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...w the ragged neck-cloth, the scurfy hat, the broken and patched boots, the threadbare coat, whose buttons had shed their mould, leaving the empty shri... ... unites with several other streams beyond the suburb of Rome. These little threads of running water and the two rivers irrigate a tract of wide- sprea... ...he harm?” After this merited snub, Francois could not at once catch up the thread of his ideas; but he was still less able to do so when Max said to h... ... one of the many brooks which are to be seen from the heights of Issoudun, threading the meadows like ribbons of silver on a green robe. Naiad-like, s... ... has harbored several caterpillars, and mended, here and there, with white thread. Beneath the hat was a dark and sunken face, in which the mouth, nos... ...f this demi-fortune, sold un- der the name of caleche, was moth-eaten; its gimps looked like the chevrons of an old Invalide; its rusty joints squeake...

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...d the well rounded though rather prominent and broad chin. A few clear and thread like horizontal lines were the only interruption to the otherwise sm... ...l, so I will,’ said Gabriel calmly. He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he ... ...iately apparent that the military man’s spur had become entan gled in the gimp which decorated the skirt of her dress. He caught a view of her face. ... ...such a trifling affair. The rowel of the spur had so wound itself among the gimp cords in those few moments, that separation was likely to be a matter ... ...— hok hok! like courting complete — hok! — courting complete —’ Losing the thread of his narrative at this point simultaneously with his loss of breat... ...nderly now, and provide a plate.) He covered the whole with a black cloth, threadbare, but decent, the tail 244 JOSEPH AND HIS BURDEN—BUCK’S HEAD bo... ...their heads, drinking again, the water dribbling from their lips in silver threads. There was another flounce, and they came out of the pond, and turne...

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...he man who at the Cafe David was known as good old Canquoelle, and by what threads he was tied to the terrible and mysterious powers of the police. Be... ... charming toilette. A dress of black corded silk trimmed with rose-colored gimp opened over a petti- coat of gray satin, the costume subsequently worn... ...th magnificent fulness, lined with white watered silk, and bordered with a gimp fit to trim a Portuguese princess’ bodice. The material was silk broug... ...a wood, carved mahogany furniture covered with gray woolen stuff and green gimp, with flower- stands, gay with flowers in spite of the time of year, p... ...- drel; he almost took me in.—But in examining a criminal, a little end of thread leads you to find a ball, is a clue to the investigation of the dark... ...here known to the hulks as the swell-mob was called Fil-de-Soie (or silken thread)—a nickname he owed to the skill with which he slipped through the v... ...n from the maid, hooked the bodice behind, the woman brought out a pair of thread stockings, velvet boots, a shawl, and a bonnet. Amelie 433 Balzac a...

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...eauvisage, a girl of nineteen, had put on a gown of gray silk trimmed with gimp and tassels of a deeper shade of gray, making the front of the gown lo... ...ich he kept to himself. He deceived the most practised eye as to the white threads which for some time past had invaded his hair. The remarkable prope... ...ed; but wait till I explain it. If you had not thought proper to break the thread of our intercourse, I should not to-day be obliged to take up the ar...

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... a portrait, for has it not figured everywhere and become, liter- ally, as threadbare as that of a grenadier of the Empire? But the vidame had an infl... ...c ground of the atmosphere (a species of chasing not unlike the capricious threads of spun glass), or the whirl of white water which the wind is drivi... ...s, like Nature, like this fantastic Paris itself. She holds to vice by one thread only, and she breaks away from it at a thousand other points of the ... ...e cleared up; there, at this moment, was Ferragus, and to Ferragus all the threads of this strange plot led. The Gordian knot of the drama, already so... ...blue paper, was piled with wools, bobbins, and tools used in the making of gimps and trim- mings. Jules examined everything in the room with a curios-...

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...f a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial pro- trusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and y... ... nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers. Thus it happened, th... ... self and be- holder. Municipal town and rural parish gradually made fresh threads of connection—gradually, as the old stocking gave way to the saving... ...ect you to understand my grounds of action—it is not an easy thing even to thread a path for principles in the intricacies of the world—still less to ... ...path for principles in the intricacies of the world—still less to make the thread clear for the careless and the scoffing. You must remember, if you p... ...d he counted on quiet intervals to be watchfully seized, for taking up the threads of investigation—on many hints to be won from diligent application,...

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...f a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and year... ... nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers. Thus it happened, th... ...of self and beholder. Municipal town and rural parish gradually made fresh threads of connection—gradually, as the old stocking gave way to the saving... ...ect you to understand my grounds of action—it is not an easy thing even to thread a path for principles in the intricacies of the world— still less to... ...ath for principles in the intricacies of the world— still less to make the thread clear for the careless and the scoffing. You must remember, if you pl... ...d he counted on quiet intervals to be watchfully seized, for taking up the threads of investigation—on many hints to be won from diligent application,...

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...ull against.” Ethel laughed. “That’s the third thing you have taught me—to thread a needle, tie a bow, and stick in a pin! I never could learn those t... ...o sit straight on her chair, that it was like winding up a steam-engine to thread a needle; yet the work was being done—she was strug- gling with her ... ... your arm, papa; thank you.” “No, you won’t—jump in—there’s room for three thread- papers in one gig. Why, Wilmot, your brother has a very jewel of a ... ... CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III Any silk, any thread, Any toys for your head, Of the newest and finest wear-a? Come to th... ... Broad’s, without any directions, and she will trim it with flame-coloured gimp, and glass buttons; and, unless Margaret catches you, you will find yo... ...ubjects could affect Ethel more nearly, yet she caught herself missing the thread of his discourse, in trying to hear what Mr. Ogilvie was saying to F...