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Main Street with its two-story brick shops, its story-and-a-half wooden residences, its muddy expanse from concrete walk to walk, its huddle of Fords and lumber-wagons, was too small to absorb her.

Oliver was awakened in the morning, by a loud kicking at the outside of the shop-door: which, before he could huddle on his clothes, was repeated, in an angry and impetuous manner, about twenty-five times.

Even so were the suitors lying all huddled up one against the other.

A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.

As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain.

When he saw that smile, submissive and humble, Levin felt something clutching at his throat.

After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel.

The regiment was like a firework that, once ignited, proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades.

Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.

Marianne was, of course, kept in ignorance of all these arrangements.

She was not doomed, however, to be long in ignorance of his measures.

I imparted to Mr. Jaggers my design of keeping him in ignorance of the fate of his wealth.

I knew this must be the immigrant family the conductor had told us about.

Her father had started as a poor immigrant boy and had won the broad acres of Tara.

THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.

And thus fortified, as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities of my position.

Connie says people like wisps of smoke, and Olive says immunized women, and babies in bottles, and Dukes says the phallus is the bridge to what comes next.

I have never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, and hope to gain its end.

I have never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, and hope to gain its end.

And thus fortified, as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities of my position.

Connie says people like wisps of smoke, and Olive says immunized women, and babies in bottles, and Dukes says the phallus is the bridge to what comes next.

Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

Owing to her baby, who somewhat impeded Thomasin's view forward and distracted her mind, she did at last lose the track.

I believe there never was anybody with such an imperturbable countenance when she chose.

Rhett never deviated from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments.

She paused a moment before the last name, and shot a query through her lashes; but he remained imperturbable.

Think, I implore you, before you answer.

I am dying; I beg, I implore you to come.

And I implore you not to look at me during the ceremony.

Still more so, by the stipulation of implicit confidence which I beg to impose.

I mention this in your hearing, Jane, that you may not attempt to impose on Mr. Brocklehurst.

They hesitated to break the silence which death seemed to impose; at length Valentine ventured.

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

The awe which these reflections inspired was attested by the impressive silence and the ranks of staring eyes.

These details and accompanying delays worked up an atmosphere of preparation that was as impressive as it was fascinating.

Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes.

The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.

In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made the pet name incongruous.

And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know.

From one of the proudest families in Kentucky he had inherited a set of fine European features, and a high, indomitable spirit.

Probably, thought Scarlett, because Sally and Young Miss were too afraid of the porcelain-frail but indomitable old Grandma to dare voice any qualms.

I want to have something to do with all those many hours when you are so industrious.

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy.

I can be well recommended by all the neighbors, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I teach others.

She had drunk a quantity of champagne and during the course of her song she had decided ineptly that everything was very very sad--she was not only singing, she was weeping too.

Then the whole herd caught the infection.

There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.

Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time.

Neither duty nor infirmity could keep youth or age from such exhibitions.

The moment he sat down, I noticed the nervous infirmity of which Mrs. Harling had told me.

It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.

A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.

Old Colonel Raleigh had come to Lincoln from Kentucky and invested an inherited fortune in real estate, at the time of inflated prices.

As the younger ones slipped up to him in his retreat, he kept taking things out of his pockets; penny dolls, a wooden clown, a balloon pig that was inflated by a whistle.

I will tell you, then, in a few words the character of the three men who inhabit these rooms.

I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.

I inquired of the inhabitants concerning the fiend and gained accurate information.

But of course, in all her conversations with Ashley there were so many things which could not be said, for honor's sake, that the sheer force of them inhibited other remarks.

You should install yourself here, and cheer my solitude.

And little Eliza seconds the effort, by toddling up to her father, and trying to pull the book out of his hand, and install herself on his knee as a substitute.

Noirtier was prepared to receive them, dressed in black, and installed in his arm-chair.

Listen, then, to a dream that I have had and interpret it for me if you can.

Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians.

The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.

This invaluable friend was a very young woman, and very lately married.

As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.

Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.

The tune changed; snapped; broke; jagged.

Now the jagged leaf at the corner suggested, by its contours, Europe.

They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.

But this was not the only jamming jeopardy he was exposed to.

"Give him, in pity, give him the contents of another rifle," cried Duncan, turning away his eyes in horror from the spectacle of a fellow creature in such awful jeopardy.

But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.

She leaned forward and pressed her face against the window just as the carriage gave a big jolt.

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough.

She fell with a jolt into a whitewashed hall and sat looking at two scared girls and a young man in wrinkled tights.

Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies.

In the doorway the marshal of the province jostled against Levin.

She, Mellors, and Clifford moved at once, Connie and the keeper jostling lightly.

Her not objecting does not justify him.

You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine.

It may have been a mistaken one, or you may have ceased to justify it.

