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...NA: If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, Untied I still my virgin knot will keep. Diana, aid my purpose! Bawd: What have we to do with Dia...

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... six years, and you expect fair- ness. Well, you are a dithering idiot.” A knot of King’s boys, also bound for the baths, hailed them, beseeching them... ...ed, stamped, shouted, and yelled. A desk was carried away in the tumult, a knot of warriors reeled into and split a door-panel, a window was broken, a... ...a house is thoroughly upset, however good its con- science, it breaks into knots and coteries—small gatherings in the twilight, box-room committees, a... ...(so he vowed) Von Lennaert pretending to soothe down His Excellency’s top- knot in dumb show in the background. Stalky didn’t dare to look up, or he’...

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...n the pockets, collar, and skirts, silk stockings to match, as well as the knot of the tiny scabbard of the semblance of a sword at his side, shoes wi... ...he reaction of simplicity had set in; and Estelle had undone two desperate knots in the green and yellow silks before the preliminary compliments were... ... our witnesses—and by good luck, here’s a bit of gilt wire off my shoulder-knot that I’ve made into a couple of rings while I’ve been speaking.’ The s...

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...nd there. In a speckless 30 Nostromo sky the sun hung clear and blinding. Knots of men ran headlong; others made a stand; and the irregu- lar rattle ... ...he blazing rock faces resembled a slender green cord, in which three lumpy knots of banana patches, palm-leaf roots, and shady trees marked the Villag... ...ll, out of the way of the San Tome silver escort going to the sea; a small knot of chilly leperos under the Stone Horse of the Alameda would mutter: “... ...ilitary music would be heard suddenly, and the remote sound of shouting. A knot of ragged negroes at the end of the wharf kept on loading and firing a... ...ges should “incommode the mules of the señora.” Then, turning to the small knot of silent Europeans looking on within earshot, he raised his voice pro...

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... he had fastened it with green ribbons, which, as there was no untying the knots, required to be cut. This, however, he would not by any means consent... ...a great strip off the tail of his shirt which hung down, and making eleven knots on it, one bigger than the rest, and this served him for a rosary all... ...Don Fernando said the same, and giving her the ring they stood linked by a knot that could never be loosed. The bridegroom then approached to embrace ... ...ily, an affair of such notoriety in the city that it was the talk of every knot of idlers in the street. He said that on the night of Don Fernando’s b... ...ened the door, entered, but found no Leonela; all he found was some sheets knotted to the window, a plain proof that she had let herself down from it ...

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...his face flushed scar- let; his hands twisted themselves together like the knot- ting of cables. The fury in him was as the fury of a young bull in th... ..., under a white netting, was a little bed, the woodwork gayly painted with knots of bright flowers. Near it, against the wall, was a black walnut bure... ...given him; it was of salmon-pink satin; in its centre Selina had painted a knot of blue forget-me-nots. At length, after an interminable period of wai... ...om. As she was tying the Nottingham lace curtains at the window into great knots, she saw old Miss Baker on the opposite sidewalk in the street below,... ...him upon the instant. Grip- ping his enemy in his enormous hands, hard and knotted, and covered with a stiff fell of yellow hair—the hands of 163 Fra...

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...such of the plans as, in their wisdom, they deemed to he for the best. The knotty point was, however, soon decided; and, on the appointed day, the bro... ...rt staff which up held, on a rude grating framed of old hoops of iron, the knots of pine that composed the fuel, and the light, which glared high, for... ...n of the bass,” and in water nearly twenty feet in depth. A few additional knots were laid on the grating, and the light penetrated to the bot- tom, E... ... cast it from him with all his force, and luckily succeeded in drawing its knot close around one of the antlers of the buck. For one instant the skiff... ...eft them securely fastened, I know, for I felt the thongs and examined the knots when I was at the hunt.” “It has been too much for the poor things,” ...

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...It might have tamed a warrior’s heart To view such mockery of his art! The knot-grass fettered there the hand Which once could burst an iron band; Ben... .... 242: “Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour’ d forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.”...

