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They became sodden, stupid, ugly or obscene.

Long lines of soldiers were passing, dust covered, sodden with weariness.

In the middle of it, clearly marked on the sodden soil, was the track of a bicycle.

At these moments I took refuge in the most perfect solitude.

They are dead, and but one feeling in such a solitude can persuade me to preserve my life.

Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland and finish my work in solitude.

The opinion of all the commercial men was that, under the reverses which had successively weighed down Morrel, it was impossible for him to remain solvent.

When he came into the parlor, his eyes were somber.

His face was quiet, almost somber, and there was no mocking in his eyes.

These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees.

That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm.

Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.

A sudden and horrible spasm of fear had come over him.

Everything about him was warm and spontaneous.

On the contrary, he was burningly, poignantly grateful for a piece of natural, spontaneous kindness: almost to tears.

It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me.

You, for example, May, you squander half your force with women.

He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

He had left her, when only eighteen; robbed her of jewels and money; gambled, squandered, forged, and fled to London: where for two years he had associated with the lowest outcasts.

Here was something of stability, thought Scarlett, something of the old life that was unchanging.

But now all desire for change had vanished, and the sight of the little enclosure gave him a warm sense of continuance and stability.

It was an age when what we call talent had far less consideration than now, but the massive materials which produce stability and dignity of character a great deal more.

To the sterile winter air the wood gave a scent of March sap.

And your nasty, sterile want of common sympathy is in the worst taste imaginable.

The bitter waters of life surged high about him, their sterile taste was on his lips.

Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows.

The stigma gone, Hester heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit.

Others contended that the stigma had not been produced until a long time subsequent, when old Roger Chillingworth, being a potent necromancer, had caused it to appear, through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs.

They stimulate him to greater watchfulness, and enhance his power to capture his slave.

And she used all her aroused cheerfulness and satisfaction to stimulate Clifford, so that he wrote his best at this time, and was almost happy in his strange blind way.

But there was something stimulating about him, something warm and vital and electric.

The regiment fell back to the stolid trees.

But so few of these stolid worlds wanted to be moved.

The guns, stolid and undaunted, spoke with dogged valor.

He was stupefied with happiness.

The maid, stupefied, carries in their messages.

The arguments, and his audacity, perfectly stupefied me.

A kind of pleasant stupor was stealing over me as I sat by the genial fire.

She lay in that heavy stupor, alike unconscious of hope and joy, doubt and danger.

It would be difficult to describe the state of stupor in which Villefort left the Palais.

There was a suave, almost teasing note in his voice and she took heart.

She had been attracted only by hands that were fine and suave, like those of her father.

He looked as if he were enjoying himself and when he spoke there was suave brutality in his voice.

Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.

A moment was allowed for the first thrill to subside, then Hugo, the villain, stalked in with a clanking sword at his side, a slouching hat, black beard, mysterious cloak, and the boots.

Mr. Bhaer stood by, watching her blush and blunder, and as he watched, his own bewilderment seemed to subside, for he was beginning to see that on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction.

Mr. Haley pulled out of his pocket sundry newspapers, and began looking over their advertisements, with absorbed interest.

Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of plaited serpents.

Their table was superlatively stupid.

Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.

But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.

The couple seated themselves on the opposite side, and intently but surreptitiously scrutinized her clothes.

And the fingers of William's left hand closed firmly, surreptitiously, as the hero approached.

But it was the part she did not read that tormented Scarlett, that drove her to surreptitious reading of her sister-in-law's mail.

There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.

But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular.

There was a fecklessness, a lack of symmetry and order in the clouds, as they thinned and thickened.

The gloomy taint that was in the Murdstone blood, darkened the Murdstone religion, which was austere and wrathful.

Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself.

The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins.

Please stop flying off at tangents, Carrie.

Steerforth was considerate, too; and showed his consideration, in one particular instance, in an unflinching manner that was a little tantalizing, I suspect, to poor Traddles and the rest.

Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.

"Soon's Ah kick dis black trash outer mah way," answered Mammy loudly, swinging the carpetbag at a black buck who loitered tantalizingly in front of her and making him leap aside.

He wondered why she sounded tart.

Smoke became tart on the roof of her mouth.

I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.

A pitiful and tawdry love-affair.

She pitied herself that her romance should be pitiful; she sighed that in this colorless hour, to this austere self, it should seem tawdry.

In the cold slant of light reflected from the back wall of a neighbouring building, she saw her evening dress and opera cloak lying in a tawdry heap on a chair.

The count was, it may be remembered, a most temperate guest.

I had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.

Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know him.

The cells were in tiers, opening upon galleries.

Old London Bridge was soon passed, and old Billingsgate Market with its oyster-boats and Dutchmen, and the White Tower and Traitor's Gate, and we were in among the tiers of shipping.

