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She was looking at the canary yellow festoons left over from the Coronation.

Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.

One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.

It was a body capable of enormous leverage--a cruel body.

These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.

Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years and Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement.

To the best of my judgement, no capacity of astonishment was left in me.

Anna said what came to her lips, and marveled, hearing herself, at her own capacity for lying.

And now, in the evening, Mr. Wickfield, Agnes, and I, went to have tea with him in his private capacity.

Of this the captive seemed conscious.

But nothing happened; there seemed to be no angels or fairies interested in this luckless captive.

Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service.

The very madness of the Abbe Faria, gone mad in prison, condemned him to perpetual captivity.

Here a lonely heart broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity.

The spirit fluttered for a moment on the threshold of its little prison, and, unconscious of captivity, took wing.

I put my cows and sheep into my coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions.

Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo.

They turned the bowsprit towards Sardinia, where they intended to take in a cargo, which was to replace what had been discharged.

And now my wanderings began which are to cease but with life.

Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice.

With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying.

The two or three men who had tried to take advantage of her in a deal acquired celebrity by their defeat.

Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.

These are two celebrated ones.

When he came, my aunt performed the ceremony of introduction.

And without farther ceremony, she turned away and walked to the instrument.

Nothing special happened at the ceremony of benediction with the holy picture.

In his eyes was a desire to chant a paean.

As the immediate effect, however, gradually passed away, a low murmur of voices commenced a sort of chant in honor of the dead.

Even David was not reluctant to lend his ears to the tones of voices so sweet; and long ere the chant was ended, his gaze announced that his soul was enthralled.

She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.

The red road lay checkered in shade and sun glare beneath the over-arching trees and the many hooves kicked up little red clouds of dust.

Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.

Love and cherish your sisters.

The interest you cherish is lawless and unconsecrated.

This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.

It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less than sixteen in circumference.

A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a segment for his portion.

At the head there was a great iron wheel, about twenty feet in circumference, with rings here and there along its edge.

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

His appearance, changed by his civilian dress, was as fascinating to her as though she were some young girl in love.

The commandants of the Yankee troops in the various cities had complete power, even the power of life and death, over the civilian population, and they used that power.

His face was of a clammy pallor.

Her hand, with palm clammy with perspiration, slid into his.

Sweat broke out on Scarlett with clammy dampness, whenever this thought entered her mind.

He was fond of talking about Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven, of the significance of new schools of poetry and music, all of which were classified by him with very conspicuous consistency.

She knew that Gerty Farish admired her blindly, and therefore supposed that she inspired the same sentiments in Grace Stepney, whom she classified as a Gerty Farish without the saving traits of youth and enthusiasm.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.

His plans were suddenly brought to a head by his knowledge that Sir Charles was about to leave the Hall on the advice of Dr. Mortimer, with whose opinion he himself pretended to coincide.

Still, the coincidence of our being together on the coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any moment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.

A long, lingering, colossal sigh followed, and his heart broke.

The building had a huge entry, and was altogether of colossal dimensions.

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

He has a remarkable head-voice, and will commence as a chorister.

He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.

We accordingly determined to commence our journey towards the north at the expiration of another month.

But I commend the idea to your mind.

This motto, however, they did not commend to farmer customers who had had crop failures.

To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

I would rather not have gone into this question at present, but you compel me.

Mattie was her relation, not his: there were no means by which he could compel her to keep the girl under her roof.

Edmond, my friend, do not compel me to tarnish that noble and pure image reflected incessantly on the mirror of my heart.

But for a woman to leave the protection of her home and venture out into the rough world of men, competing with them in business, rubbing shoulders with them, being exposed to insult and gossip.

There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.

The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.

Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.

Mr. Jaggers had seen me with Estella, and was not likely to have missed the sentiments I had been at no pains to conceal.

During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.

Pray, my dear, allow me to conclude.

I must conclude, for I cannot be long from my poor mother.

In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages.

They were admitted by a confederate inside the house.

They went a long way, on purpose to find a man who would not be a confederate.

She somehow felt like a confederate in crime, and tried to look severe and disapproving.

We both knew that I had but to propose anything, and he would consent.

His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving her consent to this plan.

They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all.

Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

To her it was but the natural consequence of a strong affection in a young and ardent mind.

I have something of consequence to inform you of, which I was on the point of communicating by paper.

These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights.