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...able to endure hardship, and his immortal skirmishers in a fiery, crimson, knotted face, showing small capacity for submis- sion. A coarse felt hat, t... ...dress stiffened with whalebone and made in a long point and garnished with knots of ribbon, even on the point! Her petticoats gave forth a creaking no... ...ear 1808. Her blond wig, frizzed and powdered, sustained a superb cap with knots of cherry satin ribbon matching those on her dress. If you will kindl... ...centennial tree, the Hercules of the forest; those glorious assemblages of knot- ted, mossy trunks, whitened and furrowed, and the banks of delicate w...

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...ew his sword in all cases, as the only remedy that he knew for the gordian knots of life. Under present circumstances, when the convulsion of his idea...

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... with Seraphita was like the sought-for dreams of Theriakis, in which each knot of nerves becomes the centre of a radiating delight. But he left her b...

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...labouring ascendant car—my colours fluttered from handle- bar and shoulder-knot—and her waving hand and the sharp note of her voice. She cried out som... ...e a priest or so, here a clump of old-fashioned Protestants, here a little knot of eminent Rationalists indulging in a blasphemous story sotto voce. N... ... Street before mid- night. Sometimes, as my house was conveniently near, a knot of men would come home with me and go on talking and smoking in my din... ... had exhausted our emotions. We had escaped, we had 367 H G Wells cut our knot, we had accepted the last penalty of that head- long return of mine fr...

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... a little huddled group, saying very little, and the men forward were mere knots of silent endurance. Our only continuing sound was the persistent mew... ... a dragon-slaying body, it 141 H G Wells slashed out of existence a vast, knotted tangle of obsolete ideas and clumsy and jealous proprietorships; it...

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...Mr. Creakle folded his arms, cane and all, upon his chest, and made such a knot of his brows that his little eyes were hardly visible below them; whe... ... my aunt, one morning in the Christmas season when I left school: as this knotty point is still unsettled, and as we must not make a mistake in our d...

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...ssenger boys ran back and forth at top speed, dodging in and out among the knots of clerks and traders, collid- ing with one another, and without inte... ...e jing- bang of that Crookes crowd in one hand and”—his large fist swiftly knotted as he spoke the words—”scrunch it up like an eggshell, by George.” ...

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... shop, and shaking dice in “The Smoke House,” and gathered in a snickering knot to listen to the “juicy stories” of Bert Tybee, the bartender of the M... ... that Bea can play with Mrs. Elder—and you! Watch us!” There was an uneasy knot of only nine guests at the service in the unpainted Lutheran Church—Ca... ...ecaying carpet and ancient tobacco smoke. The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every...

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... his brown arms bare to between the elbow and the shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in a wilderness of b... ...d, but was formed of the flooring of the room above. This, being very old, knotted, seamed, and beamed, gave a lowering as- pect to the chamber; and r... ...rasts. She was much given to tying up her head in a pocket-handker- chief, knotted under the chin. This head-gear, in conjunction with a pair of glove... ... saying more, and tied the pocket- handkerchief over her head in a tighter knot under her chin. Bella, who was now seated on the rug to warm herself, ... ...tall, the stock, and the keeper, were all as dry as the Desert. Wegg was a knotty man, and a close-grained, with a face carved out of very hard materi...

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... seventeen, tall and graceful. Her head was bare, her hair fas- tened in a knot behind, and in little curls round her face; she had an open bodice of ... ...s of disgust, especially when she fastened his long curled love-locks in a knot behind, tried to train little curls over the sides of his face, and dr...

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...h manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons. Thus he came along, supporting himself on a... ...e weight of the bones,” said another, lifting the feet. “Have you tied the knot?” inquired the first speaker. “What would be the use of carrying so mu... ...hen we get there.” “Yes, you’re right,” replied the companion. “What’s the knot for?” thought Dantes. They deposited the supposed corpse on the bier. ... ... round his feet with sudden and painful violence. “Well, have you tied the knot?” inquired the grave-digger, who was looking on. “Yes, and pretty tigh... ...sail set, and every sail full with the breeze. They were making nearly ten knots an hour. The Island of Monte Cristo loomed large in the hori- zon. Ed...

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...y set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping... ...lecloth for a mattress, and it’s a plaguy rough board here”—feeling of the knots and notches. “But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I’ve got a carpenter’s pl... ... and left; till at last the plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot. The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’... ...off from me on the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room. I wa... ...as no hair on his head—none to speak of at least—nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead. His bald purplish head now looked for all ...