.

Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived.

or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time.

Such was the address of each in parrying and striking, that the spectators broke forth into a unanimous and involuntary shout, expressive of their delight and admiration.

"Then give me water," cried Danglars, endeavoring to parry the blow.

The earnest virgins were, she fancied, as likely to do harm as to do good by their faith in the value of parsing Caesar.

She really was both innocent and corrupt, but a sweet and passive woman.

And Levin had been struck by the passive, weary incredulity with which the children heard what their mother said to them.

He sat still and passive, his head resting against the back of the wooden rocking-chair, his hands relaxed upon the arms.

I have found out who my patron is.

His being my lawyer, and his being the lawyer of your patron is a coincidence.

He is not my private friend and public patron, as Steerforth was, but I hold him in a reverential respect.

Ned, getting sentimental, warbled a serenade with the pensive refrain.

He felt as if suddenly shaken out of a pensive dream and found it impossible to go to sleep again.

The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a tall, stout woman, with an unhealthily sallow face and splendid, pensive black eyes.

He was not temporarily overlaid with the colour; it permeated him.

He was permeated with its scenes, with its substance, and with its odours.

Morrel, overpowered, turned around in the arm-chair; a delicious torpor permeated every vein.

He appeared a taciturn, and perhaps a proud personage; but he was very kind to me.

To Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner he was scarcely a less interesting personage than to herself.

It was a seaman, quite a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman; but a midshipman it was not.

An open door afforded a perspective view of the Aged in bed.

As I could obtain a perspective view of Mr. Omer inside, smoking his pipe by the parlour door, I entered, and asked him how he was.

The Aged must have been stirring with the lark, for, glancing into the perspective of his bedroom, I observed that his bed was empty.

Mrs. Charpentier blushed at my pertinent question.

Nor did the scout fail to throw in a pertinent inquiry, whenever a fitting occasion presented.

The pertinence of the question checked Selden's fugitive impulse before the train had started.

Its tone was indeed solemn and pervasive.

Now, by a subtle pervasion of the new spirit, he had somehow been pushed out.

Of this he was very proud, and it made him more disposed than ever to laugh at the pessimists.

I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.

The Afro-American citizens of Kentucky, whose intellectual and financial improvement has been phenomenal, have never had a separate car law until now.

It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures.

They were the only parts of his face that showed any life or expression, the pigment upon it was so thick.

Since the introduction of railways Wessex farmers have managed to do without these Mephistophelian visitants, and the bright pigment so largely used by shepherds in preparing sheep for the fair is obtained by other routes.

Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig.

They saw more rooms and made more discoveries than Mary had made on her first pilgrimage.

I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.

The spirits that guarded me had provided these moments, or rather hours, of happiness that I might retain strength to fulfil my pilgrimage.

I will hang thee out to feed the ravens, from the very pinnacle of thine own castle.

The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.

He felt himself on a pinnacle that made him giddy, and far away down below were all those nice excellent Karenins, Oblonskys, and all the world.

Immediately they heard a loud, piteous cry.

Those pictures of glory were piteous things.

It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.

Villefort, as we have seen, belonged to the aristocratic party at Marseilles, Morrel to the plebeian; the first was a royalist, the other suspected of Bonapartism.

I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress.

He was dressed in a common gray blouse and velvet cap, but his carefully arranged hair, beard and mustache, all of the richest and glossiest black, ill accorded with his plebeian attire.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

They all loved her but they thought her the sweetest, most pliable of young women, deferential to her elders and without any opinions of her own.

But Scarlett intended to marry--and marry Ashley--and she was willing to appear demure, pliable and scatterbrained, if those were the qualities that attracted men.

To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.

The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.

I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the daemon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected.

A sudden thought came into my head as I stooped towards the portal.

Suddenly little Gerda stepped through the great portal into the palace.

The trees about the portal of the chapel moved soughingly in a soft wind.

He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure.

Mr. Bumble emerged at early morning from the workhouse-gate, and walked with portly carriage and commanding steps, up the High Street.

In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive.

How much of the practice I have just reduced to precept, I owe to Agnes, I will not repeat here.

The applicability or non-applicability of the Christian precept to his own case was too difficult a question to be discussed lightly, and this question had long ago been answered by Alexey Alexandrovitch in the negative.

I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article.

Trainloads of negroes had been rushed from town to town, voting at every precinct along the way.

There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearing-post.

Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak or rustle their feet.

No lady ever showed herself when she was pregnant.

She looked worse than any pregnant woman she had ever seen.

Scarlett had wept with despair at the knowledge that she was pregnant and wished that she were dead.

The audience felt that a startling revelation was to follow this ominous prelude.

Little did I think that this would be the prelude to the most crushing misfortune of my life.

I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.

He was sober and quiet and preoccupied.

Firstly, my mind was too preoccupied to be able to take in the subject clearly.

Ellen was thin and preoccupied now and on her feet from morning until long after the plantation was asleep.

Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body.

Ethan was aware that, in regard to the important question of surgical intervention, the female opinion of the neighbourhood was divided, some glorying in the prestige conferred by operations while others shunned them as indelicate.

Even the blockade had added to Atlanta's prestige.

Well; all sorts of humbugs profess morality.

But, in return, your sister must allow me to feel no more than I profess.

Confiding in you at all, on the faith of the interest you profess for him, I will not do so by halves.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.

My ardour was indeed the astonishment of the students, and my proficiency that of the masters.

He did not sleep the whole night, and his fury, growing in a sort of vast, arithmetical progression, reached its highest limits in the morning.

First, when used as a fin for progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.

Wildeve forgot the loss of the money at the sight of his lost love, whose preciousness in his eyes was increasing in geometrical progression with each new incident that reminded him of their hopeless division.

But let me observe that all histories are against you--all stories, prose and verse.

Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.

I counted up to high numbers, to make sure of myself, and repeated passages that I knew in prose and verse.