The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a "To Let" card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.

This momentous pocket-book was a timely reminder to him of another transaction.

By her next speech, Jo deprived herself of several years of pleasure, and received a timely lesson in the art of holding her tongue.

The boy grew more daring, and Mrs. Pontellier might have found herself, in a little while, listening to a highly colored story but for the timely appearance of Madame Lebrun.

'It's not of him I want to hear; I've heard enough of him,' said the stranger, stopping Mr. Bumble in the outset of a tirade on the subject of poor Oliver's vices.

I am a wretched being, cut off from everything that makes life tolerable.

The Dashwoods were now settled at Barton with tolerable comfort to themselves.

How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.

He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.

His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.

But the matter is of such importance, that one must passer pardessus toutes ces finesses de sentiment.

From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table.

You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.

She might be firm, but only by relationship, and in an inferior and tributary degree.

Entering at the open door of one of these, and releasing my arm, she beckoned me to follow her up the common staircase, which was like a tributary channel to the street.

It was the sterile and rugged district which separates the tributaries of Champlain from those of the Hudson, the Mohawk, and the St. Lawrence.

A dusky tumult would flap its wings from one house to another.

Frankenstein, who was dozing, awoke and asked the cause of the tumult.

The tumult of cessation from lessons was already breaking forth, but it sank at her voice.

Confidence in ultimate victory never wavered.

She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to bother about his ultimate fate.

He was a little wild, uncouth and proud.

He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.

He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions were uncouth, noisy, and greedy.

The wise, unerring Faria could not be mistaken in this one thing.

In our councils of war before Troy he was always first to speak, and his judgement was unerring.

The unerring feeling of nature for a moment prevailed and the old warrior hid his eyes in sorrow.

She did not feel exalted, but unkempt and furious.

But it looked forlorn and unkempt under the gray sky.

Collar and shirt bore the grime of a long journey, and the hair bristled unkempt from the well-shaped head.

Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.

But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.

He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.

This usurpation, it is well known, he afterwards effected.

And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper upon the throne of the seas.

Sire, the usurper is arming three ships, he meditates some project, which, however mad, is yet, perhaps, terrible.

Certainly the weather was variable.

The light but variable breeze, foretold by the weather expert, flapped the yellow curtain, tossing light, then shadow.

They were bringing up nets full of fish from the sea; but Isa was seeing--the garden, variable as the forecast said, in the light breeze.

A good evening to you, venerable Father Wilson.

Our venerable instructor was a great deal older, and not improved in appearance.

Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion.

I have not yet seen the vestige of a clue.

And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.

He sprang round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of colour had been driven from his face.

Hereafter, we must be cautious how we vex her.

Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch.

She is the best friend I have, and that is why I mind having to vex her.

It was a most melancholy vigil and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.

So this was the explanation of the unlocked door and of the nocturnal vigil of Milverton.

About noon he went to the police station to make inquiries, and then came back again for another anxious vigil.

But the watchfulness of these vigilant protectors neither tired nor slumbered.

But the wary and vigilant leader of the Hurons was not so easily disconcerted.

Not a single indication of the future intentions of his hosts, however, escaped his vigilant eyes.

Behind the mask of winter-stripped vines and a wide porch only a foot above the ground, the cottage was so impersonal that Carol could never visualize it.

A curious and most puzzling question might be started concerning this visual matter as touching the Leviathan.

Despite all Frank had told her about the town burning to the ground, she had never really visualized complete destruction.

They seem to radiate a force and vitality that made her feel smaller and weaker even than she was.

The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.

He took her arm in a strong grasp and some of the vitality which animated him seemed to flow into her body.

Her volatile spirits shot up from deepest depression to excited happiness.

Raymond is a witness what ginger and sal volatile I am obliged to take in the night.

In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.

And they had fed and clothed any number of waifs who slept in their cellar.

Gradually their talk died out and drowsiness began to steal upon the eyelids of the little waifs.

The Elder to whose care the two waifs had been committed, led them to his waggon, where a meal was already awaiting them.

Her wan, scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

There was a very dirty lady in his little room, and two wan girls, his daughters, with shock heads of hair.

Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.

To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.

Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.

They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.

And she bade the Welshman wend his way.

We entered the wood, and wended homeward.

The youth wended, feeling that Nature was of his mind.

I knew the steely ire I had whetted.

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

He glanced at the sky in the interval for whetting the scythes.

She looked so lovely and warm and wistful, his bowels stirred towards her.

I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea.

Before quite leaving her he threw upon her face a wistful glance, as if he had misgivings on the generosity of forsaking her thus.

Nor was Eva less zealous in kind offices, in return.

Sam was there new oiled from dinner, with an abundance of zealous and ready officiousness.

Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much serious consideration.