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...r, whose immeasurable thickness I did not pen- etrate; or the subterranean mysteries of two other less striking but not less historic dungeons, into w... ... a source no more re- condite than a pamphlet by M. Viollet-le-Duc,—a very luminous description of the fortifications, which you may buy from the acco... ...—past Valence, past Tournon, past Vienne—would have been charming, on that luminous Sunday, but for two disagreeable accidents. The express from Marse...

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... the dia- grams. “Stinks?” said Stalky interrogatively. Then his face grew luminous with delight. “By gum! I’ve got it. Horrid stinks! T urkey!” He le... ...ys, it dawned on Prout that he moved in an atmosphere of perpetual ambush. Mysteries hedged him on all sides, warnings ran before his heavy feet, and ... ...erefore was Stalky not broken publicly?” said the Infant, with a large and luminous leer. “Ah, wherefore?” said Abanazar. “To give him a chance to ret...

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...o lengthened to explain here. Indeed, I dare do no more than hint at these mysteries of feminine emo- tion. I beg you to believe that when we are deal... ...g pressure, and walked on, silent as a man who has faced one of the veiled mysteries of life. It struck a full human blow on his heart, dragging him o... ...consequence.” 136 Sandra Belloni The pitiable mortal became a trifle more luminous: “The objection is to the repetition of risked phrases. A happy au... ...ish hearers, as if this piece of shrewd ac- quaintance with the expressive mysteries of their language placed them upon equal terms. It was really ‘a ... ...ve no idea of what is done. Water, salt, white thorns, and other Carbonaro mysteries may be in use or not: I think no worse of the cause, whatever is ... ... a bad shot in Bella’s letter,” he thought. Shop-lights were ahead: a very luminous chemist sent a green ray into the darkness. Wilfrid fixed himself ... ...acterized as a singular couple. T o combat this he drew around him all the mysteries of sentiment that had issued from her voice and her eyes. She had... ... that there was haply some plot to be worked out. The open space was quite luminous in the middle of those three deep walls of shadow. Emilia enjoined...

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...t much concerned about that exclu- sion. The faint suggestion of plots and mysteries pertaining to all matters touching Almayer’s affairs amused me va... ... land- lubbers might pocket dividends. The mystery was destroyed. Like all mysteries, it lived only in the hearts of its worshippers. The hearts chang... ...e. Nothing in the past, nothing in the future; and in the present only the luminous fact of her ex- istence. But in the sudden darkness of her going h... ...erging black and solid from a ghostly and impalpable sea. Upon the faintly luminous background of the eastern sky, the sombre line of the great forest...

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...s the cook had fed her little Cesar well, and had explained to him certain mysteries of Parisian life, which she made him look at from the bottom; and... ... of his angel, less to purchase handkerchiefs than to communicate to her a luminous idea. “If you should have need of perfumery, Mademoiselle, I could... ... to Celestin. “Monsieur,” said Anselme Popinot, over whose dejected brow a luminous light flashed suddenly, “madame, do me the honor to grant me the h... ...f Nature herself, who knows no past, who begins afresh, at every hour, the mysteries of her untir- ing travail. Feeble existences, like that of Birott...

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...ved nor feared nor passionately loved,—a web of iridescent threads. He had luminous final theories about Love and Death and Immortality, odd matters t... ...ack bonnet over one eye and an ostentatiously clean apron outside the dark mysteries that clothed her, or the cheeky little ruffians who yelled papers... ...ers with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden haze, made a broad panoramic spectacle. It was as if one su... ...he hunched sky-line of Doulton’s potteries, and a kiln flared redly. Dimly luminous trams were gliding amidst a dotted line of lamps, and two little t... ...e. My sleeping peer in the library at Stam- ford Court and Evesham talking luminously behind the Hartstein flowers embodied the devil, and my replete ... ... little shadows spreading by impercep- tible degrees across that vivid and luminous cell. 8 8 8 8 8 The Handitch election flung me suddenly into promi...

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...to dance here. The move ment grew more passionate: the fiddlers behind the luminous pillar of cloud now and then varied the air by playing on the wron... ...ump neck, shoulders, and arms to the moonshine, under which they looked as luminous and beautiful as some Praxitelean creation, in their possession of... ...lent, and the horse ambled along for a considerable distance, till a faint luminous fog, which had hung in the hollows all the evening, became general... ...ns. She was close at hand, and the rest were nowhere. The mixed, singular, luminous gloom in which they walked along together to the spot where the co... ...ng to the church. She knew that Angel was close to her; all the rest was a luminous mist. She was a sort of celestial person, who owed her being to po... ...rs on. Something in the place, the hour, the crackling fires, the fantastic mysteries of light and shade, made others as well as Tess enjoy being there...

