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He approached the thermometer, consulted it, and turned to me:"42 degrees centigrade," he said.
Since I didn't say anything, the Canadian stood up and approached me:"We'll do it this evening at nine o'clock," he said.
But, not hearing any sounds, I approached.
The deranged needles would mark contradictory directions as we approached the southern magnetic pole, which doesn't coincide with the South Pole proper.
They didn't move as we approached.
A quarter of an hour later, Conseil approached me, saying:"Is it deeply fascinating, this volume master is reading?""Tremendously fascinating," I replied.
Near evening it approached the Falkland Islands, whose rugged summits I recognized the next day.
Commander Bouguer approached the animal and attacked it with blows from harpoons and blasts from rifles, but without much success because bullets and harpoons crossed its soft flesh as if it were semiliquid jelly.
As the time of her confinement approached he cherished her the more.
Neither Ambrose Pare, applying for the first time since Celsus, after an interval of fifteen centuries, a ligature to an artery, nor Dupuytren, about to open an abscess in the brain, nor Gensoul when he first took away the superior maxilla, had hearts that trembled, hands that shook, minds so strained as Monsieur Bovary when he approached Hippolyte, his tenotome between his fingers.
How many years is it since you approached the holy table?
Then he approached her, and in a soft voice said—"It isn't pleasant, I know; but, after all, no bones are broken, and, since that is the only way that is left for you paying back my money—""But where am I to get any?" said Emma, wringing her hands.
As he approached his mill, Pere Sorel called Julien in his stentorian voice; there was no answer.
As he approached this beautiful girl who had deigned to speak to him, 'I must tell her the truth,' thought Julien, who was growing courageous by dint of his conquered shyness.
As she silently approached the door of the room in which he was, carrying the plate carefully, she found herself face to face with the servant who had hidden the ladder that morning.
He was looking at a magnificent gilt clock, representing a subject that in his opinion was highly indecent, when a most elegant gentleman approached them with an affable expression.
Passing unperceived owing to his lack of importance, Julien approached several groups in turn; he was following Baron Baton at a distance, and wished to hear him talk.
'Jean-Jacques Rousseau,' he replied, 'is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.''He wrote the _Contrat Social_,' said Mathilde in a tone of veneration.
In the meantime, the man whom K. had first approached had pulled himself together and even answered him with a smile.
K. was approached by a security guard, identifiable mainly by his sword, of which the scabbard seemed to be made of aluminium.
As they approached the corridor, the girl said quietly into K.'s ear, "I must seem to think it's very important to show the information-giver in a good light, but you shouldn't doubt what I say, I just want to say the truth.
As K., somewhat agitated, approached the door the deputy director called out, "Oh, you've still not left!"
In the great gateway to the building where the painter lived only one of the two doors was open, a hole had been broken open in the wall by the other door, and as K. approached it a repulsive, yellow, steaming liquid shot out causing some rats to scurry away into the nearby canal.
Nonetheless, he continued unabashed and said, "You remarked earlier that the court cannot be approached with reasoned proofs, you later restricted this to the open court, and now you go so far as to say that an innocent man needs no assistance in court.
I would naturally never attempt, considering that you are so much older and more experienced than I am, to convince you of my opinion; if I have ever unintentionally done so then I beg your forgiveness, but, as you have just said yourself, the circumstances are important enough and it is my belief that my trial needs to be approached with much more vigour than has so far been the case."
As she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her joy, but once at the door she went silent.
The knife and fork fell from the hands of the unwelcome intruder, as the door closed on the retiring figure of Harper; he arose slowly from his seat; listening attentively, he approached the door of the room - opened it - seemed to attend to the retreating footsteps of the other - and, amidst the panic and astonishment of his companions, he closed it again.
Still Birch survived, and still he continued his trade, though compelled to be very guarded in his movements, especially whenever he approached the northern boundaries of the county; or in other words, the neighborhood of the American lines.
Heedless of wet or dry as it lay in his path, with arms swinging to and fro, and with his head bent forward of his body several inches, Harvey Birch approached the piazza, with a gait peculiarly his own.
The Whartons had meditated in silence on the character and visit of their unknown guest for the same period, when the father approached Birch and observed,"I am yet your debtor, Harvey, for the tobacco you were so kind as to bring me from the city."
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