1 I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.
2 Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows.
3 The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips.
4 I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.
5 He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.
6 Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated my fury.
7 Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.
8 The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story.
9 I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
10 He came to the university with the design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for himself.
11 Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me.
12 Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfilment of my promise.
13 The physician came and prescribed medicines, and the old woman prepared them for me; but utter carelessness was visible in the first, and the expression of brutality was strongly marked in the visage of the second.
14 The first part of this deposition did not in the least interest me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself extremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.
15 Sometimes he commanded his countenance and tones and related the most horrible incidents with a tranquil voice, suppressing every mark of agitation; then, like a volcano bursting forth, his face would suddenly change to an expression of the wildest rage as he shrieked out imprecations on his persecutor.