His household used to consist of an elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Marker, and of a maid, Susan Tarlton.

I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.

Come, dearest Victor; you alone can console Elizabeth.

He had said it without thinking, simply to console her.

I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction.

In the most conspicuous part of the salon was another portrait.

I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.

As usual, the oldest women were the most decorated, and the ugliest the most conspicuous.

Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt.

They were out in the open at last and Gatsby was content.

My companion will be of the same nature as myself and will be content with the same fare.

So I put them round his neck, and she laid her head down on his shoulder quite content and satisfied.

The contract was read during a profound silence.

They were about to proceed to the reading of the contract, which half Paris assembled was to sign.

So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.

If each of the board would contribute the same, they could have the books.

I promised to contribute a water-colour drawing: this put her at once into good humour.

On the present occasion, for the better entertainment of their visitor, towards whose amusement he felt himself bound to contribute, he wished to engage them for both.

Erik talked of books; flamed like a recent convert to any faith.

Mary was a stewardess, and she tried to convert him on the way over.

That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better man.

My convict never looked at me, except that once.

I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.

The other convict was livid to look at, and, in addition to the old bruised left side of his face, seemed to be bruised and torn all over.

Some of these places were kept by private persons, some were cooperative.

Fyodor came from a village at some distance from the one in which Levin had once allotted land to his cooperative association.

The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.

It was like her cordial voice in my ears.

As when I saw my little darling looking up so naturally to those cordial eyes.

I welcomed my friend, therefore, in the most cordial manner, and we walked towards my college.

The men could not go farther than the barns and corral.

Each withdrew to a far corner of his own corral, and then they made for each other at a gallop.

She got her cattle home, turned them into the corral, and went into the house, into her room behind the kitchen, and shut the door.

Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.

In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.

Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.

In the end he deemed it best to be crafty with him, so in this mind he went up to his father, who was bending down and digging about a plant.

When he had thus announced his liberal intention, the crafty chief arose, and gravely spread his presents before the dazzled eyes of his hosts.

I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.

Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light.

Vronsky opened the letter, and flushed crimson.

A crimson flush was glowing on her cheek, that had been long so pale.

I saw that a crisis was at hand, and it came.

That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.

The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses.

The crude reds and greens and blues of that coloured glass held us there.

But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.

Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.

Certainly Torvald does understand how to make a house dainty and attractive.

After a dainty egg and fish dinner, Tom said he wanted to learn to smoke, now.

However, the wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel.

He was a dapper young fellow, with a light brown mustache and blue eyes, and a graceful figure.

It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before.

The moon shone upon him, and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk of the naturalist.

I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold.

They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.

The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly.

A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined.

But whether I should write this apology, or deliver it in person, was a point of long debate.

In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.

Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.

First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.

An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.

At first I had neglected them, but now that I was able to decipher the characters in which they were written, I began to study them with diligence.

Certainly there was no physical defect.

I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect.

I fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character, after all.

He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further.

The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do.

But Georgia, by its stubborn resistance, had so far escaped this final degradation.

We went to bed greatly dejected.

I am terribly dejected for about a week or two.

I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way.

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case.

But she was a deliberate and joyous spendthrift in her preparations for her first party, the housewarming.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

The heirs at once gave out the order for the demolishing of Shipley.

Fritchley, a perfect old Georgian mansion, was even now, as Connie passed in the car, being demolished.

The split-rail fence around the kitchen garden had been demolished and the once orderly rows of green plants had suffered the same treatment as those at Tara.

Nor care I now, how dense and grim.

She could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side.

It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.

She told herself how good he was, how dependable and understanding.

It was the first time that either of them had found a dependable intellectual companionship.

Beth is the best of little creeters, and a sight of help to me, bein so forehanded and dependable.

The luncheon table showed a depleted circle.

The depleted band drew a long breath of relief and gathered itself into a bunch to complete its trip.

By the time the depleted regiment had again reached the first open space they were receiving a fast and merciless fire.

He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression.

My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

His heart warmed to Golenishtchev for this remark, and from a state of depression he suddenly passed to ecstasy.

And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed.

Excitement was at fever beat until the morning papers, two days after, announced that the wounded deputy sheriffs were out of danger.

Villefort hastily quitted the apartment, but reflecting that the sight of the deputy procureur running through the streets would be enough to throw the whole city into confusion, he resumed his ordinary pace.