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...s shut up in the narrow compass of one lumbering old mail coach; they were mysteries to one another, as complete as if each had been in his own coach ... ...e, and assisted him to his feet. No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. Whether he k... ...d French, who, tempted by shillings and half crowns, would impart culinary mysteries to her. From these decayed sons and daughters of Gaul, she had ac... ...uld not ask that word, to save my life.” “I am sure of it. Charles Darnay, mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division; in the ... ...self strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous. Then, a flickering streak played behind the architecture of the f... ... accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying, “Agicultooral character.” “My mind misgives me m...

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...e, and that it would be better to talk as connectedly as possible upon the mysteries of the craft that was all in all to her. Therefore it was his fat... ... ing. In the night-watches he was overtaken with an idea, so simple and so luminous that he wondered he had never conceived it before. It was full of ... ...ed like sitting cats as they swung round, and other uncouth brick and zinc mysteries supported by iron stanchions and clamped by 8-pieces. Northward t...

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...ings, which devotes itself so ably to the study and elucidation of all the mysteries of Masonry past and present, and among the students of this lodge... ... very impressive to me in that slow beating of the hours. Time—space; what mysteries they are! What myster- ies …. It’s time for us to be moving. Stan... ... along like a huge cloud in a strange place of shadowy clouds that had the luminous intricacy of London spread like a model below. But now he was awar...

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...uisitely and ludicrously just. Then Newman reflected that these are mighty mysteries, that possibly he himself was indeed that baleful and barely ment... ...hat always going on in the Fifth Avenue, and other bad things besides. The Mysteries of the Fifth Av- enue! Some one ought to show them up.” “I don’t ... ...stom of his country talked very generously about himself, and unveiled the mysteries of his private history with an unsparing hand. Inevitably, he had... ...t of all. He could not have told you what warrant he had for talking about mysteries; if it had been his habit to express himself in poetic figures he... ...kness, and held out her hand; she looked at him straight with her soft and luminous eyes, and said, without a tremor in her voice, that she was glad t... ...in black, and she wore a cap which, if Newman had been initiated into such mysteries, would have been a sufficient assurance that she was not a French...

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...o form a just opinion on the facts of this matter, which are buried in the mysteries of private life. One circumstance alone seems to give color to th... ...elf,— “a man who dines at Gondreville and spends the night at Cinq-Cygnes! Mysteries indeed!” “Well?” cried the circle around Mademoiselle Beauvisage ... ..., and his masterly power of initiating them into the difficult and elegant mysteries of Parisian society were powerful reasons to bind the two women t... ...oth- ing. But, as you can easily understand, the thought of Marianina is a luminous point to which my eye is forever attached. Shall I love her? Shall... ...ear monsieur, we are almost at the end of all 166 The Deputy of Arcis our mysteries, and soon, I hope, you will see that you have no cause to complai... ...” “Yes; but I confess that faith begins to stagger under the weight of the mysteries with which it is loaded down with- out relief.” “Seeing you at th...

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...e forehead. “You can do it if you try.” “Then there are all the Forces and Mysteries and Ele- ments of Nature,” Roderick went on. “I mean to do the Mo... ...ere Jean-Jacques has a monu- ment. “The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can answer for his will? who can say beforehand that it ‘s s... ...m. She insisted on immediate departure; and, unskilled as they were in the mysteries of foreign (or even of domestic) travel, they had hurried in trem... ...athern apron of the door, to find one’s self confronted with that builded, luminous sub- limity, was a sensation of which the keenness renewed itself ... ...Very little, but that little has favored the prince. I know nothing of the mysteries of the young lady’s heart. It may be a gold-mine, but at any rate... ...ave a cook of her own, amenable possibly to instruction in the Northampton mysteries. He had touched a tender chord; Mrs. Hudson became almost cheerfu...

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... hour the seneschal slept, succumbing to the sun which warms with its most luminous rays the slopes of Roche- Corbon, so much so that one is obliged t... ...eet sample of a plump white thigh, and such voluptuous specimens of hidden mysteries, et cetera, that death seemed sweet to him if he could only taste...