For himself, he grew desperate: his sorrow was of that kind that will not lament.

And Mr. Brooke looked so contented and cheerful that Meg was ashamed to lament her hard lot.

You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.

Bildad, thou used to be good at sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye.

The aristocracy of the lance has allied itself with the nobility of the cannon.

What precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to say.

Strike nothing, and stir nothing, but lash everything.

This plan worked well; the slaves became as fearful of tar as of the lash.

Scarcely a day passed, during the summer, but that some slave had to take the lash for stealing fruit.

Beyond the irregular carpet of grass was a row of white palings, which marked the verge of the heath in this latitude.

At length the desired observation was taken; and with his pencil upon his ivory leg, Ahab soon calculated what his latitude must be at that precise instant.

It is only when a leaky vessel is in some very out of the way part of those waters, some really landless latitude, that her captain begins to feel a little anxious.

Aunt March took no notice, but went on with her lecture.

By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.

Waldman, a fellow professor, would lecture upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted.

Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.

She rang the bell till it broke with a twang; I entered leisurely.

So she turned round; and as she had run a good way and was tired, she walked home leisurely to cool herself.

Yet he had a reputation for kindness and charity on the country-side, and was noted for the leniency of his sentences from the bench.

Another bird did not linger, but rose behind Levin without the dog.

And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away.

The doctor says she may linger a week or two yet; but he hardly thinks she will finally recover.

The room was large, and very light and lofty.

Nodding with an air of lofty contempt to the two officers, he went up to Vronsky.

She could not understand how lofty and beyond her it all was, and she ought not to have dared to allude to it.

Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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

Your logic is most powerful, Valentine, but say what you will, I can never renounce the sentiment which has instinctively taken possession of my mind.

I should then see the discovery of the longitude, the perpetual motion, the universal medicine, and many other great inventions, brought to the utmost perfection.

Stephen bent over his loom, quiet, watchful, and steady.

At the end of the second day, he saw land; at the end of the third, his loom stood empty.

And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.

In a swath eighty miles wide the Yankees were looting and burning.

To Scarlett, that uniform and those gold buttons would always mean the fears of the siege, the terror of flight, the looting and burning, the desperate poverty and the grinding work at Tara.

He hoped the ladies would never hear of the horrors of the looted cemetery, for they'd never get over that.

At a lull in the entertainment the man looked at me and smiled.

I went into the kitchen, and sat down to lull my little lamb to sleep.

The situation, however, was not agreeable enough to lull her to complete unconsciousness of its insecurity.

It was night, but luminous dark.

Her cheeks were flushed and there was a soft luminous look in her eyes.

Tears stood in his eyes, and the luminous, serene look in them impressed Vronsky.

In some stages of his manufacture of the human fabric, the processes of Time are very rapid.

And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.

Her form was concealed in many wrappers of the same simple manufacture, and her face was shut forever from the gaze of men.

The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.

She had formerly been a mere mortal, but had been since raised to the rank of a marine goddess.

Monte Cristo smiled at her unusual humility, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could produce.

The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy.

I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual.

Which is still a marvel to more experienced people than Oliver Twist, every day of their lives.

Its massive oaken door stood unbarred.

It was a massive door and opened into a big bedroom.

There was a fine, massive gravity in his face, I did not venture to disturb.

He was matter-of-fact, yes, and incurably mature.

Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

We come next, to mere details of arrangement.

This, however, was a mere question of length and wearisomeness.

The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

Surprise, horror, and misery were strongly expressed.

But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.

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

This mishap occurred when she was descending an open slope about two-thirds home.

While he stood there the men at the well succeeded in getting up the bucket without a mishap.

I have not supposed so; but, as I have said, I mistrust myself now.

You see, I mistrust you still, though you have borne up wonderfully so far.

I said that I did not blame him, or suspect him, or mistrust him, but I wanted assurance of the truth from him.

When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand.

But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect.

I candidly own that I have modified my views a little, in deference to you; and it should satisfy you.

Her clothes were dripping with moisture.

de Blacas wiped the moisture from his brow.

She had no umbrella and the moisture quickly penetrated her thin spring dress.

de Blacas pondered deeply between the confident monarch and the truthful minister.

No nonsense, my good fellow; silver simply, round coins with the head of some monarch or other on them.

This was my sincere endeavour in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.

It was a monotonous yet ever-changing scene.

She opened it at the middle and began to read in a clear monotonous voice.

Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the loose windowpanes with a monotonous tinkling sound.

Bonny bird; wheeling over our heads in the middle of the moor.

Having crossed the marsh, I saw a trace of white over the moor.

High banks of moor were about me; the crag protected my head: the sky was over that.

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

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

Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, mentioned in my first chapter; but she spoke of him as a morsel of English Grammar.

I've been making the town a myth.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.