1 Justine assumed an air of cheerfulness, while she with difficulty repressed her bitter tears.
2 We attempted to carry him into the cabin, but as soon as he had quitted the fresh air he fainted.
3 The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
4 They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe.
5 Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.
6 He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
7 She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
8 No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air.
9 Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
10 His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
11 The old man had, in the meantime, been pensive, but on the appearance of his companions he assumed a more cheerful air, and they sat down to eat.
12 The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
13 His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.
14 I remembered also the nervous fever with which I had been seized just at the time that I dated my creation, and which would give an air of delirium to a tale otherwise so utterly improbable.
15 We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.
16 He played a sweet mournful air which I perceived drew tears from the eyes of his amiable companion, of which the old man took no notice, until she sobbed audibly; he then pronounced a few sounds, and the fair creature, leaving her work, knelt at his feet.
17 The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually roll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.
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