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...s eyes and then receded to an incred- ible distance. His face seemed to be luminous. “Miss Beau- mont,” he said, and splashed up a spray of suspicion.... ...ill glowed yellow and warm. It was the first time Hoopdriver bad dared the mysteries of a ‘first-class’ hotel.’ But that night he was in the mood to d...

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... comprehension, in that receptive glow of the mind, the gift of the clear, luminous and serene weather. That day I had intended to live intensely and ... ...raised my hat. She responded with a slow inclination of the head while her luminous, mistrustful, maiden’s glance seemed to whisper, “What is this one... ... always become convinced that the dreams of sentiment—like the con- soling mysteries of Faith—are invincible; that it is never never reason which gove... ...hen, at the moment, charged with astonishing significance. These are great mysteries, of course. Magic signs. I don’t know in what the sign consisted ... ...mmense gleam of the enlarged estuary. Wisps of mist floated like trails of luminous dust, and in the dazzling reflections of water and vapour, the sho...

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...t is in it by reading it mutely: Mr. Dyer is rather of the opinion, first luminously suggested by Macaulay, that Machiavelli was in earnest, but must... ...t their common sense, re duce them to statistics, and reproduce them in a luminous prose translation which shall tell you at a glance what the poet w... ... for fourteen years the de spair of all the scholars who labored over the mysteries of the Rosetta stone: [ Image not available—ed. ] After five yea... ...nced; he said a man could learn how to correctly handle the subtleties and mysteries and free masonries of any trade by careful reading and study in... ...el and drill and fuse. I have been a surface miner—gold—and I know all its mysteries, and the dialects that belongs with them; and whenever Harte intr...

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...e philosophically sure of his evening; he must be the hero of one of those mysteries with three actors which constitute an opera ball, and are known o... ...over- hangs the horizon in the dog-days, when, though the earth is hot and luminous, the mist makes it indistinct and dim— almost invisible. The gravi... ...es in it to delight a lover, beauties to drive a painter to despair. Those luminous curves, where the shad- ows have a golden tone, that tissue as fir... ...st place, his life was marked by the correct regu- larity under which many mysteries can be hidden; he re- mained in society every night till one in t... ...the deep anxiety caused by Lucien’s career, in which Eve Sechard suspected mysteries, which she dreaded all the more because, during his last visit, L... ...f all men—” “But your father’s,” said Corentin, “was involved in cer- tain mysteries which perhaps you would rather not make public.” “Is it anything ... ...uptibly keeping the darkest secrets which make so many trials impenetrable mysteries. In this, again, lies the strength as well as the weakness of the...

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... Sullivan Smith pro- ceeded to tell her, half in speech, half in dots most luminous, of a civil contention between the English gentleman and him- self... ...r letters were really run- ning well-waters, not a lover’s delusion of the luminous mind of his lady. They sparkled in review and preserved their inte... ...dly. Her talk of her affairs was clearer to him than her curiosity for the mysteries of the League. He gained kind looks besides warm thanks by the pr... ...aginative leap to brightness, of choosing any single period, auspicious or luminous or flattering, since the hour of her first meeting this man, rathe... ...wishes in those days would have lowered her—or frozen. Dacier was a coldly luminous image; still a tolling name; no longer conceivably her mate. Recol...

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...diffidently, but he expanded in Carol’s bookishness, in Miss Sherwin’s vo- luminous praise, in Kennicott’s tolerance of any one who amused his wife. C... ...d she felt expanded, drunk with health, mistress of life. The world was so luminous that she sat down at her rickety little desk in the living-room to... ...-tracks across the lawn, and had 108 Main Street heard him explaining the mysteries of generation, with great audibility and dismaying knowledge. He ... ...sible gods. The night expanded, she was conscious of the universe, and all mysteries stooped down to her. She was jarred out of her ecstasy as the bob... ...eedy boy who had sat in the loft speculating about Carol’s egotism and the mysteries of generation. He was nineteen now, tall, broad, busy, the “town ... ...ent their assumption that she was too ignorant to be admitted to masculine mysteries. She was used to it. But the cabbage and Mrs. Calibree’s monoto- ... ...ness man. It was Hugh that bounced and said “Let’s play”; Olaf that opened luminous blue eyes and agreed “All right,” in con- descending gentleness. I...